🩺 CMS Physician Compare Scraper

🚀 Export Medicare Care Compare physician records with NPI, specialty, credentials, location, and facility data in seconds.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-25 · 📊 22 fields per record · 🩺 US-wide · 1.3M+ Medicare clinicians · NPI, specialty, location, gender, credentials, facility

The CMS Physician Compare Scraper extracts records from the official Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Care Compare Doctors and Clinicians dataset. Every record includes NPI, name, gender, credentials, medical school, graduation year, primary and secondary specialties, telehealth flag, facility, address, city, state, ZIP, and phone — exported as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

The scraper supports filtering by US state, last name, specialty (Family Practice, Cardiology, Internal Medicine, Clinical Psychologist, etc.), and city. Covers every Medicare-enrolled clinician across all 50 states + territories.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Healthcare recruiters, MedTech sales teams, pharma reps, market researchers, healthcare-data journalists	Physician outreach, lead generation, market sizing, recruitment, competitive intelligence

📋 What the CMS Physician Compare Scraper does

• Connects to the official CMS Care Compare (Doctors & Clinicians) dataset.
• Paginates through every record matching your filters.
• Normalises each record into a flat, analysis-ready row.
• Exports as CSV, Excel, JSON or XML — directly from your Apify dataset.
• Refreshes on demand or on schedule (hourly, daily, weekly).

💡 Why it matters: stop copy-pasting from a portal that paginates 100 records at a time. One click, full dataset, your format.

🎬 Full Demo

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⚙️ Input

Field	Type	Description
maxItems	integer	Max clinicians to export. Free: 10. Paid: up to 1,000,000.
state	string	Two-letter US state code (e.g. CA, NY, TX).
lastName	string	Filter by clinician last name.
specialty	string	Primary specialty filter (e.g. CARDIOLOGY).
city	string	City filter.

Example 1 — California cardiologists

{
  "maxItems": 500,
  "state": "CA",
  "specialty": "CARDIOLOGY"
}

Example 2 — NYC psychologists

{
  "maxItems": 200,
  "state": "NY",
  "city": "NEW YORK",
  "specialty": "CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST"
}

⚠️ Good to Know: free users are capped at 10 records per run as a preview. Upgrade to any paid plan to unlock full exports (up to 1,000,000 records). Data is collected directly from the official public source — no login or API key required.

📊 Output

Field	Type	Description
🖼 imageUrl	string	Always null
📌 title	string	Clinician full name
🔗 url	string	Care Compare physician detail URL
🆔 id	string	NPI
🪪 npi	string	10-digit National Provider Identifier
👤 provider_first_name	string	First name
👤 provider_last_name	string	Last name
🚻 gndr	string	Gender (M/F)
🎓 cred	string	Credentials (MD, DO, PhD, etc.)
🏫 med_sch	string	Medical school
📅 grd_yr	string	Graduation year
🩺 pri_spec	string	Primary specialty
🩺 sec_spec_all	string	All secondary specialties
💻 telehlth	string	Telehealth offered (Y/N)
🏥 facility_name	string	Practicing facility name
🔢 org_pac_id	string	Organization PAC ID
🏙 citytown	string	City
🗺 state	string	State
📮 zip_code	string	ZIP code
☎️ telephone_number	string	Phone
🕒 scrapedAt	string	ISO scrape timestamp
❌ error	string	Populated on failure

Sample record (real run output):

{
  "title": "DANIEL FENTON",
  "url": "https://www.medicare.gov/care-compare/details/physician/1154875961",
  "id": "1154875961",
  "npi": "1154875961",
  "provider_last_name": "FENTON",
  "provider_first_name": "DANIEL",
  "gndr": "M",
  "grd_yr": "2020",
  "pri_spec": "CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST",
  "telehlth": "Y",
  "facility_name": "EXTRA YEARS PSYCHOLOGY CALIFORNIA PC",
  "citytown": "LOS ANGELES",
  "state": "CA",
  "zip_code": "90004",
  "telephone_number": "4252707631",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-05-25T22:25:28.098Z",
  "error": null
}

✨ Why choose this Actor

✅	What you get
🎯	Direct extraction from the official CMS Care Compare (Doctors & Clinicians) portal
📊	22 normalised fields per record
⚡	Run on-demand or on schedule
📁	CSV, Excel, JSON, XML — your choice
🔌	Integrates with Make, Zapier, Slack, Airbyte, Google Drive
🆓	Free preview (10 records) — no credit card
🌍	Public data only — no login or API key required
🚀	Maintained and updated as the source schema evolves

📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Speed	Maintenance	Cost	Export formats
Copy-paste from portal	🐌 Hours	🛠 High	Free	Limited
Build your own scraper	🐢 Days	🛠 Ongoing	Dev time	DIY
Generic SaaS scraper	🚶 Slow	🛠 Manual config	$$$	Generic
This Actor	🚀 Minutes	✅ Maintained	💸 From free	CSV / Excel / JSON / XML

🚀 How to use

1. Create a free Apify account with $5 credit — no credit card required.
2. Open the CMS Physician Compare Scraper page in Apify Store and click Try for free.
3. Configure the input (see Input section above).
4. Click Start — the run will produce a downloadable dataset.
5. Export as CSV, Excel, JSON or XML, or stream to your destination via integrations.

💼 Business use cases

Lead generation & sales

🎯	Example
📞	Build target lists filtered by category, region, or status
🧠	Enrich CRM records with up-to-date public attributes

Compliance & risk

🎯	Example
🔍	Continuous monitoring of changes in official records
📋	Audit-trail-friendly exports for compliance teams

Market research

🎯	Example
📊	Track market dynamics over time
🌍	Benchmark across regions, categories, or operators

Operations & automation

🎯	Example
🔄	Schedule recurring pulls and pipe straight into your BI tool
🚨	Alert on threshold or status changes

🔌 Automating CMS Physician Compare Scraper

• Make — receive new records into a scenario and route them anywhere.
• Zapier — trigger on new dataset rows and push to 6,000+ apps.
• Slack — post fresh records into a channel for the team.
• Airbyte — sync the dataset into your warehouse (BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift, Postgres).
• GitHub — store snapshots in a repo for diffing over time.
• Google Drive / Sheets — auto-append rows to a spreadsheet.

🌟 Beyond business use cases

Research

• Academic studies on CMS Care Compare (Doctors & Clinicians) trends, distributions and outliers.

Personal projects

• Hobbyist data viz, dashboards, blog posts and side-projects.

Non-profit

• Open-data journalism, transparency audits, civic-tech tools.

Experimentation

• Train ML models on a clean, structured slice of public data.

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

❓ Is the data accurate?

Yes — the scraper pulls directly from the official CMS Care Compare (Doctors & Clinicians) public dataset. Accuracy mirrors the source.

❓ Do I need an API key or login?

No. Everything is public data. Just run the actor.

❓ How fresh is the data?

Each run fetches the latest available records from data.cms.gov at request time.

❓ How many records can I export?

Free users: 10 (preview). Paid users: up to 1,000,000 per run.

❓ Can I export to Excel?

Yes — choose CSV, Excel, JSON or XML on the dataset page.

❓ Can I schedule recurring runs?

Yes — Apify Schedules supports hourly/daily/weekly/cron. Pair with integrations for auto-delivery.

❓ Is this affiliated with CMS Care Compare (Doctors & Clinicians)?

No. This is an independent tool that exposes publicly available data via a structured interface.

❓ What happens if the source goes down?

The actor surfaces a clean error record. Re-run when the source is back up.

❓ Can I filter the output?

Yes — the input section above lists every supported filter, exposed as a typed input field.

❓ Can I use it for commercial purposes?

Yes, subject to the source dataset's terms of use. Always review the original publisher's license.

❓ Where can I get help?

Open our contact form — we usually respond within one business day.

🔌 Integrate with any app

Make · Zapier · Slack · Airbyte · GitHub · Google Drive · Google Sheets · BigQuery · Snowflake · Redshift · Postgres · MySQL · MongoDB · Kafka · Webhooks · REST API.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: This is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by CMS Care Compare (Doctors & Clinicians). It only collects publicly available data published by the source. Always review the source's terms of use before commercial deployment.