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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.
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 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, 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 ↗
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.
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
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