Datasets / Basic Stand Alone Medicare Hospice Beneficiary PUF


Basic Stand Alone Medicare Hospice Beneficiary PUF

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

Issued over 9 years ago

US
beta

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

This release contains the Basic Stand Alone (BSA) Hospice Beneficiary Public Use Files (PUF) with information from Medicare hospice claims. The CMS BSA Hospice Beneficiary PUF is a beneficiary-level file in which each record is a beneficiary who had at least one hospice claim from a random 5 percent sample of Medicare beneficiaries. There are some demographic and claim-related variables provided in this PUF.