Medicare Home Health Patients and Visits by State
The Medicare Home Health Patients and Visits by State data provides a high-level overview of how Medicare beneficiaries use home health services across states, territories, and the District of Columbia.
Freshness
- Last posted
- Period covered
- Jan 1, 2025 to Dec 31, 2025
- Update frequency
- Annually
Dates as CMS lists them in its catalog.
Columns 6
| Column | What it means | Type |
|---|---|---|
StateState | The name of the state, territory, or district for which the data are aggregated. | string |
ReimbursementReimbursement | The total claims paid by Original Medicare (fee for service). | number |
PatientsPatients | Total number of patients in the state, territory, or district. | number |
VisitsVisits | Total number of home health visits in the state, territory, or district. | number |
Average Reimbursement Per PatientAverage Reimbursement Per Patient | Total claims paid by Original Medicare divided by the total number of patients. | number |
Average Visits Per PatientAverage Visits Per Patient | Total number of home health visits divided by the total number ofpatients. | number |
No column matches that filter.
At a glance
- Catalog
- data.cms.gov
- Publisher
- Office of Enterprise Data and Analytics (OEDA)
- Rows
- 55
- Columns
- 6
- State column
State
API
Free, no key needed. This request returns the first 10 rows as JSON:
https://data.cms.gov/data-api/v1/dataset/dc1392f2-64ad-431b-9a2f-47217e1cf094/data?size=10
To keep only one state, filter on the State column.
Versions 9
The newest version is the one linked above. Older releases stay on the official site.
- 2025-01-01posted Sep 1, 2026
- 2024-01-01posted Jun 8, 2026
- 2023-01-01posted Jun 8, 2026
- 2022-01-01posted Jun 8, 2026
- 2021-01-01posted Jun 8, 2026
- 2020-01-01posted Jun 8, 2026
- 2019-01-01posted Jun 8, 2026
- 2018-01-01posted Jun 8, 2026
Show 1 older versions
- 2017-01-01posted Jun 8, 2026
CMS's description
The Medicare Home Health Patients and Visits by State data provides a high-level overview of how Medicare beneficiaries use home health services across states, territories, and the District of Columbia. It summarizes the total reimbursements, number of patients receiving care and number of visits.
Methodology and other documents from CMS:
The summary at the top is the first sentence of this description. Record id cms:dc1392f2-64ad-431b-9a2f-47217e1cf094. This record as JSON.