Provider Data Catalog

Home Health Care - National Data

The national averages for critical quality measures of Home Health Agencies.

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Dates as CMS lists them in its catalog. CMS last changed the data itself on Sep 21, 2026.

Columns 40

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

ColumnWhat it meansType
Countrycountrytext
Quality of Patient Care Star Ratingquality_of_patient_care_star_ratingtext
Star Rating 1 Percentagestar_rating_1_percentagetext
Star Rating 1.5 Percentagestar_rating_15_percentagetext
Star Rating 2 Percentagestar_rating_2_percentagetext
Star Rating 2.5 Percentagestar_rating_25_percentagetext
Star Rating 3 Percentagestar_rating_3_percentagetext
Star Rating 3.5 Percentagestar_rating_35_percentagetext
Star Rating 4 Percentagestar_rating_4_percentagetext
Star Rating 4.5 Percentagestar_rating_45_percentagetext
Star Rating 5 Percentagestar_rating_5_percentagetext
How often the home health team began their patients' care in a timely mannerhow_often_the_home_health_team_began_their_patients_care_in_d440text
How often the home health team determined whether patients received a flu shot for the current flu seasonhow_often_the_home_health_team_determined_whether_patients__4505text
How often patients got better at walking or moving aroundhow_often_patients_got_better_at_walking_or_moving_aroundtext
How often patients got better at getting in and out of bedhow_often_patients_got_better_at_getting_in_and_out_of_bedtext
How often patients got better at bathinghow_often_patients_got_better_at_bathingtext
How often patients' breathing improvedhow_often_patients_breathing_improvedtext
How often patients got better at taking their drugs correctly by mouthhow_often_patients_got_better_at_taking_their_drugs_correct_bd88text
Changes in Skin Integrity post-acute care: pressure ulcer/injurychanges_in_skin_integrity_postacute_care_pressure_ulcerinjurytext
How often physician-recommended actions to address medication issues were completely timelyhow_often_physicianrecommended_actions_to_address_medicatio_cc88text
Percent of Residents Experiencing One or More Falls with Major Injurypercent_of_residents_experiencing_one_or_more_falls_with_ma_34b8text
Discharge Function Scoredischarge_function_scoretext
Transfer of Health Information to the Providertransfer_of_health_information_to_the_providertext
Transfer of Health Information to the Patienttransfer_of_health_information_to_the_patienttext
PPR Number of HHAs that Performed Better than the National Observed Rateppr_number_of_hhas_that_performed_better_than_the_national__ad82text
PPR Number of HHAs that Performed No Different than the National Observed Rateppr_number_of_hhas_that_performed_no_different_than_the_nat_a986text
PPR Number of HHAs that Performed Worse than the National Observed Rateppr_number_of_hhas_that_performed_worse_than_the_national_o_f73atext
PPR Number of HHAs that Have Too Few Cases for Public Reportingppr_number_of_hhas_that_have_too_few_cases_for_public_reportingtext
PPR National Observed Rateppr_national_observed_ratetext
DTC Number of HHAs that Performed Better than the National Observed Ratedtc_number_of_hhas_that_performed_better_than_the_national__64e2text
DTC Number of HHAs that Performed No Different than the National Observed Ratedtc_number_of_hhas_that_performed_no_different_than_the_nat_f19ftext
DTC Number of HHAs that Performed Worse than the National Observed Ratedtc_number_of_hhas_that_performed_worse_than_the_national_o_9aa2text
DTC Number of HHAs that Have Too Few Cases for Public Reportingdtc_number_of_hhas_that_have_too_few_cases_for_public_reportingtext
DTC National Observed Ratedtc_national_observed_ratetext
PPH Number of HHAs that Performed Better than the National Observed Ratepph_number_of_hhas_that_performed_better_than_the_national__9c83text
PPH Number of HHAs that Performed No Different than the National Observed Ratepph_number_of_hhas_that_performed_no_different_than_the_nat_93f5text
PPH Number of HHAs that Performed Worse than the National Observed Ratepph_number_of_hhas_that_performed_worse_than_the_national_o_1890text
PPH Number of HHAs that Have Too Few Cases for Public Reportingpph_number_of_hhas_that_have_too_few_cases_for_public_reportingtext
PPH National Observed Ratepph_national_observed_ratetext
How much Medicare spends on an episode of care at this agency, compared to Medicare spending across all agencies nationallyhow_much_medicare_spends_on_an_episode_of_care_at_this_agen_56e6text

At a glance

Catalog
Provider Data Catalog
Publisher
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Rows
1
Columns
40
State column
None found
Topics
Home health and hospice, Quality and ratings
Contact
homehealthqualityquestions@cms.hhs.gov

API

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

https://data.cms.gov/provider-data/api/1/datastore/query/97z8-de96/0?limit=10

CMS's description

The national averages for critical quality measures of Home Health Agencies.

The summary at the top is the first sentence of this description. Record id pdc:97z8-de96. This record as JSON.

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