Medicare Hospice Care Utilization and Payments by Provider and State

Medicare Post-Acute Care Utilization - Hospice data details beneficiary characteristics, service use, and payments at hospice providers. The dataset is aggregated at provider, state, and national levels. It is published by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services and was last updated in December 2025.

Use Cases

• Analyze payment information variations across hospice providers and states to identify cost drivers.
• Model beneficiary demographic and clinical characteristics to understand service utilization patterns.
• Track professional and paraprofessional service utilization trends at the national level over time.

Strengths

• Data is provided by the authoritative U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.
• Aggregation at provider, state, and national levels enables multi-scale analysis.
• Dataset was updated in December 2025, indicating recent maintenance.

Limitations

• Specific row count, column names, and sample data are unavailable for assessing scale and structure.
• The license is listed as 'other-license-specified', requiring users to review terms before use.
• Lack of explicit time range for the data limits temporal trend analysis.

Provenance

Source

U.S. Department of Health & Human Services

Freshness

Last updated on 2025-12-11.

Geography

National, with state and provider-level aggregations.