{
  "year": 2024,
  "measure": "Published Medicare fee-for-service home-health payments",
  "cohort": "California provider IDs first observed after 2019 in the 2016\u201324 files",
  "cohortProviderCount": 1246,
  "cohortProvidersWith2024Payment": 1179,
  "cohortPayments": 1067621474,
  "californiaProviderCount": 2240,
  "californiaProviderPayments": 3255106057,
  "sharePercent": 32.79836218251982,
  "roundedSharePercent": 33,
  "numeratorSource": "/data/homehealth/newer-provider-cohort.csv",
  "denominatorSource": "https://data.cms.gov/sites/default/files/2026-07/839da318-d963-435c-8709-35c5820c50a4/RY26_PACPUF_HH_2024_main_S.csv",
  "denominatorSourceSha256": "8635d4f242c0dd8a8127925d489174f9d53da94ae49748150189e89733bfc7d2",
  "method": "Sum TOT_MDCR_PYMT_AMT over California PROVIDER rows for the denominator; sum nonmissing 2024 payments over the documented newer-provider cohort for the numerator. Suppressed or unpublished payments are absent from both sums. First appearance describes an identifier in billing data; it does not establish a business founding date."
}