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Post-Acute Industry Trends Quarterly
Latest data available as of November 06, 2026
Your source for post-acute industry trends
National Fee-For-Service Admissions | 2026 Q1*
Home Health
Year-over-year home health FFS admissions decreased from 720.3K to 718.0K (-0.32%) between 2024 Q4 and 2025 Q4.
Hospice
Year-over-year hospice FFS admissions decreased from 441.1K to 428.1K (-2.95%) between 2025 Q1 and 2026 Q1.
Skilled Nursing
Year-over-year skilled nursing FFS admissions decreased by 1.59%, from 422.3K in 2025 Q1 to 415.6K in 2026 Q1.
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Fee-For-Service Inpatient Discharge Instructions | 2026 Q1
Home Health
The percentage of inpatient stays instructed to seek home health services decreased slightly between the rolling four quarters ending in 2025 Q1 (22.7%) and the rolling four quarters ending in 2026 Q1 (22.6%).
Hospice
The percentage of inpatient stays instructed to seek hospice services slightly increased between the rolling four quarters ending in 2025 Q1 (4.0%) and the rolling four quarters ending in 2026 Q1 (4.1%).
Skilled Nursing
The percentage of inpatient stays instructed to seek skilled nursing care decreased slightly between the rolling four quarters ending in 2025 Q1 (20.3%) and the rolling four quarters ending in 2026 Q1 (20.0%).
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National Medicare-Eligible Enrollment**
Medicare Advantage enrollment continues to grow. Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in a Medicare Advantage plan represented 55.5% of beneficiaries enrolled in both Medicare Parts A and B in 2026, an increase from 55.4% in 2025 and an increase of nearly 19 percentage points from 36.7% in 2017.
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*Note about FFS admissions data:
FFS home health, hospice, and skilled nursing admissions are based on claims initially released by CMS to their virtual research data center and accessible by Trella Health. As such, the true number of admissions could be higher when claims that were filed after the initial release are factored in. Trella Health uses the initially released data for earlier quarters to provide a more accurate directional trend analysis for the latest available data.
**Note about Medicare Advantage enrollment data:
As of December 2023, we’ve refined our Medicare Advantage enrollment data sources from using the “Original Medicare Beneficiaries” and “Medicare Advantage and Other Health Plan Beneficiaries” to using the “Original Medicare Part A and Part B Beneficiaries” and “Medicare Advantage and Other Health Plan Part A and Part B Beneficiaries”. This adjustment aligns the Medicare Advantage and Traditional Medicare enrollment definitions to be more similar.
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