Medicare Spending Per Beneficiary - Hospital
Whether Medicare spends more, less or about the same per episode of care at each hospital compared with the national median hospital.
Freshness
- Last posted
- Period covered
- Update frequency
Dates as CMS lists them in its catalog. CMS last changed the data itself on Jul 22, 2026.
Before you use it
- An episode covers Medicare Part A and Part B payments from 3 days before to 30 days after an inpatient stay, and is risk adjusted and payment standardized.
Columns 14
The Provider Data Catalog lists only column headers in machine-readable form. Full definitions are in the data dictionary.
| Column | What it means | Type |
|---|---|---|
Facility IDfacility_id | text | |
Facility Namefacility_name | text | |
Addressaddress | text | |
City/Towncitytown | text | |
Statestate | text | |
ZIP Codezip_code | text | |
County/Parishcountyparish | text | |
Telephone Numbertelephone_number | text | |
Measure IDmeasure_id | text | |
Measure Namemeasure_name | text | |
Scorescore | text | |
Footnotefootnote | text | |
Start Datestart_date | text | |
End Dateend_date | text |
No column matches that filter.
At a glance
- Catalog
- Provider Data Catalog
- Publisher
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
- Rows
- 4,626
- Columns
- 14
- State column
state
API
Free, no key needed. This request returns the first 10 rows as JSON:
https://data.cms.gov/provider-data/api/1/datastore/query/rrqw-56er/0?limit=10
To keep only one state, filter on the state column.
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 summary at the top was written by hand from this description. Record id pdc:rrqw-56er. This record as JSON.