Hospice benchmarking data: free sources, what they cover, and what a named-peer report adds

Three public sources cover every Medicare-certified hospice, and all three are free to download.

1. Medicare cost reports (HCRIS)

Financial and operational worksheets filed yearly by every freestanding hospice: revenue and cost per patient day, margin, payer mix, level-of-care days, cost by cost centre. What the files contain. This is the source behind every number on this site. Lag: 12-24 months from fiscal year end to the public file.

2. Care Compare

Medicare Care Compare lists every certified hospice with ownership, certification date, CAHPS family survey results and the Hospice Item Set quality measures. No financial data. The USD 149 trend page prints the listing details next to the cost figures.

3. Provider enrollment and utilisation files

The hospice PUF and provider enrollment files give Medicare utilisation and payment totals per hospice. They overlap with S-1 of the cost report but carry no cost side.

What the free lookup gives

One hospice's cost and revenue per day, margin and Medicare share against the median of its state and size band (10 or more hospices in the cell, else national). Medians for every state and band are on the state pages. No sign-up, runs in the browser.

What the USD 99 report adds

• The 10 closest freestanding hospices by name (same state and band, nearest by patient days), each with revenue and cost per day, margin, Medicare days, salary share, FY end and a Care Compare link.
• Your percentile in the full state-band pool on 13 metrics: revenue and cost per day, margin, Medicare and Medicaid day share, contractual allowances, salary / nursing / aide / administrative / general-service shares of cost, drugs and DME per day, advertising share.
• Level-of-care day mix against the pool median.
• USD 149: the same hospice FY2020-2025 against each year's state median in its band, and the Care Compare listing details.

See the sample before buying. It is benchmark data from public filings, not clinical, staffing, billing, legal or financial advice, and no individual is named.