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Methodology & data sources

How CMS provider records become this directory, and what the data can and cannot tell you.

What we include

We ingest currently published CMS Provider Data Catalog files for nursing homes, home health agencies, and hospices nationally, including territories where listed. Records need a usable certification number, name, state or territory, and city. CCNs are treated as strings to preserve leading zeros. Duplicate CCNs within a provider type are consolidated.

Ratings need context

Nursing home overall, inspection, staffing, and quality-measure ratings are separate CMS measures. Home health quality of patient care stars differ from HHCAHPS patient survey stars. Hospice CAHPS stars describe caregiver survey measures; we do not invent a hospice overall rating. Only published numerical star values from 1 to 5 appear as stars. Suppressed, missing, and unavailable values are omitted rather than treated as zero. Hub averages use the nursing home overall rating or home health quality-of-patient-care rating, exclude missing ratings, and are not a ranking.

Inspections and capacity

Citation totals and scope/severity counts cover the rows present in the published health deficiencies file, potentially across multiple survey cycles. We show at most three most recent citation descriptions per provider; these are not a complete inspection history or a determination of present conditions. CMS scope/severity codes run from A through L; higher letters generally indicate more serious or widespread findings. Survey dates, penalty totals, staffing hours per resident day, certified beds, and average residents come from CMS. Certified beds are not current vacancies.

Geography and search

State and city hubs reflect provider office addresses. Home health and hospice service areas may extend far beyond the office city. Search matches provider name, city, state abbreviation or name, and ZIP; it does not assess eligibility, clinical suitability, availability, or distance. Nearby listings share a city or ZIP and are not recommendations.

Freshness and limitations

Ingestion runs before a release, never during a page request. CMS datasets have different reporting periods and may lag official conditions; the ingestion timestamp is not a survey date. Cached pages can take up to 24 hours to refresh after a data deployment. Always verify information in official CMS Care Compare and directly with the provider. No missing value should be interpreted as evidence of quality.

Data release record

Ingested November 15, 2026. 33,764 providers; 55 states and territories; 7,771 cities. 418,682 citation rows aggregated.

Official CMS Care Compare · Provider Data Catalog

This directory is not medical advice or a recommendation. We are not affiliated with CMS, Medicare, or Medicaid. Data comes from CMS Care Compare / Provider Data Catalog and may lag official sources. Check the official CMS Care Compare site.