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    • Medicare COVID-19 Hospitalization Trends

    Metadata Updated: December 11, 2025

    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. 

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: See this page for license information.

    Downloads & Resources

    References

    https://data.cms.gov/resources/medicare-covid-19-hospitalization-trends-methodology-2023

    Dates

    Metadata Created Date January 25, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date December 11, 2025
    Data Update Frequency R/P1Y

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from Healthdata.gov

    Other Data Resources

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date January 25, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date December 11, 2025
    Publisher Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
    Maintainer
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    Data First Published 2025-12-09
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2024-01-29
    Category Medicare
    Public Access Level public
    Data Update Frequency R/P1Y
    Bureau Code 009:38
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    Data Quality True
    Data Dictionary https://data.cms.gov/resources/medicare-covid-19-hospitalization-trends-data-dictionary
    Harvest Object Id 1e4fd7ad-dd33-407f-b278-20dff37a20df
    Harvest Source Id 651e43b2-321c-4e4c-b86a-835cfc342cb0
    Harvest Source Title Healthdata.gov
    Homepage URL https://data.cms.gov/covid-19/medicare-covid-19-hospitalization-trends
    License https://www.usa.gov/government-works
    Program Code 009:000
    Related Documents https://data.cms.gov/resources/medicare-covid-19-hospitalization-trends-methodology-2023
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 3bd1af248fab37f881b627bd1543b069d6ab9131abc55dcc0fc105050e59c185
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Temporal 2022-01-01/2023-12-31

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