Medicare COVID-19 Hospitalization Trends

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; United States Department of Health and Human Services

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and United States Department of Health and Human Services. Medicare COVID-19 Hospitalization Trends. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2026-01-20. https://doi.org/10.3886/E244470V1

Project Description

Project Title:  View help for Project Title Medicare COVID-19 Hospitalization Trends
Summary:  View help for Summary 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.
Original Distribution URL:  View help for Original Distribution URL https://data.cms.gov/covid-19/medicare-covid-19-hospitalization-trends

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms Medicare; CMS; Original Medicare; Medicare Advantage; Hospitals & Facilities; States & Territories; Inpatient; COVID-19; Health Equity
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage United States
Data Type(s):  View help for Data Type(s) administrative records data


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