Medicare Spending Per Beneficiary - National
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 Jul 22, 2026.
Columns 8
The Provider Data Catalog lists only column headers in machine-readable form. Full definitions are in the data dictionary.
| Column | What it means | Type |
|---|---|---|
Measure IDmeasure_id | text | |
Measure Namemeasure_name | text | |
Scorescore | text | |
Footnote - Scorefootnote__score | text | |
National Mediannational_median | text | |
Footnote - National Medianfootnote__national_median | text | |
Start Datestart_date | text | |
End Dateend_date | text |
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At a glance
- Catalog
- Provider Data Catalog
- Publisher
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
- Rows
- 1
- Columns
- 8
- State column
- None found
API
Free, no key needed. This request returns the first 10 rows as JSON:
https://data.cms.gov/provider-data/api/1/datastore/query/3n5g-6b7f/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 numbers displayed here are: 1) the average MSPB measure for the nation; and 2) the national episode-weighted median MSPB amount used as the denominator in the calculation of each hospital's MSPB measure.
The summary at the top is the first sentence of this description. Record id pdc:3n5g-6b7f. This record as JSON.