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CMS Care Compare — HospitalsCMS Care Compare — Hospital General Information (data-only)
U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services · Tier-1 · research-only (never on individual profiles)
Data-only treatment: identity + hospital_type + ownership + Hospital Overall Rating for 5,426 Medicare-certified hospitals. NO dedicated brand-hub page; surfaced via audit-pack export + cross-source resolver only. POS QIES is the canonical identity backbone for hospitals (PRVDR_CTGRY_CD=01); Care Compare Hospital General Information ENRICHES POS-anchored CCNs.
How this source shows up on Fonteum.
Audit-pack export continuum-completeness + cross-source resolver enrichment for hospital CCNs. Buyer pitch leverage rather than consumer SEO surface.
What this source does NOT mean
This is not a hospital directory page — hospitals are intentionally excluded from dedicated brand-hub pages. Star rating reflects CMS publication; Fonteum does not independently rate.
Per-field display contract.
Every field below has a `display_allowed` flag in the §94 provenance schema. Write-locked fields are captured to provenance for audit but never rendered on profile pages.
Write-locked — captured to provenance, not displayed
5 fieldsWhat we can’t infer from this source.
- Data-only treatment; not surfaced on a brand-hub page.
- Hybrid Hospital-Wide Mortality measure new July 2025 — limited baseline trend.
- 5,426 < 13,540 POS hospital rows — Care Compare Hospitals is a SUBSET; POS owns identity.
- 47% unrated for Hospital Overall Rating in current snapshot.
Authority, license, refresh cadence.
Authority
U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Tier
Tier-1 · research-only (never on individual profiles)
Refresh cadence
Annual cycle aligned to FY rule changes; Hybrid HWM measure new July 2025.
License
U.S. government public-domain works (17 U.S.C. § 105). Attribution: 'Source: CMS Care Compare · Hospital General Information (xubh-q36u) · Snapshot {YYYY-MM-DD}'. License ↗
Attribution requirement
Source: CMS Care Compare · Hospital General Information (xubh-q36u) · Last checked {YYYY-MM-DD}
What the source allows.
U.S. government public-domain works. Data-only treatment.
What a single field looks like in the graph.
A worked example. Every field surfaced from this source carries this shape of provenance line — source · last checked · display rule · confidence (when applicable).
Field
Hospital count + rating coverage (snapshot 2026-05-07)
Sample value
5,426 hospitals; 2,866 rated; mean 3.08 ★
Provenance line
Source: CMS Care Compare · Hospital General Information (xubh-q36u) · Snapshot 2026-05-07 · Display rule: audit-pack-only — no consumer brand-hub render
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