Provider Data Catalog

Home Health Care - State by State Data

State averages of several home health agency quality measures for Home Health Agencies.

Freshness

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Period covered
Update frequency

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

Columns 25

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

ColumnWhat it meansType
Statestatetext
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
How much Medicare spends on an episode of care by agencies in this state, compared to Medicare spending across all agencies nationallyhow_much_medicare_spends_on_an_episode_of_care_by_agencies__e8d7text

At a glance

Catalog
Provider Data Catalog
Publisher
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Rows
55
Columns
25
State column
state
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/tee5-ixt5/0?limit=10

To keep only one state, filter on the state column.

CMS's description

State averages of several home health agency quality measures for Home Health Agencies.

The summary at the top is the first sentence of this description. Record id pdc:tee5-ixt5. This record as JSON.

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