---
language:
- en
pretty_name: Medicare Dialysis Facilities
tags:
- hhs
- cms
- medicare
---

# Medicare Dialysis Facilities

## Description

The Medicare Dialysis Facilities data provides information on clinical and patient measures for Medicare-certified ESRD facilities, also known as dialysis facilities. It contains data on patient characteristics, treatment patterns, hospitalization, mortality, and transplantation patterns in Medicare-certified dialysis facilities.

 

Note: This full dataset contains more records than most spreadsheet programs can handle, which will result in an incomplete load of data. Use of a database or statistical software is required.

## Dataset Details

- **Publisher**: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- **Temporal Coverage**: 2009-01-01/2024-12-31
- **Last Modified**: 2024-02-29
- **Contact**: ESRD Questions - CCSQ (ESRDQuestions@cms.hhs.gov)

## Source

Original data can be found at: https://data.cms.gov/quality-of-care/medicare-dialysis-facilities

## Usage

You can load this dataset using:

```python
from datasets import load_dataset
 dataset = load_dataset('HHS-Official/medicare-dialysis-facilities')
```
## License

This dataset is licensed under https://www.usa.gov/government-works