🏥 Medicare Care Compare Scraper

🚀 Collect data on all 48,000+ Medicare-certified facilities from CMS Care Compare. Get ratings, contact info, staffing levels, inspection scores, and certification data for nursing homes, hospitals, home health agencies, dialysis centers, hospice, and more. Filter by state.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-04-23

Healthcare quality data is critical for families choosing care, analysts benchmarking facilities, and insurance companies evaluating networks. The CMS Care Compare database contains ratings for 48,000+ facilities, but extracting structured data at scale from the web interface is impractical.

The Medicare Care Compare Scraper automates this process, pulling structured facility data with star ratings, quality measures, staffing levels, and contact information for 7 different facility types. Whether you are a healthcare analyst, a family researching nursing homes, or a researcher studying outcomes, this tool delivers clean data in seconds.

Target Audience	Healthcare analysts, families, insurance companies, researchers, journalists
Primary Use Cases	Quality benchmarking, facility research, network evaluation, outcome analysis

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📋 What Does It Do

This tool collects CMS facility data from Medicare's Care Compare database. It delivers:

• 🏥 Hospital data - ratings, emergency services, ownership, and quality measures for 5,400+ hospitals
• 🏠 Nursing home data - overall ratings, staffing levels, inspection scores, bed counts for 14,700+ facilities
• 🏡 Home health agencies - quality ratings for 12,200+ agencies
• 💉 Dialysis facilities - data for 7,500+ dialysis centers
• 🕊️ Hospice agencies - ratings for 6,900+ hospice providers
• 🔍 State filtering - narrow results to any US state
• ⭐ Star ratings - CMS 5-star quality ratings across multiple dimensions

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🎬 How to Use the Medicare Care Compare Scraper - Full Demo

🚧 Demo video coming soon. Follow the step-by-step instructions below to get started in under 2 minutes.

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⚙️ Input

Select the facility type and optional state filter.

Field	Type	Description
Facility Type	Select	Nursing Homes, Hospitals, Home Health, Dialysis, Hospice, Inpatient Rehab, or Long-Term Care
Max Items	Integer	Free users: Limited to 10 items. Paid users: up to 1,000,000
State	String	US state code (e.g. CA, TX, NY). Leave empty for all states

Example 1 - California nursing homes:

{
    "facilityType": "nursing_homes",
    "maxItems": 100,
    "state": "CA"
}

Example 2 - All US hospitals:

{
    "facilityType": "hospitals",
    "maxItems": 6000
}

⚠️ Free users are limited to 10 items per run. Sign up for a paid plan to unlock up to 1,000,000 records.

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📊 Output

🧾 Output Schema

Field	Type	Description
facilityName	string	Facility name
facilityType	string	Hospital, Nursing Home, etc.
overallRating	integer	CMS 5-star overall rating
address	string	Street address
city	string	City
state	string	State code
zip	string	ZIP code
telephone	string	Contact phone
ownership	string	Ownership type (for-profit, nonprofit, govt)
emergencyServices	boolean	Hospital has an ER
certifiedBeds	integer	Number of certified beds
staffingRating	integer	Staffing star rating
healthInspectionRating	integer	Inspection star rating
qualityMeasureRating	integer	Quality measure star rating
scrapedAt	string	Timestamp of data collection

📦 Sample Output

Sample 1 - Hospital:

{
    "facilityName": "Cedars-Sinai Medical Center",
    "facilityType": "hospital",
    "overallRating": 5,
    "address": "8700 Beverly Blvd",
    "city": "Los Angeles",
    "state": "CA",
    "zip": "90048",
    "telephone": "(310) 423-3277",
    "ownership": "Voluntary non-profit - Private",
    "emergencyServices": true,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-04-09T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Sample 2 - Nursing home:

{
    "facilityName": "Sunrise Senior Living of Beverly Hills",
    "facilityType": "nursing_home",
    "overallRating": 4,
    "address": "201 N Crescent Dr",
    "city": "Beverly Hills",
    "state": "CA",
    "zip": "90210",
    "telephone": "(310) 271-5580",
    "ownership": "For-profit - Corporation",
    "certifiedBeds": 120,
    "staffingRating": 4,
    "healthInspectionRating": 3,
    "qualityMeasureRating": 5,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-04-09T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Sample 3 - Home health agency:

{
    "facilityName": "Amedisys Home Health",
    "facilityType": "home_health",
    "overallRating": 4,
    "address": "3854 American Way",
    "city": "Baton Rouge",
    "state": "LA",
    "zip": "70816",
    "telephone": "(225) 292-2031",
    "ownership": "For-profit - Corporation",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-04-09T12:00:00.000Z"
}

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✨ Why Choose the Medicare Care Compare Scraper?

Advantage	Details
🏥 48,000+ facilities	The most comprehensive Medicare facility database
🏷️ 7 facility types	Hospitals, nursing homes, home health, dialysis, hospice, rehab, LTC
⭐ Star ratings	CMS 5-star quality ratings across multiple dimensions
🗺️ State filtering	Target any US state
👩‍⚕️ Staffing data	Staffing levels and ratings for nursing homes
📋 Inspection scores	Health inspection ratings and findings
⏰ Scheduled monitoring	Track rating changes automatically

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📈 How Does It Compare?

Feature	Our Tool	Manual CMS Site
Batch collection	Up to 1M facilities	One at a time
7 facility types	One tool	Navigate separately
Structured output	JSON, CSV, Excel	Web pages only
State filtering	Built-in	Manual search
Automated scheduling	Weekly/monthly	Manual visits
Contact information	Structured	Copy-paste

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🚀 How to Use

1. Sign Up - Create a free account w/ $5 credit (takes 2 minutes)
2. Find the Tool - Search for "Medicare Care Compare Scraper" in the Apify Store
3. Set Input - Select facility type, add state filter if needed
4. Run It - Click "Start" and get facility data in seconds
5. Download Data - Export results as CSV, Excel, or JSON from the Dataset tab

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💼 Business Use Cases

Healthcare Analysts:

• Benchmark facility quality across states
• Compare ratings and staffing levels in your market

Families:

• Research nursing home quality and staffing before choosing care
• Compare facilities by rating, location, and services

Insurance Companies:

• Evaluate facility quality for network decisions
• Monitor rating changes for contracted providers

Journalists and Researchers:

• Investigate healthcare quality disparities across regions
• Analyze relationships between staffing, ratings, and outcomes

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✨ Why choose this Actor

	Capability
🎯	Built for the job. Scoped specifically to this data source so you skip the parser engineering entirely.
🔖	Structured output. Clean, typed fields ready for analysis, dashboards, or downstream pipelines.
⚡	Fast. Optimized request patterns return results in seconds, not minutes.
🔁	Always fresh. Every run pulls live data, so the dataset reflects the source as of run time.
🌐	No infra to manage. Apify handles proxies, retries, scaling, scheduling, and storage.
🛡️	Reliable. Battle-tested across many runs and edge cases, with graceful error handling.
🚫	No code required. Configure in the UI, run from CLI, schedule via cron, or call from any language with the Apify SDK.

📊 Production-grade structured data without the engineering overhead of building and maintaining your own scraper.

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📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Cost	Coverage	Refresh	Filters	Setup
⭐ Medicare Care Compare Scraper (this Actor)	$5 free credit, then pay-per-use	Full source coverage	Live per run	Source-native filters supported	⚡ 2 min
Build your own scraper	Engineering hours	Full once built	Whenever you maintain it	Custom code	🐢 Days to weeks
Paid managed APIs	$$$ monthly	Vendor-defined	Live	Vendor-defined	⏳ Hours
Third-party data dumps	Varies	Subset, often stale	Periodic	None	🕒 Variable

Pick this Actor when you want broad coverage, server-side filtering, and no pipeline maintenance.

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🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the Medicare Care Compare Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Configure the input fields in the form (or paste a JSON), then set maxItems.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your data.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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💼 Business use cases

📊 Data & Analytics Build trend reports and dashboards from live source data Feed BI tools, warehouses, and ML pipelines with structured records Run periodic snapshots to track changes over time Compare segments, regions, or categories with consistent fields	🏢 Operations & Strategy Monitor competitor moves, pricing, and inventory shifts Build internal directories and lookup tools backed by current data Power workflows that depend on fresh source records Cut manual data-gathering time from hours to minutes
🎯 Marketing & Growth Identify market opportunities and trending topics Research target audiences and customer personas at scale Power lead-generation pipelines with verified records Track sentiment, reviews, or social signals over time	🛠️ Engineering & Product Prototype features that need real-world data without owning a crawler Replace fragile in-house scrapers with a managed Actor Wire datasets into your apps via the Apify API or webhooks Skip the proxy, retry, and parsing maintenance entirely

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🌟 Beyond business use cases

Data like this powers more than commercial workflows. The same structured records support research, education, civic projects, and personal initiatives.

🎓 Research and academia Empirical datasets for papers, thesis work, and coursework Longitudinal studies tracking changes across snapshots Reproducible research with cited, versioned data pulls Classroom exercises on data analysis and ethical scraping	🎨 Personal and creative Side projects, portfolio demos, and indie app launches Data visualizations, dashboards, and infographics Content research for bloggers, YouTubers, and podcasters Hobbyist collections and personal trackers
🤝 Non-profit and civic Transparency reporting and accountability projects Advocacy campaigns backed by public-interest data Community-run databases for local issues Investigative journalism on public records	🧪 Experimentation Prototype AI and machine-learning pipelines with real data Validate product-market hypotheses before engineering spend Train small domain-specific models on niche corpora Test dashboard concepts with live input

🔌 Automating Your Healthcare Data Collection

Schedule monthly runs to monitor rating changes and new facility openings. Use the Apify scheduler and push results to your analytics tools, dashboards, or reporting systems.

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❓ FAQ

⭐ What do the star ratings mean? CMS rates facilities on a 1-5 star scale. 5 stars is the highest quality. Ratings are based on health inspections, staffing levels, and quality measures.

📊 How many facilities are available? The database includes 5,400+ hospitals, 14,700+ nursing homes, 12,200+ home health agencies, 7,500+ dialysis facilities, 6,900+ hospice agencies, and more.

🔄 How often is the data updated? CMS updates their data regularly. The scraper always pulls the latest available data.

⚡ How long does a run take? Most state-level queries return results in 10-30 seconds.

💰 Is there a free trial? Yes. Free users can collect up to 10 facilities per run.

📁 What export formats are available? JSON, CSV, and Excel directly from the Apify platform.

🗺️ Can I search all states at once? Yes. Leave the state field empty to collect facilities from all states.

🏥 What facility types are supported? Nursing homes, hospitals, home health agencies, dialysis facilities, hospice agencies, inpatient rehabilitation facilities, and long-term care hospitals.

👩‍⚕️ Is staffing data included? Yes. Nursing homes include staffing ratings, and many facilities include staffing level details.

📋 Are inspection results included? Yes. Health inspection ratings are included for nursing homes.

📞 Does it include contact information? Yes. Phone numbers and addresses are included for every facility.

📅 Can I schedule monthly runs? Yes. Use the Apify scheduler for any frequency from daily to quarterly.

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🔌 Integrate Medicare Care Compare Scraper with Any App

Connect your healthcare data to thousands of apps using these integrations:

• Make - Automate healthcare data workflows
• Zapier - Connect to 5000+ apps
• Slack - Get notified about rating changes
• Google Drive - Export to spreadsheets
• Airbyte - Sync to your data warehouse
• Webhooks - Trigger actions when runs complete

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🔌 Integrate with any app

Medicare Care Compare Scraper connects to any cloud service via Apify integrations:

• Make - Automate multi-step workflows
• Zapier - Connect with 5,000+ apps
• Slack - Get run notifications in your channels
• Airbyte - Pipe results into your warehouse
• GitHub - Trigger runs from commits and releases
• Google Drive - Export datasets straight to Sheets

You can also use webhooks to trigger downstream actions when a run finishes. Push fresh data into your product backend, or alert your team in Slack.

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🆘 Need Help?

• Check the FAQ section above for common questions
• Visit the Apify documentation for platform guides
• Contact us at Tally contact form

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⚠️ Disclaimer: This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) or the U.S. government. It accesses only publicly available data through the official CMS public data API.