Provider Data Catalog

Complications and Deaths - National

Complications and deaths - national data.

Freshness

Last posted
Period covered
Update frequency

Dates as CMS lists them in its catalog. CMS last changed the data itself on Sep 10, 2026.

Columns 10

The Provider Data Catalog lists only column headers in machine-readable form. Full definitions are in the data dictionary.

ColumnWhat it meansType
Measure IDmeasure_idtext
Measure Namemeasure_nametext
National Ratenational_ratetext
Number of Hospitals Worsenumber_of_hospitals_worsetext
Number of Hospitals Samenumber_of_hospitals_sametext
Number of Hospitals Betternumber_of_hospitals_bettertext
Number of Hospitals Too Fewnumber_of_hospitals_too_fewtext
Footnotefootnotetext
Start Datestart_datetext
End Dateend_datetext

At a glance

Catalog
Provider Data Catalog
Publisher
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Rows
20
Columns
10
State column
None found
Topics
Hospitals

API

Free, no key needed. This request returns the first 10 rows as JSON:

https://data.cms.gov/provider-data/api/1/datastore/query/qqw3-t4ie/0?limit=10

CMS's description

Complications and deaths - national data. This data set includes national-level data for the hip/knee complication measure, the CMS Patient Safety Indicators, and 30-day death rates.

The summary at the top is the first sentence of this description. Record id pdc:qqw3-t4ie. This record as JSON.

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