CMS — Hospital quality (Care Compare)
CMS Hospital Compare
Cited in 2 studies.
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Latest snapshot JUN 2026 · 9 published studies
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26Registered sourcesCatalogued on the sources page
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Billing & complianceNSA Compliance LeaderboardQuarterly No Surprises Act compliance scores — provider IDR filing rates and payer machine-readable-file compliance, scored from CMS public data under the nsa-compliance/v1 model.Updated 2026-05-24Hospital financeHospital Margin GapPer-hospital operating margin versus the national average from CMS HCRIS cost-report data, with financial-distress flags and a state leaderboard — the federal filing behind most commercial hospital-finance products, published free.Updated 2026-05-24Directory accuracyProvider Directory AccuracyQuarterly cross-source agreement scores between NPPES, CMS Care Compare, and PECOS — field-level accuracy for practice address, specialty, affiliation, and telecom, by state and specialty.Updated 2026-05-24
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| 052 | June 4, 2026 | Original Research Hospitals running out of cash: the days-cash signal, and why most of it is a reporting artifactFederal HCRIS cost reports let us compute days cash on hand for 5,459 hospitals, but facility-level figures are distorted by system-level…Fonteum Research Bureau | Financial distress |
| 048 | June 4, 2026 | Original Research How fast do nursing homes fix what surveyors cite? 28.5 days for the harmful onesAcross 415,849 corrected CMS nursing home health deficiencies, the mean time from survey to documented correction is 32 days — but the…Fonteum Research Bureau | Care quality |
| 052 | June 4, 2026 | Original Research Zero-RN days: how often US nursing homes ran a day with no registered nurse on the floorIn the CMS Payroll-Based Journal's 2025 Q2 snapshot, 5.86% of nursing-home facility-days with residents present recorded zero…Fonteum Research Bureau | Workforce |
| 052 | June 4, 2026 | Data Snapshot Nursing Homes Banned from New Medicare Admissions (DPNA)1,950 US nursing homes have been barred from accepting new Medicare admissions under the Denial of Payment for New Admissions (DPNA)…Fonteum Research Bureau | Financial distress |
| 052 | June 3, 2026 | Original Research County-Level Nursing-Home RN Staffing DesertsAcross 1,362 U.S. counties with at least three reporting nursing homes, 550 (40%) staff registered nurses below the 0.55 federal…Fonteum Research Bureau | Access |
| 048 | May 24, 2026 | Data Snapshot Hospital Margin Gap AnalysisOperating-margin data for 6,000+ U.S. hospitals, computed from CMS HCRIS cost reports (form 2552-10) and benchmarked against the national…Fonteum Research Bureau | Financial distress |
| 047 | May 12, 2026 | Original Research Why 14% of skilled nursing facilities had a quality drop in Q1Across 5,148 SNFs in Q1 2026, the composite quality score declined by an average of 0.06 points — but the decline was not evenly…Fonteum Research Bureau | Care quality |
| 046 | May 5, 2026 | Original Research Provider exclusions aren't rising — but they cluster around distressed operatorsNew additions to the OIG exclusion list are flat to declining — down 2.4% year-over-year through April 2026, and down 18.7% across…Fonteum Research Bureau | Financial distress |
| 045 | April 28, 2026 | Original Research A March spike in Medicare enrollment deactivations thinned provider supply in shortage areasMedicare enrollment deactivations in PECOS ran 28% above the trailing-twelve-month average in March 2026 — and the spike was not uniform.…Fonteum Research Bureau | Access |
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Quarterly No Surprises Act compliance scores — provider IDR filing rates and payer machine-readable-file compliance, scored from CMS public data under the nsa-compliance/v1 model.
Per-hospital operating margin versus the national average from CMS HCRIS cost-report data, with financial-distress flags and a state leaderboard — the federal filing behind most commercial hospital-finance products, published free.
Quarterly cross-source agreement scores between NPPES, CMS Care Compare, and PECOS — field-level accuracy for practice address, specialty, affiliation, and telecom, by state and specialty.
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Facility-quality signals drawn from the CMS Care Compare family — nursing homes, hospice, home health, dialysis, and ambulatory surgical centers — with federal provenance on every metric.
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CMS — Nursing home quality (Care Compare)
CMS Nursing Home Compare
Cited in 3 studies.
CMS — Payroll-Based Journal (PBJ) Daily Nurse Staffing
CMS Payroll-Based Journal
Cited in 1 study.
CMS — Provider Data Catalog
CMS Provider Data Catalog
Cited in 1 study.
CMS — National Plan & Provider Enumeration System
NPPES
Cited in 1 study.
CMS — Provider Data Catalog (Care Compare)
CMS Care Compare
Cited in 1 study.
HHS OIG — List of Excluded Individuals/Entities
OIG LEIE
Cited in 1 study.
CMS — Provider Enrollment, Chain & Ownership System
CMS PECOS
Cited in 2 studies.
HRSA — Health Professional Shortage Areas
HRSA HPSA
Cited in 1 study.
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Source: 22 federal source families·Snapshot: JUN 2026 snapshot·Method: Frozen monthly snapshots · methodology v1
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