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Medicare Advantage Star Ratings
CMS's one-to-five star quality ratings for Medicare Advantage and Part D plans, with the underlying measures and the methodology to trend them across years. The quality score that drives plan bonuses and member choice.
What Vlada adds: Preserves the publisher data, normalizes schema eras and identifiers, and connects the product to compatible healthcare entities with measured join coverage.
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- 9
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- Varies by publisher release / annual
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- 2007-2027
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Publishers: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
What's inside
MA Star Ratings — per-measure value + star
The measure-level layer beneath the summary star: each contract's value and star on each measure.
grain: One row per (contract_id, measure_id, rating_year) — the per-measure raw value plus earned 1-5 star.
592.7K rows
MA Star Ratings — cross-year measure crosswalk
The map that lets a measure be trended across CMS renumbering (e.g.
grain: One row per cross-year measure-identity edge (from to); crosswalk_type identity/renamed/etc; confidence certain/derived_name.
53.1K rows
Medicare Advantage Star Ratings (summary)
The contract's CMS Star rating (summary_star, 1.0-5.0).
grain: One row per (contract_id, part, payment_year) on is_current — CMS Star ratings summary. CERTIFIED 2026-06-03.
36.0K rows
MA Star Ratings — Categorical Adjustment Index
The Categorical Adjustment Index that adjusts summary stars for low-income/disabled enrollment mix.
grain: One row per (contract_id, part, fac_category, rating_year) — CAI input (final adjustment category plus LIS/DE/disabled mix).
32.7K rows
Medicare Advantage Star Ratings (recomputed)
CMS's one-to-five star quality ratings for Medicare Advantage and Part D plans, with the underlying measures and the methodology to trend them across years. The quality score that drives plan bonuses and member choice.
26.8K rows
MA Star Ratings — contract metadata
Contract-level Stars metadata (org type, parent org, marketing name).
grain: One row per (contract_id, rating_year) — org type, parent org, marketing name, SNP flag.
14.1K rows
MA Star Ratings — measure cut points
The annual CMS cut points (thresholds) per measure, star-level and org-subtype.
grain: One row per (measure_id, star_level, org_subtype, rating_year) — the CMS threshold converting a raw measure value into a star.
3.0K rows
MA Star Ratings — measure dimension
The per-year measure dictionary.
grain: One row per (measure_id, rating_year) — measure inventory plus CMIT #, canonical_name, weight, direction, data source, domain.
538 rows
MA Star Ratings — methodology dimension
The year-by-year methodology record that drives the recompute and the AEP/payment-year mapping for the rating tables.
grain: One row per rating_year — era flags (CAI active, Tukey active, hold-harmless-expanded), reward-factor formula, performance_year and payment_year, tech-notes sha.
13 rows