Datasets / Medicare Hospice Data


Medicare Hospice Data

Published By U.S. Department of Health & Human Services

Issued over 9 years ago

US
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Summary

Type of release
a one-off release of a set of related datasets

Data Licence
Not Applicable

Content Licence
Creative Commons CCZero

Verification
automatically awarded

Description

More Medicare beneficiaries are taking advantage of the quality and compassionate care provided through the hospice benefit. As greater numbers of beneficiaries have availed themselves of the benefit, the mix of hospice patients has changed, with relatively fewer cancer patients as a percentage of total patients.