Provider Data Catalog
Unplanned Hospital Visits - National
Unplanned Hospital Visits: national data.
Freshness
- Last posted
- Period covered
- Update frequency
Dates as CMS lists them in its catalog. CMS last changed the data itself on Sep 10, 2026.
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 |
|---|---|---|
Measure IDmeasure_id | text | |
Measure Namemeasure_name | text | |
National Ratenational_rate | text | |
Number of Hospitals Worsenumber_of_hospitals_worse | text | |
Number of Hospitals Samenumber_of_hospitals_same | text | |
Number of Hospitals Betternumber_of_hospitals_better | text | |
Number of Hospitals Too Fewnumber_of_hospitals_too_few | text | |
Footnotefootnote | text | |
Start Datestart_date | text | |
End Dateend_date | text | |
Number of Hospitals Fewernumber_of_hospitals_fewer | text | |
Number of Hospitals Averagenumber_of_hospitals_average | text | |
Number of Hospitals Morenumber_of_hospitals_more | text | |
Number of Hospitals Too Smallnumber_of_hospitals_too_small | text |
No column matches that filter.
At a glance
- Catalog
- Provider Data Catalog
- Publisher
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
- Rows
- 14
- Columns
- 14
- State column
- None found
- Topics
- Hospitals
API
Free, no key needed. This request returns the first 10 rows as JSON:
https://data.cms.gov/provider-data/api/1/datastore/query/cvcs-xecj/0?limit=10
CMS's description
Unplanned Hospital Visits: national data. This data set includes national-level data for the hospital return days (or excess days in acute care [EDAC]) measures, the unplanned readmissions measures, and measures of unplanned hospital visits after outpatient procedures.
The summary at the top is the first sentence of this description. Record id pdc:cvcs-xecj. This record as JSON.