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CMS Care Compare — Hospice

CMS Care Compare — Hospice General Information

U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services · Tier-1 · research-only (never on individual profiles)

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Source:CMS Care Compare — Hospice·Snapshot May 2026Open official source ↗

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.

What Fonteum uses it for

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.

What this dataset answers

Research and data questions this source supports.

  • 01Build a state-level hospice agency directory with ownership type and Medicare certification date sourced directly from CMS.
  • 02Cross-reference hospice CCNs against the OIG LEIE to identify excluded agencies before referral or contracting.
  • 03Surface the Medicare-certified hospices within a ZIP radius for a referral planning application.
  • 04Support post-acute transitions research by mapping hospice agency locations against the CMS Care Compare nursing home dataset.
  • 05Run 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)

Fields used

Per-field display contract.

Every field below has a `display_allowed` flag in the §94 provenance schema. Write-locked fields are captured to provenance for audit but never rendered on profile pages.

Renders on profile

12 fields
cms_certification_number_ccnCCN
facility_nameFacility name
address_line_1Address line 1
address_line_2Address line 2
citytownCity
stateState (USPS)
zip_codeZIP code
countyparishCounty / parish
telephone_numberPhone number
cms_regionCMS region
ownership_typeOwnership type
certification_dateMedicare certification date
Limitations

What 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.
Source metadata

Authority, license, refresh cadence.

Authority

U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

Tier

Tier-1 · research-only (never on individual profiles)

Refresh cadence

Quarterly aligned to the Hospice QRP cycle.

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 ↗

Official URL

https://data.cms.gov/provider-data/dataset/yc9t-dgbk

Attribution requirement

Source: CMS Care Compare · Hospice General Information (yc9t-dgbk) · Last checked {YYYY-MM-DD}

ToS & usage notes

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.

Sample provenance

What a single field looks like in the graph.

A worked example. Every field surfaced from this source carries this shape of provenance line — source · last checked · display rule · confidence (when applicable).

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

How to access

Official API, bulk download, and Fonteum endpoints.

Official API / download

https://data.cms.gov/provider-data/api/1/datastore/query/yc9t-dgbk/0 ↗

Bulk download

https://data.cms.gov/provider-data/dataset/yc9t-dgbk ↗

Fonteum surface

https://fonteum.com/care-compare/hospice →

Frequently asked

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 at data.cms.gov/provider-data/dataset/yc9t-dgbk. 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 (yc9t-dgbk) 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.
Related

Where this source already shows up.

Research studies citing this source

  • Hospice Provider Availability by State 2026 — CMS Care Compare State-Level Snapshot →

Related sources in the graph

  • /sources/cms-pos →
  • /sources/oig-leie →
  • /sources/cms-care-compare-hh →

Per-source methodology: /methodology/care-compare-hospice →

See also
  • /sources → The full source library — every dataset Fonteum cites.
  • /data-provenance → The provider graph — pipeline diagram, source-family clusters, field-level provenance examples, display rules.
  • /methodology → Network-wide sourcing, refresh cadence, and corrections policy.
  • /editorial-policy → Independence, sourcing, conflicts, corrections, retractions.

The substrate, by the numbers

9.2Mgraph entitiesProviders, organizations, owners, and facilities
15.7Mlinked identifiersNPIs, CCNs, LEIs and more, resolved to entities
5Mgraph edgesSource-attested relationships between entities
44federal source familiesDistinct CMS, OIG, HRSA, FDA and peer datasets
35dataset pagesCitable, downloadable /data catalog pages
56reproducible studiesEach shipping the SQL behind its figures

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