Provider Data Catalog

Medicare Spending Per Beneficiary - Hospital Additional Decimal Places

The Medicare Spending Per Beneficiary (MSPB) Measure shows whether Medicare spends more, less, or about the same for an episode of care (episode) at a specific hospital compared to all hospitals nationally.

Freshness

Last posted
Period covered
Update frequency

Dates as CMS lists them in its catalog. CMS last changed the data itself on Jan 26, 2026.

Columns 6

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

ColumnWhat it meansType
Facility IDfacility_idtext
Measure IDmeasure_idtext
Valuevaluetext
Footnotefootnotetext
Start Datestart_datetext
End Dateend_datetext

At a glance

Catalog
Provider Data Catalog
Publisher
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Rows
2,974
Columns
6
State column
None found
Topics
Hospitals, Spending and use of services

API

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

https://data.cms.gov/provider-data/api/1/datastore/query/5hk7-b79m/0?limit=10

CMS's description

The Medicare Spending Per Beneficiary (MSPB) Measure shows whether Medicare spends more, less, or about the same for an episode of care (episode) at a specific hospital compared to all hospitals nationally. An MSPB episode includes Medicare Part A and Part B payments for services provided by hospitals and other healthcare providers the 3 days prior to, during, and 30 days following a patient's inpatient stay. This measure evaluates hospitals' costs compared to the costs of the national median (or midpoint) hospital. This measure takes into account important factors like patient age and health status (risk adjustment) and geographic payment differences (payment-standardization). The data displayed here are identical to the data displayed in the Medicare Spending per Beneficiary file, except that this file displays hospitals measure values out to six decimal places instead of two decimal places. The Medicare Spending per Beneficiary file additionally reflects quarterly changes to the provider population such as the opening or closure of hospitals.

The summary at the top is the first sentence of this description. Record id pdc:5hk7-b79m. This record as JSON.

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