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+pretty_name: Medicare COVID-19 Hospitalization Trends
+tags:
+- hhs
+- cms
+- inpatient
+- medicare
+---
+
+# Medicare COVID-19 Hospitalization Trends
+
+## Description
+
+The Medicare COVID-19 Hospitalization Trends dataset contains aggregate information from Medicare Fee-for-Service claims, Medicare Advantage encounter, and Medicare enrollment data. It provides insight around the groups of beneficiaries that were hospitalized at different points during the pandemic.
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+CMS publicly released the first Preliminary Medicare COVID-19 Snapshot in June 2020 during the early stages of the Public Health Emergency for COVID-19. That report focused on COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations data for Medicare beneficiaries with a COVID-19 diagnosis. Throughout 2020 and 2021, that report was subsequently updated with refreshed data 13 times. Beginning in October 2021, CMS shifted its public COVID-19 reporting away from cumulative case and hospitalization rates to hospitalization trends over time with the release of this report, the Medicare COVID-19 Hospitalization Trends Report. 
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+All prior releases of both the Preliminary Medicare COVID-19 Snapshot and the Medicare COVID-19 Hospitalization Trends Report are available for download in the Medicare COVID-19 Data - Prior Releases file. 
+
+## Dataset Details
+
+- **Publisher**: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
+- **Temporal Coverage**: 2022-01-01/2023-12-31
+- **Last Modified**: 2024-01-29
+- **Contact**: CMS Program Statistics - OEDA ([email protected])
+
+## Source
+
+Original data can be found at: https://data.cms.gov/covid-19/medicare-covid-19-hospitalization-trends
+
+## Usage
+
+You can load this dataset using:
+
+```python
+from datasets import load_dataset
+ dataset = load_dataset('HHS-Official/medicare-covid-19-hospitalization-trends')
+```
+## License
+
+This dataset is licensed under https://www.usa.gov/government-works