Where can I find official Medicare data?
Data.Medicare.gov lists official data used on the Medicare.gov Compare websites and directories. We want to make this data available in open, accessible, and machine-readable formats.
What datasets are available for Medicare patients?
Here are the datasets that are available: Find and compare the quality of care at over 4,000 Medicare-certified hospitals. Get information on physicians and other health care professionals now enrolled in Medicare.
Can You estimate populations for Medicaid-only enrollees?
It doesn’t let you estimate populations for Medicaid-only enrollees. Medicare population estimates are extrapolated from the 20% 2012 Medicare sample. Data.Medicare.gov lets you download and explore data behind ratings on Medicare.gov.
How do I access the public data?
This public data can be accessed in several ways, depending on how you want to work with the data. When accessing public data via the Google Cloud Console, you must authenticate with a Google account.
Data Navigator
Our Data Navigator application is an easy-to-use, menu-driven search tool that makes our data and information resources more easily available. Use the Data Navigator to find data and information products for:
Fast facts
We’ve developed a new quick reference statistical summary of our annual program and financial data:
Cohort Estimate Tool
Our Cohort Estimate Tool lets you estimate Medicare and Medicare-Medicaid population sizes. It doesn’t let you estimate populations for Medicaid-only enrollees. Medicare population estimates are extrapolated from the 20% 2012 Medicare sample.
Data.Medicare.gov
Data.Medicare.gov lets you download and explore data behind ratings on Medicare.gov.
Data.CMS.gov
Data.CMS.gov lets you interactively analyze our datasets in real-time. All datasets are API-enabled, supporting integration with external websites and applications.
Medicare provider utilization & payment data: Physician & Other Supplier Look-up Tool
The Physician and Other Supplier Look-up Tool is a searchable database that lets you to look up a provider by:
Medicare provider utilization & payment data: Inpatient Hospital Public Use File (PUF)
This data includes hospital-specific charges for the more than 3,000 U.S. hospitals that receive Medicare Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) payments for the top 100 most frequently billed discharges.
