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US hospices: owners, patient census and Hospice Care Index scores for 6,669 hospices

Medicare certifies 6,669 US hospices, and 801 owners run three or more of them. Together they care for 399,369 patients on an average day, and 3,775 of them are for profit. The average Hospice Care Index score is 8.9 of 10.

SpecStream is the live web data engine for teams and agents. It reads the CMS hospice files and the Medicare ownership file, and this page is that reading, joined on the CMS Certification Number. Ask for the hospices you track by state, owner or ownership type, and each new index or ownership change arrives in your sheet, CRM, Slack or agent as CMS publishes it.

• 6,669Hospices
• 8.9 of 10Average Hospice Care Index
• 399,369Patients on an average day
• 3,775For profit hospices
• 837Nonprofit hospices
• 2,066Scoring 10 on the Hospice Care Index
• 801Owner pages
• August 19, 2026Data as of

States

Owners and managers with the most hospices

Grouped on CMS's own owner ID. Each page lists the owner's facilities.

Largest hospices

Ranked by patients on an average day.

Updated November 7, 2026. Read from CMS Provider Data Catalog and data.cms.gov, hospice. Open data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (US government work). Scores and measures are as CMS lists them on the date shown and CMS refreshes them on its own schedule. The CMS files are joined on the CMS Certification Number. CMS gives each owner organization an ID, and an owner page groups hospices on that ID. Names of individual owners and managers are not shown. This page uses CMS data and is not endorsed or certified by CMS. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0. Spot a wrong value? Write to [email protected] with the link to this page.