This repository is a collection of technical documentation made publicly available by US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ("CMS") ("CMS") on their website. It's intended for software engineers looking to implement, for example, file parsing for CMS' plan communications (BEQR, MONMEMD, and the like). Only the latest version of the PCUG specification is available on their site, making any previous release very difficult to find, hence this.
I am in no way affiliated with neither CMS nor the US government, nor has any entity of the US government endorsed this project. All I want is to reduce the burden on healthcare companies working with the US government to provide medical care for those who need it most.
Instead of links I've included the actual files here because I hate dead links, and, quite frankly, I don't trust DOGE to not break everything.
- Except as noted, all files in the
us_federal_government_docsdirectory are works of the U.S. Federal Government. Under 17 U.S.C. §105 these are public domain. I did not create these, nor do I claim any rights on these files or their contents. - Anything else is governed by the 3-Clause BSD License. For details, see the
LICENSEfile in thecodedirectory.
Please feel free to help! To avoid copyright issues, there are strict rules. There are two broad categories of contribution:
You understand and represent that your contribution is a publication of the U.S. Federal Government that is in the public domain. Publicly available does not mean public domain.
- It must be from the federal government. Documents originating from a state government, or a government contractor, are not allowed unless written, verifiable proof of authorization to distribute is also provided.
- The document or its originating site must not contain copyright notice or any other notice that restricts distribution.
- Files that are not pure text (e.g. PDFs and images) must contain the CMS logo and/or that of another US Federal Government agency such as HHS.
Any contributions not originating from the US federal government are automatically governed by the BSD-3 license. You understand and represent that you have the authority to release your contributions under this license. Either the contributions must be your own, from a source with compatible licensing, or you must provide written, verifiable proof that you have the authority to do so.