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CMS-published quality data for facility-based care.

State-level snapshots of CMS Care Compare datasets — nursing-home quality, home-health quality, dialysis quality, and hospice provider availability. Each snapshot cites the publishing CMS dataset, the publication date, and the limitations the agency itself documents.

CMS Care Compare

STUDIES IN THIS DESK · 1

May 2026
Hospice Provider Availability by State 2026 — CMS Care Compare State-Level Snapshot
How Medicare-certified hospice provider count, ownership mix, and recent-certification share distribute across the United States — based on the CMS Care Compare Hospice General Information dataset (6,943 providers, snapshot May 2026). The Hospice General Information dataset does not publish an overall star rating; this report cites provider availability, not quality.
- CMS Care Compare
- Hospice General Information
6,943 recordsCSV ↓

See also

/research → All desks, latest grid, dataset signal.
/sources → The generated source-catalog subset — documented datasets Fonteum cites.
/methodology → Documented sourcing, publisher cadence, observed freshness, corrections.

What’s on file, by the numbers

Platform snapshot · 2026-08-11

13.4Mproviders & companiesProviders, organizations, owners, and facilities on file

26.2Msource-linked factsSource-linked field facts in the dated platform snapshot

90sources with dataDistinct snapshot source IDs with at least one positive record count

73fresh sourcesDistinct source IDs whose latest positive-data snapshot falls within the preceding 45 days

111sources integratedActive registry rows; integration does not establish a load

13state Medicaid jurisdictionsDistinct states represented in the state-exclusions serving table

Integrated, with-data, and fresh-observation counts are separate. No platform-wide source-completeness count is published. Completeness is source-specific and must be evaluated against the named source's expected scope. State coverage is a separate jurisdiction measure.

Source authority is record-specific

Use the issuer named on the record.

Fonteum spans federal, state, and global public publishers. A source page or returned record identifies its issuer and dataset where that metadata is available. A platform registry count does not assign every page to one authority or establish loaded, fresh, or complete coverage.

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Reproducible by design

Inspect the evidence each published figure actually supplies.

Source and date

Research pages expose the named public file and observation date where those fields are available. Source-file SHA-256 coverage is separate; facts do not currently link deterministically to signatures.

Available derivation

Studies with a retained release and committed derivation link the SQL or method used. Other studies state the evidence and reproduction limits they actually have.

Daily observations

Dated table row-count observations can detect local drift. They do not imply that an upstream publisher released or Fonteum ingested new data that day.

Named medical review

Reviewed by Jennifer Montecillo, MD, medical reviewer. Non-practicing medical reviewer.

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