CMS Hospital General Information Scraper

Extract structured data on 5,400+ U.S. hospitals from the CMS Hospital General Information dataset — names, addresses, hospital types, ownership, overall star ratings, mortality and safety measure counts, emergency services availability, and birthing-friendly designation.

What this Actor does

This Actor pulls the live CMS Hospital General Information dataset directly from the official data.cms.gov provider data API. It enriches each record with normalized booleans and rating integers, then writes structured JSON ready for analytics, sales prospecting, or feeding into RAG pipelines.

Output fields include:

Field	Description
facilityId	CMS Certification Number (CCN)
facilityName	Hospital legal name
address, city, state, zipCode, county	Full mailing address
phone	Hospital main phone number
hospitalType	Acute Care, Critical Access, Psychiatric, Children's, etc.
hospitalOwnership	Government, Voluntary, Proprietary, etc.
emergencyServices	Boolean — emergency department on-site
overallRating	CMS overall star rating (1–5)
birthingFriendlyDesignation	Boolean — meets birthing-friendly criteria
mortalityMeasuresBetter / mortalityMeasuresWorse	Mortality measure counts vs. national average
safetyMeasuresBetter / safetyMeasuresWorse	Safety of care measure counts
readmissionMeasuresBetter / readmissionMeasuresWorse	Readmission measure counts

How to scrape CMS Hospital data

1. Click Try for free to add this Actor to your Apify account.
2. Configure filters (all optional):
   • State — two-letter abbreviation, e.g. CA
   • Hospital Type — partial match, e.g. Acute Care
   • Ownership Contains — partial match, e.g. Government
   • Minimum Rating — 1–5
   • Emergency Services Only
   • Max Results — 0 for unlimited
3. Click Start. The Actor paginates through the full dataset and returns matching records.

Pricing

• $0.003 per result — cheap because the upstream API is public and fast.
• Typical full-state run (~200 hospitals) costs around $0.60.
• Full national pull (~5,400 hospitals) costs around $16.20 plus Apify compute.

Example input

{
  "state": "CA",
  "minRating": 4,
  "emergencyOnly": true,
  "maxResults": 500
}

Example output

{
  "facilityId": "050001",
  "facilityName": "SOUTHEAST HEALTH MEDICAL CENTER",
  "city": "DOTHAN",
  "state": "AL",
  "hospitalType": "Acute Care Hospitals",
  "hospitalOwnership": "Government - Hospital District or Authority",
  "overallRating": 4,
  "emergencyServices": true,
  "phone": "(334) 793-8701"
}

Use cases

• Healthcare B2B sales — find hospitals by ownership type, state, or rating for medical device, IT, or staffing pitches.
• Quality benchmarking — compare hospital ratings within a market or compare a target hospital to peers.
• Market research — analyze hospital mix and ownership patterns across states.
• Policy & academic research — get fresh CMS quality data without scraping HTML.

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• medicare-provider-scraper — Medicare-enrolled providers
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• fda-food-recalls-scraper — FDA enforcement reports

FAQ

Where does the data come from? The official CMS data.cms.gov provider data API (resource xubh-q36u). Public domain U.S. government data.

How fresh is it? CMS updates this dataset on its regular quality reporting cadence (usually quarterly). The Actor fetches the live API every run.

Do I need an API key? No — the CMS endpoint is open.

Legal

This Actor only retrieves public, non-personal data from a U.S. federal government source. Use the data in compliance with applicable laws. The Actor is provided "as is" without warranty. For questions, contact the Actor maintainer through Apify Console.