Appendix D - SAMPLE CROSSWALK

Crosswalk

Every data submission that your CAHPS^®3.0H Survey vendors sends to OPM must be accompanied by a "crosswalk" that will allow OPM to map your plan's data to the appropriate FEHB Sub-Code. This is the only way that OPM will be able to identify submissions and allocate data correctly. The crosswalk must include the following information:

• Member-level file name
• Summary-level file name
• NCQA Submission ID
• NCQA Plan Name
• FEHB Sub-Code
• FEHB Plan Name

The Member-level and Summary-level filenames must follow the NCQA naming conventions.

The table below shows an example of a crosswalk for a vendor submission.

• Sample row 1 shows the most straightforward example where it is a one-to-one mapping between the NCQA Sub ID and FEHB Sub-Code.
• Sample rows 2 and 3 show how the crosswalk should appear when one set of NCQA data is mapped to two FEHB Sub-Codes. In this case, only one member-level file and one summary-level file should be submitted to OPM.
• Sample rows 4 and 5 show how the crosswalk should appear when two sets of NCQA data are mapped to one FEHB Sub-Code. In this case, two member-level files and two summary-level files must be submitted to OPM.