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Fonteum Care Compare · Hospice

6,943 Medicare-certified hospices, identity-provenanced — including the May 2026 → February 2028 CAHPS measure-removal gap Fonteum maps explicitly.

Agency identity, ownership type, and CMS region for every Medicare-certified hospice — every field traced to the CMS Hospice General Information dataset, with methodology notes on the May 2026 measure change.

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Live snapshot · top 5 states by hospice count
StateHospices
CA2,155
TX1,081
GA259
AZ244
PA183
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Snapshot May 7, 2026·6,943 Medicare-certified hospices · 55 states + territories · 69.0% for-profit (by agency count)·CMS Care Compare — Hospice + CMS POS File·Methodology →·Audit Pack →·Cross-check at Medicare.gov → ↗
Source-modified 2026-01-08 · CAHPS / process quality measures live in a separate CMS dataset (252m-zfp9), not included in this snapshot
Headline figure

The CMS Hospice QRP removed the “Training Family to Care for Patient” CAHPS item from public reporting in May 2026 — and won't restore it until February 2028. Fonteum documents the gap, the timeline, and what remains available across 6,943 Medicare-certified hospices in the current snapshot (69.0% for-profit by agency count).

Sources: CMS Hospice Care Compare May 2026 refresh note (Training Family measure removal); Hospice Data Dictionary May 2025 – May 2026; Alliance for Care at Home Facts and Figures 2025 (third-party industry report cites a higher patient-volume share — Fonteum uses the PDC agency-count grounded figure).

National coverage

Medicare-Certified Hospices

Every hospice in the CMS Hospice General Information dataset — identity, ownership, certification, region.

6,943
Quality reporting

CAHPS + Process Measures

Patient and family experience scores plus care-process measures live in a separate CMS dataset (252m-zfp9) and are not included in this snapshot.

Deferred
Methodology transparency

Documented Measure Gap

The ‘Training Family to Care’ CAHPS item is suppressed May 2026 → February 2028. Fonteum flags this explicitly per QRP methodology.

Feb 2028
State coverage — top 10 by hospice count

55 states + territories with Medicare-certified hospices

Every state with enough Medicare-certified hospices to report has its own page; the data is also in the snapshot and audit-pack export.

Hospice providers by state
  • Alabama
  • Alaska
  • Arizona
  • Arkansas
  • Colorado
  • Connecticut
  • Florida
  • Georgia
  • Idaho
  • Illinois
  • Indiana
  • Iowa
  • Kansas
  • Kentucky
  • Louisiana
  • Maryland
  • Michigan
  • Minnesota
  • Mississippi
  • Missouri
  • Montana
  • Nebraska
  • Nevada
  • New Hampshire
  • New Jersey
  • New Mexico
  • North Carolina
  • North Dakota
  • Ohio
  • Oklahoma
  • Oregon
  • Pennsylvania
  • South Carolina
  • South Dakota
  • Tennessee
  • Texas
  • Utah
  • Vermont
  • Virginia
  • Washington
  • West Virginia
  • Wisconsin
  • Wyoming
StateHospices
CA2,155
TX1,081
GA259
AZ244
PA183
NV179
MI172
OH168
IL147
MO133

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