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CMS Care Compare — HospiceCMS Care Compare — Hospice General Information
U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services · Tier-1 · research-only (never on individual profiles)
Agency-level identity + ownership table for ~6,943 Medicare-certified hospices (current 2026-05-07 snapshot). Identity (CCN, name, address, region) plus ownership type. The companion long-format Hospice Provider Data dataset (252m-zfp9) carries CAHPS Hospice Survey scores + process measures and is deferred to a follow-on wave.
How this source shows up on Fonteum.
Enrichment for hospice identity (POS QIES already covers hospices as PRVDR_CTGRY_CD=12; Care Compare adds ownership_type and cms_region). Drives the brand-hub `/care-compare/hospice` module. The May 2026 Training-Family-to-Care measure removal is documented in the methodology; quality-measure ingestion is a follow-on wave.
What this source does NOT mean
This is not a directory of individual hospice clinicians — agencies, not staff. The dataset carries no star rating today; quality measures live in the separate Provider Data dataset and require pivoting from long-format rows.
Research and data questions this source supports.
- Build a state-level hospice agency directory with ownership type and Medicare certification date sourced directly from CMS.
- Cross-reference hospice CCNs against the OIG LEIE to identify excluded agencies before referral or contracting.
- Surface the Medicare-certified hospices within a ZIP radius for a referral planning application.
- Support post-acute transitions research by mapping hospice agency locations against the CMS Care Compare nursing home dataset.
- Run an analysis of hospice ownership concentration by CMS region — for-profit vs non-profit distribution by agency count.
Dataset size: 6,943 agencies (May 2026 snapshot)
Per-field display contract.
Fields listed below show their configured `display_allowed` flag from the §94 provenance schema. Fields marked write-locked are captured for audit and are not rendered on profile pages.
Renders on profile
12 fieldsWhat we can’t infer from this source.
- No star rating in this dataset — quality measures live in the separate Provider Data dataset (252m-zfp9) and are deferred to a follow-on wave.
- May 2026 → February 2028 'Training Family to Care for Patient' CAHPS measure removed from public reporting per the CMS Hospice QRP announcement. Brand-hub module flags this gap explicitly.
- For-profit share figure: PDC General Information returns 69% by agency count (4,790/6,943). The Alliance for Care at Home Facts and Figures 2025 cites 84%, which is plausibly a patient-volume share; Fonteum cites both with attribution.
- Non-state jurisdictions present (PR, GU, VI, MP, AS) — flag explicitly.
Authority, license, publisher cadence.
Authority
U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Tier
Tier-1 · research-only (never on individual profiles)
Publisher / configured cadence
Declared or configured cadence: Quarterly aligned to the Hospice QRP cycle. Not evidence of the latest loaded source date.
License
U.S. government public-domain works (17 U.S.C. § 105). Attribution required: 'Source: CMS Care Compare · Hospice General Information (yc9t-dgbk) · Snapshot {YYYY-MM-DD}'. License ↗
Attribution requirement
Source: CMS Care Compare · Hospice General Information (yc9t-dgbk) · Last checked {YYYY-MM-DD}
What the source allows.
U.S. government public-domain works. PDC publishes the dataset at data.cms.gov/provider-data/dataset/yc9t-dgbk with explicit redistribution rights. Attribution must include the dataset slug + snapshot date.
What a single field looks like in the graph.
This worked example shows the provenance shape used when a surfaced field has populated source, last-checked, display-rule, and confidence metadata. Individual fields may omit unavailable values.
Field
Ownership-type distribution (snapshot 2026-05-07)
Sample value
6,943 hospices; 4,790 For-Profit (69%); 815 Non-Profit; 452 Other
Provenance line
Source: CMS Care Compare · Hospice General Information (yc9t-dgbk) · Snapshot 2026-05-07 · Display rule: ownership_type renders on /care-compare/hospice module + per-hospice pages; for-profit share grounded against PDC count, with Alliance for Care at Home figure cited separately
Official API, bulk download, and Fonteum endpoints.
Official API / download
Bulk download
Fonteum surface
Common questions about CMS Care Compare — Hospice.
- What data does the CMS Care Compare Hospice dataset contain?
- The CMS Care Compare Hospice General Information dataset contains identity and ownership data for approximately 6,943 Medicare-certified hospice agencies. Fields include CCN, facility name, address, county, telephone, CMS region, ownership type, and Medicare certification date. Quality measures (CAHPS Hospice Survey scores) are in a separate CMS provider data file and are deferred to a future Fonteum update.
- How many Medicare-certified hospices are in the United States?
- The May 2026 CMS Care Compare snapshot contains 6,943 Medicare-certified hospice agencies. According to that snapshot, approximately 69% of agencies by count are for-profit (4,790 of 6,943). The Alliance for Care at Home Facts and Figures 2025 cites 84% for-profit by patient-volume share, reflecting higher case volumes at larger for-profit hospice chains.
- Where can I download the CMS hospice data?
- CMS publishes the Hospice General Information dataset in the CMS Provider Data Catalog. It is updated quarterly aligned to the Hospice Quality Reporting Program (QRP) cycle. The data is U.S. government public-domain — free to download and redistribute with attribution.
- What happened to the CMS Training Family to Care for Patient CAHPS measure?
- In May 2026, CMS removed the 'Training Family to Care for Patient' CAHPS Hospice Survey measure from public reporting, effective through February 2028. This change was announced in the Hospice QRP cycle and affects national quality measure benchmarks. Fonteum's methodology page for this dataset documents the removal inline.
- Does this dataset include hospice quality scores?
- The Hospice General Information file does not include CAHPS Hospice quality measure scores. CAHPS scores are in the separate CMS Provider Data Hospice datasets. Fonteum's hospice module currently surfaces the identity and ownership data from the General Information file; quality measure ingestion is a planned follow-on update.
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