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Fonteum Care Compare · Dialysis

7,557 Medicare-certified dialysis facilities — 5-star quality data, ownership transparency, and the documented chain-concentration story.

CMS-published 5-star ratings, profit-vs-nonprofit status, chain affiliation, and service offerings (in-center hemodialysis, peritoneal, home hemodialysis training) for every ESRD facility in the country, with explicit suppression flags for fewer-than-11-patient measure windows.

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Live snapshot · top 5 states by facility count
StateFacilities
TX748
CA737
FL536
GA361
NY347
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Snapshot May 7, 2026·7,557 Medicare-certified dialysis facilities · 56 states + territories · 90.2% chain-owned·CMS Care Compare — Dialysis + CMS POS File·Methodology →·Audit Pack →·Verify at Medicare.gov → ↗
Source-modified 2026-03-25 · Quality measures suppressed when <11 patients in measure period · ICH CAHPS twice-annual companion dataset deferred to a follow-on dialysis-quality wave
Headline figure

90.2% of dialysis facilities are chain-owned in the current snapshot — concentrated under DaVita, Fresenius, and a handful of regional chains. 7,072 carry a CMS-published 5-star rating (mean 2.87 ★); the remaining 485 carry no public rating because of low patient volume in the measure window.

Source: CMS Care Compare · Dialysis Facility (23ew-n7w9) · Source-modified 2026-03-25 · Snapshot 2026-05-07.

National coverage

Medicare-Certified ESRD Facilities

Every facility in the CMS Care Compare Dialysis dataset — identity, ownership, certification, service offerings.

7,557
State coverage — top 10 by facility count

56 states + territories with Medicare-certified dialysis facilities

Every state with enough Medicare-certified dialysis facilities to report has its own quality page; the data is also in the snapshot and audit-pack export.

Dialysis facilities by state
  • Alabama
  • Alaska
  • Arizona
  • Arkansas
  • Colorado
  • Connecticut
  • Delaware
  • Florida
  • Georgia
  • Hawaii
  • Idaho
  • Illinois
  • Indiana
  • Iowa
  • Kansas
  • Kentucky
  • Louisiana
  • Maine

Compliance posture

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Patient load

CMS 5-Star Rating

CMS-published star rating computed from ESRD QIP measures (clinical, reporting, patient experience). Suppression for <11 patients flagged explicitly.

7,072 rated
Market concentration

Chain-Owned Concentration

Dialysis is unusually consolidated. Fonteum surfaces chain affiliation as a per-facility column, not a hidden metadata field.

90%
  • Maryland
  • Michigan
  • Minnesota
  • Mississippi
  • Missouri
  • Montana
  • Nebraska
  • Nevada
  • New Hampshire
  • New Jersey
  • New Mexico
  • North Carolina
  • North Dakota
  • Ohio
  • Oklahoma
  • Oregon
  • Pennsylvania
  • South Carolina
  • South Dakota
  • Tennessee
  • Texas
  • Utah
  • Vermont
  • Virginia
  • Washington
  • West Virginia
  • Wisconsin
  • Wyoming
  • StateFacilities
    TX748
    CA737
    FL536
    GA361
    NY347
    IL340
    OH314
    PA305
    NC255
    MI222