CMS Hospital Star Ratings & Quality

Medicare Care Compare data for every US hospital: CMS ID, name, address, phone, type, ownership, emergency services, overall star rating, and mortality, safety, readmission, patient-experience and timeliness measure counts.

Who it's for

• Health-tech and med-device sales teams building hospital lists
• Patients and journalists comparing quality
• Analysts studying ownership vs ratings

Input

Field	What it does
state	State. Two-letter code
city	City. City in capitals
hospitalType	Hospital type. e.g. Acute Care Hospitals, Critical Access Hospitals
minRating	Minimum overall star rating. 1-5
maxItems	Max results. Stop after this many results. Each result is one billed event.

Example input:

{
  "state": "MN",
  "maxItems": 100
}

Output

One dataset item per result. A real item from a test run:

{
  "facility_id": "240001",
  "facility_name": "NORTH MEMORIAL HEALTH HOSPITAL",
  "address": "3300 OAKDALE NORTH",
  "citytown": "ROBBINSDALE",
  "state": "MN",
  "zip_code": "55422",
  "countyparish": "HENNEPIN",
  "telephone_number": "(763) 520-5200",
  "hospital_type": "Acute Care Hospitals",
  "hospital_ownership": "Voluntary non-profit - Private",
  "emergency_services": "Yes",
  "meets_criteria_for_birthing_friendly_designation": "Y",
  "hospital_overall_rating": "1",
  "mort_group_measure_count": "8",
  "count_of_facility_mort_measures": "8",
  "count_of_mort_measures_better": "0",
  "count_of_mort_measures_no_different": "8",
  "count_of_mort_measures_worse": "0",
  "safety_group_measure_count": "8",
  "count_of_facility_safety_measures": "6",
  "count_of_safety_measures_better": "1",
  "count_of_safety_measures_no_different": "4",
  "count_of_safety_measures_worse": "1",
  "readm_group_measure_count": "11",
  "count_of_facility_readm_measures": "10",
  "count_of_readm_measures_better": "0",
  "count_of_readm_measures_no_different": "8",
  "count_of_readm_measures_worse": "2",
  "pt_exp_group_measure_count": "15",
  "count_of_facility_pt_exp_measures": "15",
  "te_group_measure_count": "10",
  "count_of_facility_te_measures": "8",
  "careCompareUrl": "https://www.medicare.gov/care-compare/details/hospital/240001"
}

Download as JSON, CSV, Excel or via the Apify API.

Pricing

Pay per result: $0.003 per hospital ($3 per 1,000). No monthly fee. Set a max charge on the run and it stops there. AI agents can run it with agentic payments where Apify enables them.

Data source

Fetched live at run time from the public source: https://data.cms.gov/provider-data/dataset/xubh-q36u

Public records only. Nothing is fetched behind a login.

Use it from code or an AI agent

curl -X POST 'https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/cheerful_term~cms-hospital-ratings/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"state": "MN", "maxItems": 100}'

Part of a set of public-records actors by cheerful_term: https://apify.com/cheerful_term