Dialysis Facility Compare datasets
These are the official datasets used on the Medicare.gov Dialysis Facility Compare Website provided by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. These data allow you to compare the quality of care provided in Medicare-certified dialysis facilities nationwide.
Dialysis Facility Compare data was last updated on Feb 8, 2019.
Announcements:
- With the January 2019 Refresh, the following measures on Dialysis Facility Compare were updated with new data:
- Adult and child patients who had enough waste removed from their blood during hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis
- Adult patients who had too much calcium in their blood
- Hemoglobin management (Downloadable Data Only)
- Phosphorus concentrations in the blood (Downloadable Data Only)
- Proportion of adult hemodialysis patients who received treatment through an arteriovenous fistula
- Proportion of adult hemodialysis patients who had a catheter (tube) left in a vein longer than 90 days, for regular hemodialysis treatments
- Measurement of nPCR for Pediatric Hemodialysis Patients
- In January 2019, the ESRD QIP data on Dialysis Facility Compare were updated to reflect Payment Year (PY) 2019 results.
- Beginning with the April 2019 Dialysis Facility Compare release, the downloadable database will be provided in .csv format only. We will no longer post the Access format.
- Get help using Data.Medicare.gov.