ResDAC Free CMS Data Request Assistance
Research Data Assistance Center, funded by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS-funded expert help, at no charge, for researchers identifying which Medicare or Medicaid data files they need and preparing a data request that will actually be approved.
- Indicative award
- Not a cash award (not a cash award)The assistance is free of charge. Separate CMS fees apply to the data itself; ResDAC points to CMS fee information rather than publishing amounts.
- Timing
- Rolling / openNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Support is available continuously; there is no application round.
- Who can apply
- Doctoral candidate, Postdoctoral, Early-career faculty, Mid-career & senior, Any faculty rank, Practitioner
- Eligibility
- Assistance is open to researchers pursuing CMS data; the project must fit CMS's definition of research. The support is free, but obtaining the datasets themselves carries separate CMS fees for Research Identifiable Data.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- medicare and medicaid claims data · data request support · research identifiable files
- Apply at
- https://resdac.org/
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. Funder link last confirmed to resolve on 2026-09-25.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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