The
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is pleased to announce the second
annual release of the Medicare Hospice Utilization and Payment Public Use File
(Hospice PUF). The Hospice PUF is a comprehensive resource for information on
hospice utilization, payments, submitted charges, diagnoses, and beneficiary
demographics organized by hospice provider and state. With this data, it is now
possible to analyze trends in the delivery of hospice care, as well as
variation across geographic regions or individual hospice providers. The
Hospice PUF also includes a number of metrics on hospice beneficiary
demographics and sites of service to facilitate analyses of differences in the
patient population across providers.
The
public data set includes information on 4,232 hospice providers, over 1.38
million hospice beneficiaries, and over $15.9 billion in Medicare payments for
2015. It does not contain any individually identifiable information about
Medicare beneficiaries.
For
more information visit the Hospice
Utilization and Payment Public Use File website.
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