Missouri hospices: 133 Medicare-certified, source-cited identity + ownership data.
Ownership type, certification date, and CMS region for every Medicare-certified hospice in Missouri. CAHPS Hospice experience-of-care measures live in a separate CMS dataset (252m-zfp9) and are not included in this snapshot.
Ownership breakdown — Missouri
Hospice ownership concentration is the documented quality-of-care variable in policy literature; Fonteum surfaces the breakdown explicitly.
Hospice quality measures — what this page can and cannot show
Unlike nursing homes or home health, the CMS Hospice General Information file (yc9t-dgbk) that backs this page does notcarry star ratings or quality scores. Hospice quality is reported in the separate CAHPS Hospice Survey dataset (252m-zfp9), and CMS suppressed publicly reported hospice quality measures during the documented May 2026 → February 2028 transition to the new HOPE assessment.
Rather than fabricate a rating, Fonteum renders the fields that genuinely exist for every Missouri hospice: CMS-certified identity, ownership type, CMS region, and Medicare certification date. When the HOPE-based measures publish, they will land here traced to their source.
Hospices in Missouri
First 25 of 133 Medicare-certified hospices. Select a hospice to open its per-facility provenance page.
| Facility | City | Ownership | Certified |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hospice compassus-southwest missouri | SPRINGFIELD | For-Profit | 05/09/1984 |
| Hospice of care | HOUSTON | For-Profit | 06/13/1984 |
| Kansas city hospice and palliative care | KANSAS CITY | Non-Profit | 12/10/1984 |
| Saint luke's hospice | KANSAS CITY | Other | 04/22/1987 |
| Mosaic life care hospice | SAINT JOSEPH | Non-Profit | 06/17/1987 |
| Citizens memorial hospice | BOLIVAR | Other | 10/19/2009 |
| Mercy hospice | SAINT LOUIS | Other | 08/25/1988 |
| Bjc hospice | SAINT LOUIS | Non-Profit | 08/15/1988 |
| Novus lifecare | CLINTON | Non-Profit | 06/02/1989 |
| Ssm health at home hospice | WENTZVILLE | Other | 07/07/1989 |
| Mercy hospice | FESTUS | Non-Profit | 03/09/1990 |
| Three oaks hospice | INDEPENDENCE | For-Profit | 11/14/1990 |
| Ozarks healthcare at home, hospice | WEST PLAINS | Non-Profit | 02/06/1991 |
| Pike county health department, home health & hospi | BOWLING GREEN | Other | 05/20/1993 |
| Gentiva | KANSAS CITY | For-Profit | 07/08/1993 |
| Vna hospice | KENNETT | Other | 06/24/1993 |
| Fitzgibbon mary montgomery hospice | MARSHALL | Non-Profit | 07/14/1993 |
| Mercy hospice | CAPE GIRARDEAU | Other | 07/21/1993 |
| Harrison county hospice | BETHANY | Government | 12/01/1993 |
| Comfort care hospice | CAMERON | Non-Profit | 11/24/1993 |
| Hospice compassus-tri lakes missouri | BRANSON | For-Profit | 06/30/1994 |
| Hospice compassus-south central missouri | MOUNTAIN GROVE | For-Profit | 07/06/1994 |
| Gentiva | SAINT LOUIS | For-Profit | 08/31/1994 |
| Central missouri hospice | JEFFERSON CITY | Other | 10/20/1994 |
| Serenity hospicecare | PARK HILLS | Other | 01/26/1995 |
Missouri hospices — FAQ
- How many Medicare-certified hospices are in Missouri?
- 133 Medicare-certified hospices operate in Missouri as of the CMS Hospice General Information snapshot (2026-05-07). 57.1% are for-profit — ownership concentration is the documented quality-of-care variable in the hospice policy literature.
- Does Fonteum show hospice star ratings for Missouri?
- No — and that is an honest data gap, not an omission. The CMS Hospice General Information file (yc9t-dgbk) that backs this page carries identity, ownership, and certification only. Hospice quality lives in the separate CAHPS Hospice Survey dataset (252m-zfp9), and CMS suppressed publicly reported hospice quality measures during the May 2026 → February 2028 transition to the new HOPE assessment. Fonteum renders the fields that exist rather than fabricating a rating.
- What can I learn from this hospice data today?
- For every Missouri hospice you get its CMS-certified identity, ownership type, CMS region, and Medicare certification date — enough to map the ownership landscape and track when each provider entered the program. Each row links to a per-hospice provenance page.
- Where does this hospice data come from and how current is it?
- All columns trace to the CMS Hospice General Information dataset (PDC yc9t-dgbk), source-modified 2026-01-08. Fonteum redistributes the public-domain CMS file unaltered; cross-check any hospice at Medicare.gov.
Compare other facility types
Every Fonteum Care Compare module carries the same per-facility provenance for Missouri and the rest of the country.