National Medicare-Eligible Enrollment by Medicare Type
Enrollment Type
Medicare Advantage (Parts A and B)
Traditional Medicare (Parts A and B)
*2026 reflects the January 2026 enrollment snapshot; prior years are annual figures.
Source: CMS Medicare enrollment data · Data Timeframe: 2017 - January 2026
How Each MA Payer’s Home Health and SNF Share Compares to Its Enrollment Share
Each payer’s share of national home health and skilled nursing patients vs. its share of MA enrollment. The difference shows where a payer’s post-acute mix sits relative to its size. Filter by plan type to compare HMO and PPO books. Ten largest payers, 2023.
MA EnrollmentHome Health PatientsSkilled Nursing Patients
How to read: A setting dot to the right of the enrollment dot means the payer serves a larger share of that setting’s patients than its size alone would suggest. UnitedHealth’s share is above its enrollment share in both settings (+1.5 pp HH, +3.6 pp SNF). Kaiser — 100% HMO — is proportional on home health but lower in skilled nursing (−2.8 pp).
Source: CMS Medicare Advantage claims and enrollment data · Data Timeframe: 2023
Annual FFS Inpatient Discharge Instructions by Post-Acute Care Destination
Share of fee-for-service inpatient discharges instructed to enter each post-acute setting, 2019 – 2025.
Discharge Destination
How to read: each bar splits that year’s FFS inpatient discharges by the post-acute setting patients were instructed to at discharge. No Post-Acute Care means the discharge carried no PAC instruction. Values for a few small state-level cells are suppressed in the source data and shown as unavailable.
Source: CMS Medicare FFS claims data · Data Timeframe: 2019 - 2025
National Home Health Admissions by Quarter
Fee-for-service home health admissions per quarter, Q1 2019–Q3 2025. Choose a state to see its market.
How to read: each bar in the quarterly chart is one quarter of fee-for-service home health admissions. The most recent quarter (2025-Q4) is excluded because its claims have not fully run out. Because Medicare Advantage data is only available annually and through 2023, annual FFS and MA totals are shown beneath the year labels rather than as quarterly bars.
Source: CMS Medicare FFS and Medicare Advantage claims data · Data Timeframe: Quarterly (FFS): Q1 2019 - Q3 2025 · Annual (FFS & MA): 2019 - 2023
National Hospice Admissions by Quarter
Fee-for-service hospice admissions per quarter, Q1 2019–Q4 2025. Choose a state to see its market.
How to read: each bar is one quarter of fee-for-service hospice admissions.
Source: CMS Medicare FFS claims data · Data Timeframe: Q1 2019 - Q4 2025
National Skilled Nursing Admissions by Quarter
Fee-for-service skilled nursing admissions per quarter, Q1 2019–Q4 2025. Choose a state to see its market.
How to read: each bar in the quarterly chart is one quarter of fee-for-service skilled nursing admissions. Because Medicare Advantage data is only available annually and through 2023, annual FFS and MA totals are shown beneath the year labels rather than as quarterly bars.
Source: CMS Medicare FFS and Medicare Advantage claims data · Data Timeframe: Quarterly (FFS): Q1 2019 - Q4 2025 · Annual (FFS & MA): 2019 - 2023
30-Day Readmission by Post-Acute Destination — TEAM Surgical Episodes
Across the five surgical episodes in CMS’s Transforming Episode Accountability Model (TEAM), home-health episodes show lower 30-day readmission rates than skilled nursing. Choose a state to see its market.
Total episode cost is the inpatient stay plus 30 days of post-discharge care. Readmission rates are 30-day all-cause and unadjusted. State values with too few episodes to report are omitted.
Source: CMS Medicare FFS claims data · Data Timeframe: 2025
TEAM Surgical Episode Discharge Instructions by Post-Acute Destination
Where patients were instructed to go at discharge for each TEAM surgical episode — home health, skilled nursing, no post-acute care, or other (inpatient rehab and long-term care hospitals). Choose a state to see its pattern.
Home Health
Skilled Nursing
No Post-Acute Care
Inpatient Rehab / LTCH
Bars show the full destination mix: home health, skilled nursing, no post-acute care, and Other (inpatient rehab and long-term care hospitals). State values with too few episodes are omitted.
Source: CMS Medicare FFS claims data · Data Timeframe: 2025
Cost of Care by Hospice Adoption Timing
Average Medicare cost of care over the patient’s final 6 months of life, for patients who died in 2025, grouped by how long they were on hospice beforehand. Select one or more markets; multi-market averages are weighted by patient count.
Inpatient
Hospice
Professional
Skilled Nursing
Home Health
Outpatient
ER / Observation
DME
Cost is average Medicare spend over the patient’s final 6 months of life, for patients who died in 2025, grouped by time on hospice. State values with too few patients are omitted.
Source: CMS Medicare FFS claims data · Data Timeframe: 2025 (final 6 months of life for 2025 decedents)
Cost of Care by Hospice Adoption Timing
Average total Medicare cost of care over the patient’s final 6 months of life, for patients who died in 2025, grouped by how long they were on hospice beforehand. Choose a state to explore.
Cost is average Medicare spend over the patient’s final 6 months of life, for patients who died in 2025, grouped by time on hospice. State values with too few patients are omitted.
Source: CMS Medicare FFS claims data · Data Timeframe: 2025 (final 6 months of life for 2025 decedents)
