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 April 2025 Refresh?

With the April 2025 refresh, these measures were updated with data from July 2023 – June 2024:

• 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)
• 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

The following measure was updated with data from April 2024 – June 2024:

• COVID-19 Healthcare Personnel Vaccination

The following individual measures and Star Ratings of ICH CAHPS Survey of Patients’ Experiences were updated with data from Fall 2023 and Spring 2024:

• Kidney doctors’ communication and caring
• Quality of dialysis center care and operations
• Providing information to patients
• Rating of kidney doctors
• Rating of dialysis center staff
• Rating of dialysis center

The Overall Star Rating of ICH CAHPS Survey of Patients’ Experiences are also updated with this release.

The PY 2025 ESRD QIP datasets have been added to PDC and are now available for download

For more information about DFCC, please visit https://www.cms.gov/esrd