Medicare Hospice Enrollment Records with Ownership Linkage

Offering enrollment information for all hospices currently enrolled in Medicare, sourced from the Provider Enrollment, Chain and Ownership System (PECOS). It includes details such as legal business name, doing business as name, organization type, and address. The data is intended to be used with a corresponding Hospice All Owners dataset to identify ownership and managerial control.

Use Cases

• Link hospice enrollment records by legal business name to ownership data for analyzing ownership concentration in the hospice sector.
• Analyze the distribution of hospice organization types across different geographic regions using the address and organization type fields.
• Validate or update provider directories by cross-referencing the doing business as name and legal business name with other Medicare administrative files.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from the authoritative Provider Enrollment, Chain and Ownership System (PECOS).
• Covers all hospices currently enrolled in Medicare, providing a complete census.
• Includes explicit linkage guidance to a companion dataset for ownership analysis.

Limitations

• The specific number of rows (hospices) and columns (features) is not provided.
• Data completeness for individual fields like address or organization type is not verified.
• The description indicates the dataset is not self-contained and requires a separate file for ownership details.

Provenance

Source

United States Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

Collection Method

Gathered from the Provider Enrollment, Chain and Ownership System (PECOS).

Time Range

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Freshness

The metadata was last updated on 2026-02-23, indicating active maintenance.

Geography

United States (implied by Medicare coverage)