CMS Care Compare Quality Scraper

Get Medicare Care Compare data for hospitals, nursing homes, home health agencies, dialysis facilities and hospices in clean rows you can export to CSV or Excel. A hospital row does not stop at the star rating: it carries the death rates, complication rates, readmission rates, infection ratios, patient survey results and Medicare spending that CMS publishes in many separate files, already joined and compared with the state average.

The data comes from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Provider Data Catalog. It is public and refreshed by CMS every month or quarter. This Actor reads it on every run, so you always get the latest release, and it adds the comparisons and counts that people usually build by hand in a spreadsheet.

What can you do with this CMS quality data scraper?

• List every hospital in a state with its overall star rating, type, ownership and emergency services.
• Find hospitals with a 4 or 5 star rating and a below average readmission rate for heart failure.
• Compare a hospital with the state average rating and count how many measures are better or worse than the national rate.
• Get infection ratios for central line, catheter, colon surgery, MRSA and C. diff infections for each hospital.
• Pull patient survey stars for nurse communication, doctor communication, cleanliness, quietness and overall rating.
• Rank nursing homes by nurse staffing hours per resident, RN hours, weekend staffing and staff turnover.
• Find nursing homes with a special focus status, an abuse citation or a recent change of ownership.
• Download every immediate jeopardy or actual harm inspection finding for the nursing homes in your state.
• List the largest nursing home fines since a given date, with the fine per bed.
• Compare dialysis facilities on survival, hospitalization, readmission and transplant waitlist rates.
• Compare home health agencies on timely care, walking and bathing improvement, readmissions and Medicare spending.

Seven ways to collect data

Mode	One row is	Best for
Hospitals with quality measures	one hospital	site selection, benchmarking, market reports
Nursing homes	one nursing home	staffing studies, lead lists, family research
Nursing home inspection findings	one citation	compliance, legal research, news stories
Nursing home fines and penalties	one fine	enforcement tracking, chain risk
Home health agencies	one agency	referral partners, quality comparison
Dialysis facilities	one facility	network analysis, patient guidance
Hospices	one hospice	quality comparison, referral planning

What data do you get for a hospital?

• Facility ID, name, address, county, phone, type, ownership, emergency services and birthing friendly designation.
• Overall star rating plus the number of measures that are better, the same or worse than the national rate for mortality, safety and readmission.
• Death rates for heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia, COPD, stroke and bypass surgery, and the hospital wide mortality rate.
• Complication and safety indicators (PSI), hip and knee complication rate, and readmission rates by condition.
• Infection ratios (SIR) for central line, catheter, colon surgery, hysterectomy, MRSA and C. diff, each with the comparison to the national benchmark.
• Medicare spending per beneficiary ratio, emergency department wait times and sepsis, stroke and vaccination care measures.
• Patient survey star ratings and top box percentages, the number of completed surveys and the response rate.
• Value based purchasing score, hospital acquired condition score and excess readmission ratios by condition.
• Derived fields: state average rating, rating compared with the state, national average, better and worse measure counts, and the number of conditions with excess readmissions.

What data do you get for a nursing home?

• Overall, health inspection, staffing and quality measure star ratings, long stay and short stay quality ratings.
• Certified beds, average residents per day, occupancy, ownership, legal business name and chain details.
• Nurse aide, LPN, RN and total nurse hours per resident per day, weekend hours and case mix adjusted hours.
• Nursing staff turnover, RN turnover and the number of administrators who left.
• Latest and previous survey dates and deficiency counts, infection control citations and weighted health survey score.
• Fines, total fine amount, payment denials, special focus status and abuse citation flag.
• Derived fields: state average rating, rating compared with the state, nurse hours percentile across the country, fines per bed and an optional count of harm and immediate jeopardy findings.

Input example

Top rated hospitals in Texas, best first:

{
    "mode": "hospitals",
    "states": ["TX"],
    "minRating": 4,
    "sortBy": "ratingHighToLow",
    "maxItems": 100
}

Immediate jeopardy findings at nursing homes in Ohio since the start of 2025:

{
    "mode": "nursingHomeDeficiencies",
    "states": ["OH"],
    "minSeverity": "J",
    "dateFrom": "2025-01-01"
}

Output example

A real hospital row, shortened:

{
    "facilityId": "530012",
    "name": "BANNER WYOMING MEDICAL CENTER",
    "city": "CASPER",
    "state": "WY",
    "overallRating": 2,
    "clabsiSir": 0.208,
    "clabsiSirVsNational": "No Different than National Benchmark",
    "medicareSpendingPerBeneficiaryRatio": 1.04,
    "patientSurveyStarRating": 2,
    "ratedNineOrTenPct": 56,
    "valueBasedPurchasingTotalScore": 15.25,
    "stateAverageRating": 3.38,
    "ratingVsStateAverage": -1.38
}

A real inspection finding row, shortened:

{
    "ccn": "535049",
    "name": "Life Care Center of Casper",
    "surveyDate": "2026-07-16",
    "scopeSeverityCode": "K",
    "scope": "pattern",
    "severityLabel": "Immediate jeopardy",
    "immediateJeopardy": true,
    "daysToCorrect": 26
}

How much does it cost?

You pay for each row returned, and the price per row drops with higher Apify subscription plans. Free accounts can test the Actor with up to 10 rows per run. A full state list of hospitals with all measures usually finishes in under a minute.

Frequently asked questions

How often is the data updated? CMS updates hospital data every quarter and nursing home data every month. The Actor always reads the latest release and shows the data date in nursing home rows.

What does the scope and severity letter mean? Inspectors grade each finding from A to L. D and above means more than minimal harm, G and above means actual harm to a resident, and J, K and L mean immediate jeopardy. The scope tells you if it was isolated, a pattern or widespread.

Why are some measures empty? CMS hides a measure when the hospital has too few cases. These values are returned as null, never as text, so your spreadsheet formulas keep working.

Can I look up one provider? Yes. Enter its CMS Certification Number in provider IDs, or use the name filter.

Do I need to turn off the measures to go faster? For a plain list of hospitals or hospices, switch off the quality measures option.

Limits

The Actor does not show doctor or clinician ratings, and it does not give medical advice. Ratings and measures come from CMS and describe past performance. The data is public domain and published by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.