🏥 Medicare Hospital Compare Scraper

🚀 Export every U.S. hospital in seconds. Pull overall star rating, hospital type, ownership, ER status, and quality-measure summaries straight from CMS Care Compare. Download as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-25 · 📊 30+ fields per record · 4,500+ hospitals · United States, all states + territories

The Medicare Hospital Compare Scraper queries the official CMS Provider Data API used to power medicare.gov/care-compare. Every record contains the CMS facility ID, full hospital name, address, hospital type, ownership, ER availability, overall star rating, and the published summary counts for mortality, safety, readmission, patient experience, and timely/effective care measures.

Coverage: every U.S. hospital reporting to CMS - Acute Care, Critical Access, Children's, Psychiatric, VA, DoD.

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Target Audience / Use Cases

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Health plans & payers	Network composition and quality scorecards
Hospital operators	Competitive benchmarking
Healthtech vendors	Seed product catalogs with verified facility data
Investigative journalists	Quality and ownership investigations
Researchers	Quality-measure correlation studies
Real-estate / siting	Healthcare access analyses

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📋 What this scraper does

• Pulls the full Hospital General Information dataset
• Filters by state, city, hospital type, or overall star rating
• Returns CMS facility ID, ownership, ER status, and birthing-friendly flag
• Includes per-domain measure counts (mortality, safety, readmission, etc.)
• Outputs JSON, CSV, Excel, XML

💡 Why it matters: The CMS Provider Data search UI returns a handful of facilities at a time. This actor turns the dataset into one clean export.

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🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon

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⚙️ Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
maxItems	integer	No	10	Max records.
state	string	No		Two-letter U.S. state code.
cityTown	string	No		Exact city match.
hospitalType	select	No	Any	Acute Care, Critical Access, etc.
overallRating	select	No	Any	1-5 stars.

Example 1 - All 5-star NY hospitals:

{ "state": "NY", "overallRating": "5", "maxItems": 100 }

Example 2 - Acute care California hospitals:

{ "state": "CA", "hospitalType": "Acute Care Hospitals", "maxItems": 200 }

⚠️ Good to Know: Star ratings are CMS' published values. Hospitals with insufficient data have a blank hospital_overall_rating.

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📊 Output

Sample:

{
    "facility_id": "330005",
    "facility_name": "KALEIDA HEALTH",
    "citytown": "BUFFALO",
    "state": "NY",
    "hospital_type": "Acute Care Hospitals",
    "hospital_ownership": "Voluntary non-profit - Private",
    "emergency_services": "Yes",
    "hospital_overall_rating": "3"
}

Key fields: facility_id, facility_name, address, citytown, state, zip_code, countyparish, telephone_number, hospital_type, hospital_ownership, emergency_services, meets_criteria_for_birthing_friendly_designation, hospital_overall_rating, and per-domain measure counts (mortality, safety, readmission, patient experience, timely-effective).

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✨ Why choose this Actor

• 🟢 Backed by the official CMS Provider Data API
• 🟢 Filter combinations are first-class
• 🟢 No registration, no API key
• 🟢 Full hospital universe in one run
• 🟢 JSON / CSV / Excel / XML

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📈 How it compares to alternatives

Option	Free	Bulk export	Live	API key
medicare.gov Care Compare	Yes	No	Yes	No
Raw CSV downloads	Yes	Yes	Quarterly	No
ParseForge Hospital Compare Scraper	Yes	Yes	Live	No

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🚀 How to use

1. Create a free account w/ $5 credit
2. Open this actor on Apify Console
3. Set state / type / rating filters
4. Run, download CSV / Excel / JSON / XML
5. Schedule or integrate

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💼 Business use cases

Payer network design

Pull every hospital in a target state with star rating 3+.

Competitive benchmarking

Compare star ratings and measure counts to peers.

M&A diligence

Build a facility universe with ownership and type.

Quality reporting

Reuse measure counts in custom dashboards.

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🔌 Automating Hospital Compare Scraper

Integrates with Make, Zapier, n8n, Slack, Airbyte, GitHub Actions, Google Drive.

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🌟 Beyond business use cases

Research

Quality-measure correlation studies.

Personal

Look up your local hospital's rating.

Non-profit

Patient-advocacy analyses by ownership type.

Experimentation

Pair with home health and hospice scrapers for full-continuum analyses.

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🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Source? CMS Provider Data API (data.cms.gov).

Q: API key? No.

Q: Are quality measures detailed? Per-domain counts are included. Individual measure values are in the larger CMS measure files.

Q: Real-time? Live API.

Q: How often is the source updated? CMS refreshes monthly.

Q: Output formats? JSON, CSV, Excel, XML.

Q: Free preview? Yes, 10 records.

Q: Bulk export size? Up to 1,000,000 paid.

Q: Coverage? All 50 states + DC + U.S. territories.

Q: Are VA/DoD hospitals included? Yes.

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🔌 Integrate with any app

Webhooks, REST API, Make, Zapier, Slack, Airbyte, Google Sheets, and more.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: independent tool, not affiliated with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Only publicly available data from data.cms.gov is collected.