# CMS Nursing Home Ratings Scraper - Low-cost๐ฒ๐ฅ๐๐ฅ (`delectable_incubator/cms-nursing-home-ratings-scraper---low-cost`) Actor
Scrape CMS Care Compare nursing home ratings ๐๐ฅ with a powerful healthcare data scraper.
Extract nursing home names, overall ratings, staffing ratings, inspection scores, locations, phone numbers, and more from URLs.
Ideal for healthcare research and structured health datasets ๐๐
- **URL**: https://apify.com/delectable\_incubator/cms-nursing-home-ratings-scraper---low-cost.md
- **Developed by:** [Prime Scrape](https://apify.com/delectable_incubator) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Jobs, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, NaN bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet
## Pricing
from $0.00005 / actor start
This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.
Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event
## What's an Apify Actor?
Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".
## How to integrate an Actor?
If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.
In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js.md):
```bash
npm install apify-client
```
In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python.md):
```bash
pip install apify-client
```
In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md):
````bash
# MacOS / Linux
curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash
# Windows
irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex
```bash
In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp.md).
If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).
For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.
For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).
# README
---
### CMS Nursing Home Ratings Scraper ๐ฅโญ๐
The CMS Nursing Home Ratings Scraper is a powerful and scalable Apify Actor designed to extract structured nursing home rating data directly from CMS Care Compare (Medicare.gov).
It enables healthcare research, compliance monitoring, investment analysis, and public health benchmarking using official CMS data.
---
### ๐ฏ What This Scraper Does
Simply provide one or more CMS Care Compare search URLs and the scraper handles everything automatically.
โ
Extracts nursing home listings from CMS Care Compare
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Intercepts CMS responses
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Collects structured facility & rating data
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Supports pagination and multi-page scraping
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Applies maxItemsPerUrl limits
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Outputs clean, ready-to-use datasets
---
### ๐ Data Extracted
๐ฅ Facility Information
| Field | Description |
| ------------------------ | ------------------------ |
| ๐ providerId | CMS provider identifier |
| ๐ฅ name | Nursing home name |
| ๐ข legalBusinessName | Registered business name |
| ๐ท ownershipType | Ownership type |
| ๐ addressLine1 | Street address |
| ๐ addressCity | City |
| ๐บ addressState | State |
| ๐ฎ addressZipcode | ZIP code |
| โ๏ธ phone | Phone number |
| ๐ numberOfCertifiedBeds | Certified beds |
| ๐ distance | Distance from search |
| ๐ lat / lon | Coordinates |
โญ Ratings Data
| Field | Description |
| ------------------------- | ----------------------- |
| โญ overallRating | Overall CMS rating |
| ๐ฅ healthInspectionRating | Inspection rating |
| ๐ qmRating | Quality measures rating |
| ๐ฉโโ๏ธ staffingRating | Staffing rating |
| ๐ longStayQMRating | Long-stay quality |
| โฑ shortStayQMRating | Short-stay quality |
โ ๏ธ Compliance & Safety
| Field | Description |
| ------------------------------------ | ------------------- |
| ๐ฐ numberOfFines | Regulatory fines |
| ๐ซ numberOfPaymentDenials | Payment denials |
| โ ๏ธ citedForAbuse | Abuse citations |
| ๐ข numberOfFacilityReportedIncidents | Reported incidents |
| ๐ numberOfSubstantiatedComplaints | Verified complaints |
๐ฉโโ๏ธ Staffing & Inspection Metrics
| Field | Description |
| ----------------------------------------- | -------------------- |
| ๐
ratingCycleOneStandardHealthSurveyDate | Last inspection date |
| โ ๏ธ ratingCycleOneTotalHealthDeficiencies | Deficiencies count |
| ๐ nursingStaffTurnover | Staff turnover rate |
| ๐ฉโโ๏ธ registeredNurseTurnover | RN turnover rate |
| โณ nurseStaffHoursWeekend | Nurse hours/weekend |
| โณ registeredNurseHoursWeekend | RN hours/weekend |
๐ข Chain Information
| Field | Description |
| ------------------------------------- | --------------------- |
| ๐ข chainName | Chain name |
| ๐ chainId | Chain ID |
| ๐จ numberOfFacilitiesInChain | Total facilities |
| โญ chainAverageOverall5StarRating | Avg rating |
| ๐ฅ chainAverageHealthInspectionRating | Avg inspection rating |
---
### ๐ How to Use
1๏ธโฃ Configure Input
Provide one or multiple URLs:
````
{
"urls": \[
"https://www.medicare.gov/care-compare/results?searchType=NursingHome\&state=NY",
"https://www.medicare.gov/care-compare/results?searchType=NursingHome\&state=CA"
],
"maxItemsPerUrl": 50
}
```
2๏ธโฃ Run the Actor
โข Call CMS Care Compare API
โข Extract structured JSON data
โข Paginate through results
โข Normalize facility ratings
โข Build structured dataset
3๏ธโฃ Export the Dataset
Download your results in multiple formats:
โ
JSON
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CSV
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Excel
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XML
โ
HTML
---
### โ๏ธ Input Configuration
#### ๐ฅ Input Example
```
{
"urls": \[
"https://www.medicare.gov/care-compare/results?searchType=NursingHome\&state=NY",
"https://www.medicare.gov/care-compare/results?searchType=NursingHome\&state=CA"
],
"maxItemsPerUrl": 50
}
```
#### Input Fields
| Field | Type | Description |
| ----------------------- | ------- | -------------------------------- |
| `keywords` | array | YouTube search keywords |
| `domainemail` | array | Email domains to filter |
| `maxemails_per_keyword` | integer | Max emails collected per keyword |
---
### ๐ค Output Example
```
{
"providerId": "123456",
"name": "Sunrise Care Center",
"addressCity": "New York",
"addressState": "NY",
"overallRating": 4,
"healthInspectionRating": 3,
"qmRating": 5,
"staffingRating": 4,
"numberOfFines": 0,
"numberOfSubstantiatedComplaints": 2
}
````
---
### ๐ Output explanation
๐ฅ Healthcare Research
๐ Public Health Analytics
โ๏ธ Compliance Monitoring
๐ข Investment Analysis
๐ Quality Benchmarking
๐ Geographic Facility Comparison
---
### ๐ Why Use This Scraper?
๐ Official CMS data source
โก Fast structured extraction
๐ Multi-page scraping support
๐ฅ Complete nursing home dataset
๐ Compliance & safety insights
๐ค Automation-ready
---
### โ ๏ธ Disclaimer
This tool is an independent solution and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by CMS or Medicare.gov.
---
### ๐ธ Pricing
This scraper runs on a **pay per events subscription model**.
You only pay for **successful runs**.
๐ณ **Price:** $1.99 / 1000 results
---
### Related Actors
If you're interested in other scraping solutions, explore more tools:
(Coming soon)
---
### ๐ฌ Support
โญโญโญโญโญ Leave a 5-star rating if you like this tool
---
### ๐ PrimeScrape
Built for scalable web data extraction & automation
Contact for custom scraping solutions or enterprise requests via Apify or by email.
# Actor input Schema
## `urls` (type: `array`):
One or more CMS Care Compare search URLs for Nursing Homes.
Examples:
โข https://www.medicare.gov/care-compare/results?searchType=NursingHome&page=1&city=New%20York&state=NY&zipcode=&radius=25&sort=closest
โข https://www.medicare.gov/care-compare/results?searchType=NursingHome&page=1&city=Los%20Angeles&state=CA&zipcode=&radius=25&sort=closest
โข https://www.medicare.gov/care-compare/results?searchType=NursingHome&page=1&city=Chicago&state=IL&zipcode=&radius=10&sort=closest
โข https://www.medicare.gov/care-compare/results?searchType=NursingHome&page=1&zipcode=10001&radius=50&sort=closest
## `maxItemsPerUrl` (type: `integer`):
Maximum number of nursing home records to collect per search URL. Each API page typically returns ~15 results. Set to 0 for no limit.
## Actor input object example
```json
{
"urls": [
"https://www.medicare.gov/care-compare/results?searchType=NursingHome&page=1&city=Washington&state=DC&zipcode=&radius=25&sort=closest&tealiumEventAction=Result%20Page%20-%20Search&tealiumSearchLocation=search%20bar&tealiumSearchInputType=manual%20search%20term"
],
"maxItemsPerUrl": 40
}
````
# Actor output Schema
## `nursing_homes` (type: `string`):
No description
## `ratings_summary` (type: `string`):
No description
## `by_source` (type: `string`):
No description
# API
You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.
## JavaScript example
```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
token: '',
});
// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
"urls": [
"https://www.medicare.gov/care-compare/results?searchType=NursingHome&page=1&city=Washington&state=DC&zipcode=&radius=25&sort=closest&tealiumEventAction=Result%20Page%20-%20Search&tealiumSearchLocation=search%20bar&tealiumSearchInputType=manual%20search%20term"
],
"maxItemsPerUrl": 40
};
// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("delectable_incubator/cms-nursing-home-ratings-scraper---low-cost").call(input);
// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`๐พ Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
console.dir(item);
});
// ๐ Want to learn more ๐? Go to โ https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs
```
## Python example
```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient
# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("")
# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
"urls": ["https://www.medicare.gov/care-compare/results?searchType=NursingHome&page=1&city=Washington&state=DC&zipcode=&radius=25&sort=closest&tealiumEventAction=Result%20Page%20-%20Search&tealiumSearchLocation=search%20bar&tealiumSearchInputType=manual%20search%20term"],
"maxItemsPerUrl": 40,
}
# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("delectable_incubator/cms-nursing-home-ratings-scraper---low-cost").call(run_input=run_input)
# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("๐พ Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
print(item)
# ๐ Want to learn more ๐? Go to โ https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start
```
## CLI example
```bash
echo '{
"urls": [
"https://www.medicare.gov/care-compare/results?searchType=NursingHome&page=1&city=Washington&state=DC&zipcode=&radius=25&sort=closest&tealiumEventAction=Result%20Page%20-%20Search&tealiumSearchLocation=search%20bar&tealiumSearchInputType=manual%20search%20term"
],
"maxItemsPerUrl": 40
}' |
apify call delectable_incubator/cms-nursing-home-ratings-scraper---low-cost --silent --output-dataset
```
## MCP server setup
```json
{
"mcpServers": {
"apify": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"mcp-remote",
"https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=delectable_incubator/cms-nursing-home-ratings-scraper---low-cost",
"--header",
"Authorization: Bearer "
]
}
}
}
```
## OpenAPI specification
```json
{
"openapi": "3.0.1",
"info": {
"title": "CMS Nursing Home Ratings Scraper - Low-cost๐ฒ๐ฅ๐๐ฅ",
"description": "Scrape CMS Care Compare nursing home ratings ๐๐ฅ with a powerful healthcare data scraper. \n\nExtract nursing home names, overall ratings, staffing ratings, inspection scores, locations, phone numbers, and more from URLs. \n\nIdeal for healthcare research and structured health datasets ๐๐",
"version": "0.0",
"x-build-id": "EtYnhz34gZ0bBx55k"
},
"servers": [
{
"url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
}
],
"paths": {
"/acts/delectable_incubator~cms-nursing-home-ratings-scraper---low-cost/run-sync-get-dataset-items": {
"post": {
"operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-delectable_incubator-cms-nursing-home-ratings-scraper---low-cost",
"x-openai-isConsequential": false,
"summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.",
"tags": [
"Run Actor"
],
"requestBody": {
"required": true,
"content": {
"application/json": {
"schema": {
"$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
}
}
}
},
"parameters": [
{
"name": "token",
"in": "query",
"required": true,
"schema": {
"type": "string"
},
"description": "Enter your Apify token here"
}
],
"responses": {
"200": {
"description": "OK"
}
}
}
},
"/acts/delectable_incubator~cms-nursing-home-ratings-scraper---low-cost/runs": {
"post": {
"operationId": "runs-sync-delectable_incubator-cms-nursing-home-ratings-scraper---low-cost",
"x-openai-isConsequential": false,
"summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.",
"tags": [
"Run Actor"
],
"requestBody": {
"required": true,
"content": {
"application/json": {
"schema": {
"$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
}
}
}
},
"parameters": [
{
"name": "token",
"in": "query",
"required": true,
"schema": {
"type": "string"
},
"description": "Enter your Apify token here"
}
],
"responses": {
"200": {
"description": "OK",
"content": {
"application/json": {
"schema": {
"$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema"
}
}
}
}
}
}
},
"/acts/delectable_incubator~cms-nursing-home-ratings-scraper---low-cost/run-sync": {
"post": {
"operationId": "run-sync-delectable_incubator-cms-nursing-home-ratings-scraper---low-cost",
"x-openai-isConsequential": false,
"summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.",
"tags": [
"Run Actor"
],
"requestBody": {
"required": true,
"content": {
"application/json": {
"schema": {
"$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
}
}
}
},
"parameters": [
{
"name": "token",
"in": "query",
"required": true,
"schema": {
"type": "string"
},
"description": "Enter your Apify token here"
}
],
"responses": {
"200": {
"description": "OK"
}
}
}
}
},
"components": {
"schemas": {
"inputSchema": {
"type": "object",
"required": [
"urls"
],
"properties": {
"urls": {
"title": "Search Result URLs",
"type": "array",
"description": "One or more CMS Care Compare search URLs for Nursing Homes. \n\nExamples:\nโข https://www.medicare.gov/care-compare/results?searchType=NursingHome&page=1&city=New%20York&state=NY&zipcode=&radius=25&sort=closest\nโข https://www.medicare.gov/care-compare/results?searchType=NursingHome&page=1&city=Los%20Angeles&state=CA&zipcode=&radius=25&sort=closest\nโข https://www.medicare.gov/care-compare/results?searchType=NursingHome&page=1&city=Chicago&state=IL&zipcode=&radius=10&sort=closest\nโข https://www.medicare.gov/care-compare/results?searchType=NursingHome&page=1&zipcode=10001&radius=50&sort=closest",
"items": {
"type": "string"
},
"default": [
"https://www.medicare.gov/care-compare/results?searchType=NursingHome&page=1&city=Washington&state=DC&zipcode=&radius=25&sort=closest&tealiumEventAction=Result%20Page%20-%20Search&tealiumSearchLocation=search%20bar&tealiumSearchInputType=manual%20search%20term"
]
},
"maxItemsPerUrl": {
"title": "Max Records per URL",
"type": "integer",
"description": "Maximum number of nursing home records to collect per search URL. Each API page typically returns ~15 results. Set to 0 for no limit.",
"default": 40
}
}
},
"runsResponseSchema": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"data": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"id": {
"type": "string"
},
"actId": {
"type": "string"
},
"userId": {
"type": "string"
},
"startedAt": {
"type": "string",
"format": "date-time",
"example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
},
"finishedAt": {
"type": "string",
"format": "date-time",
"example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
},
"status": {
"type": "string",
"example": "READY"
},
"meta": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"origin": {
"type": "string",
"example": "API"
},
"userAgent": {
"type": "string"
}
}
},
"stats": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"inputBodyLen": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 2000
},
"rebootCount": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"restartCount": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"resurrectCount": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"computeUnits": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
}
}
},
"options": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"build": {
"type": "string",
"example": "latest"
},
"timeoutSecs": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 300
},
"memoryMbytes": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 1024
},
"diskMbytes": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 2048
}
}
},
"buildId": {
"type": "string"
},
"defaultKeyValueStoreId": {
"type": "string"
},
"defaultDatasetId": {
"type": "string"
},
"defaultRequestQueueId": {
"type": "string"
},
"buildNumber": {
"type": "string",
"example": "1.0.0"
},
"containerUrl": {
"type": "string"
},
"usage": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"DATASET_READS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"DATASET_WRITES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 1
},
"KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"PROXY_SERPS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
}
}
},
"usageTotalUsd": {
"type": "number",
"example": 0.00005
},
"usageUsd": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"DATASET_READS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"DATASET_WRITES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
"type": "number",
"example": 0.00005
},
"KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
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"type": "integer",
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},
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},
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"example": 0
},
"PROXY_SERPS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
```