---
language:
- en
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.

 

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. 

 

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 (IPAG_Data_Products@cms.hhs.gov)

## 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