Number of hospice patients in the United States 2009-2021

Published by Jenny Yang, Feb 6, 2024
In 2021, 1.71 million Medicare beneficiaries were enrolled in hospice services for one day or more in the United States. Hospices provide end-of-life medical care, pain management, as well as emotional and spiritual support. Hospice focuses on caring not curing. This statistic displays the total number of patients in the United States that were served through hospices from 2009 to 2021.

Number of Medicare beneficiaries who received hospice care in the U.S. from 2009 to 2021

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Release date

December 2023

Region

United States

Survey time period

2009 to 2021

Special properties

Only hospices certified by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and reimbursed under the Medicare Hospice Benefit.

Supplementary notes

All figures are estimates.
This statistic is compiled from multiple reports from the same source.

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