{ "study": { "slug": "hospice-provider-availability-by-state-2026", "title": "Hospice Provider Availability by State: 6,943 Medicare-Certified Providers, 69% For-Profit", "url": "https://fonteum.com/research/hospice-provider-availability-by-state-2026", "methodology_version": "hospice-availability/v1" }, "data_as_of": "2026-05-25", "temporal_coverage": "2026-05-25", "sources": [ { "name": "CMS Care Compare Hospice", "publisher": "U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services", "url": "https://data.cms.gov/provider-data/dataset/yc9t-dgbk", "release_date": "2026-05-25", "retrieved_at": "2026-05-25", "license": "U.S. Government Works (17 U.S.C. §105)" } ], "headline": { "published": "2026-06-06", "total_providers": 6943, "states_covered": 51, "fifty_states_plus_dc_total": 6894, "for_profit_count": 4790, "for_profit_pct": 69, "non_profit_count": 815, "non_profit_pct": 11.7, "government_count": 75, "government_pct": 1.1, "other_unknown_count": 1263, "other_unknown_pct": 18.2, "top_two_states_pct": 47 }, "sections": [ { "id": "ownership", "label": "Ownership breakdown (CMS categories)", "columns": [ "ownership", "providers", "pct_of_national_total" ], "rows": [ { "ownership": "For-Profit", "providers": 4790, "pct_of_national_total": 69 }, { "ownership": "Non-Profit", "providers": 815, "pct_of_national_total": 11.7 }, { "ownership": "Other / Not Reported", "providers": 452, "pct_of_national_total": 6.5 }, { "ownership": "Government", "providers": 75, "pct_of_national_total": 1.1 }, { "ownership": "Combination Gov. & Non-Profit", "providers": 28, "pct_of_national_total": 0.4 }, { "ownership": "Unknown (null)", "providers": 783, "pct_of_national_total": 11.3 } ] }, { "id": "by_state", "label": "Medicare-certified hospices by state (50 states + DC)", "columns": [ "state", "state_name", "total_providers", "for_profit", "non_profit", "government", "other_unknown", "for_profit_pct" ], "rows": [ { "state": "CA", "state_name": "California", "total_providers": 2155, 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8, "non_profit": 3, "government": 0, "other_unknown": 6, "for_profit_pct": 47.1 }, { "state": "SD", "state_name": "South Dakota", "total_providers": 17, "for_profit": 7, "non_profit": 4, "government": 1, "other_unknown": 5, "for_profit_pct": 41.2 }, { "state": "ND", "state_name": "North Dakota", "total_providers": 13, "for_profit": 6, "non_profit": 6, "government": 0, "other_unknown": 1, "for_profit_pct": 46.2 }, { "state": "RI", "state_name": "Rhode Island", "total_providers": 11, "for_profit": 5, "non_profit": 2, "government": 0, "other_unknown": 4, "for_profit_pct": 45.5 }, { "state": "HI", "state_name": "Hawaii", "total_providers": 11, "for_profit": 4, "non_profit": 6, "government": 0, "other_unknown": 1, "for_profit_pct": 36.4 }, { "state": "DE", "state_name": "Delaware", "total_providers": 11, "for_profit": 6, "non_profit": 4, "government": 0, "other_unknown": 1, "for_profit_pct": 54.5 }, { "state": "VT", "state_name": "Vermont", "total_providers": 9, "for_profit": 3, "non_profit": 4, "government": 0, "other_unknown": 2, "for_profit_pct": 33.3 }, { "state": "AK", "state_name": "Alaska", "total_providers": 6, "for_profit": 3, "non_profit": 1, "government": 1, "other_unknown": 1, "for_profit_pct": 50 }, { "state": "DC", "state_name": "District of Columbia", "total_providers": 5, "for_profit": 3, "non_profit": 1, "government": 0, "other_unknown": 1, "for_profit_pct": 60 } ] } ], "limitations": [ "Certification is not the same as active operations. A Medicare certification does not guarantee a provider is actively enrolling patients; CMS revocation data is updated separately and is not joined here.", "1263 records (18.2%) carry an ownership classification of \"Other / Not Reported\" or null and are excluded from the for-profit percentage, so the reported percentages are a floor computed on a subset.", "No quality outcomes. This file counts certifications and classifies ownership type; it carries no patient-level quality measures, star ratings, or HQRP scores.", "Single snapshot. Figures reflect the 2026-05-25 CMS snapshot; certifications change as hospices are approved, terminated, or revoked.", "Territories excluded from the state analysis. The 50-states-plus-DC total is 6894; the remaining 49 territory providers bring the full national file to 6943.", "Fonteum does not rate, rank, score, or recommend any individual hospice provider. This study describes market structure at the state level using federal data." ], "reproducible_sql": null, "license": "U.S. Government Works (17 U.S.C. §105)", "generated_by": "Fonteum — https://fonteum.com", "notes": "Aggregate, source-traced figures frozen to the as-of date above. Re-derive by running the published query against the named source file; no per-person records are included." }