Updated Dialysis Facility Care Compare (DFCC) on Medicare.gov Data Now Available

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Please Note: Due to the government shutdown, the October DFCC Care Compare refresh was delayed until November 20, 2025.

Updated Dialysis Facility Care Compare on Medicare.gov (DFCC) Data Now Available

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is pleased to announce that new data about dialysis facilities are available on Dialysis Facility Care Compare on Medicare.gov—the website where patients and health centers can view and compare quality data about dialysis facilities. CMS uses these data, organized into a series of measures, to create two star rating systems that help ensure safety, quality, and transparency for dialysis facilities and that help patients make educated decisions about where to get their dialysis treatments.

What’s in the October 2025 Refresh?

Updates to Clinical Data

With the October 2025 release, the following clinical care quality measures on Dialysis Facility Care Compare have been updated with data from Calendar Year (CY) 2024:

Adult and child patients who had enough waste removed from their blood during hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis
Access to home dialysis for new patients
Adult patients who had too much calcium in their blood
Frequency of patient death, hospital admission, or readmission
Frequency of transfusions
Hemoglobin management (Downloadable Data Only)
Phosphorus concentrations in the blood (Downloadable Data Only)
Prevention of bloodstream infections
Adult patients who received treatment through an arteriovenous fistula
Adult patients who had a catheter (tube) left in a vein for at least 3 consecutive complete months, for their regular hemodialysis treatments
Measurement of nPCR for pediatric hemodialysis patients
Patients who were on the kidney or kidney-pancreas transplant waiting list
Transplant waitlist within a year of dialysis initiation
Emergency department encounters
Emergency department encounters within 30 days of hospitalization
Healthcare Personnel Vaccination

The Patient Quality of Care Star Ratings have been updated with this release, also based on CY 2024 data. Details about the methodology for calculating the star ratings can be found in the technical notes on Dialysisdata.org.

Updates to Patient Experience of Care Data

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