# CMS DMEPOS Supplier Directory Scraper API (`pink_comic/cms-dmepos-supplier-directory`) Actor

Search CMS Medical Equipment Suppliers dataset ct36-nrcq by provider ID, business, location, specialty, provider type, supplies, assignment, competitive-bidding contract indicator, and participation date. Returns bounded source-linked supplier evidence.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/pink\_comic/cms-dmepos-supplier-directory.md
- **Developed by:** [Ava Torres](https://apify.com/pink_comic) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Business, AI
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $2.00 / 1,000 cms dmepos supplier directory scraper api evidence items

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## CMS DMEPOS Supplier Directory Scraper API

Search the **CMS Medical Equipment Suppliers** public dataset (`ct36-nrcq`) for DMEPOS supplier-directory evidence. Find suppliers by exact provider ID, business/practice keyword, geography, specialty, provider type, reported supply category, assignment indicator, competitive-bidding contract indicator, and participation date.

### Deterministic first run

Empty input uses provider ID `34362619` and returns one **CRESCENT SERVICES II LLC** row, including the source-reported Pharmacy specialty and supply categories.

```json
{"providerId":"34362619","maxResults":1}
```

Broad example:

```json
{
  "query":"CRESCENT",
  "state":"GA",
  "specialty":"Pharmacy",
  "supplyCategory":"Infusion Drugs",
  "participationFrom":"2025-01-01",
  "sortBy":"businessName",
  "maxCandidates":500,
  "maxResults":10
}
```

The Actor normalizes pipe-delimited specialties, provider types, and supplies into arrays while retaining each original CMS string. It preserves the source's misspelled `acceptsassignement` field as `acceptsAssignmentSource`, and only adds a boolean when CMS reports a recognizable true/false value. Missing fields remain unknown.

### Evidence and reliability

Every output row includes `FOUND`, `NO_MATCH`, or `SOURCE_UNAVAILABLE`, retrieval time, exact datastore query URL, dataset ID/name, filters/default warning, candidate-bound evidence, and source caveats. Exact/geographic/text datastore conditions are rechecked locally. Broad searches inspect at most `maxCandidates` (up to 5,000), then apply a total `maxResults` cap (up to 500). Transport, retryable HTTP status, body-read, and malformed-JSON failures receive bounded retries; `Retry-After` is bounded.

### Pricing

Pay per event: **$0.0001 per start + $0.002 per dataset item**. The default returns one paid row, so its maximum first-run charge is **$0.0021**. An Apify maximum-total-charge limit reduces output before the source request; writes are batched.

### Important limits

This directory is a CMS participation and reported-supplies snapshot—not proof of current stock, coverage for a specific beneficiary or item, licensure/accreditation, service quality, assignment for every claim, competitive-bidding eligibility everywhere, ownership, sanctions clearance, or payment/utilization volume. Missing values are not negative evidence. Confirm consequential decisions with CMS, the supplier, and applicable program/licensing sources.

# Actor input Schema

## `providerId` (type: `string`):

Exact 8-digit CMS supplier provider ID.

## `query` (type: `string`):

Case-insensitive keyword rechecked across business and practice names.

## `state` (type: `string`):

Two-letter state abbreviation.

## `city` (type: `string`):

Case-insensitive city keyword.

## `zipCode` (type: `string`):

Five- or nine-digit ZIP.

## `specialty` (type: `string`):

Matches a source-reported specialty, such as Pharmacy.

## `providerType` (type: `string`):

Matches a source-reported provider type.

## `supplyCategory` (type: `string`):

Matches a reported supply category, such as Infusion Drugs. Does not establish current stock or coverage.

## `acceptsAssignment` (type: `boolean`):

Optional exact filter on source acceptsassignement. Missing is not false.

## `competitiveBiddingContract` (type: `boolean`):

Optional exact source indicator; not eligibility proof everywhere.

## `participationFrom` (type: `string`):

Inclusive YYYY-MM-DD local filter.

## `participationTo` (type: `string`):

Inclusive YYYY-MM-DD local filter.

## `sortBy` (type: `string`):

Sort within the bounded locally matched candidates.

## `sortDirection` (type: `string`):

Ascending or descending.

## `maxCandidates` (type: `integer`):

Total source candidates retrieved before local rechecks.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Total paid output-row cap. Default fixture returns one row.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "providerId": "34362619",
  "sortBy": "businessName",
  "sortDirection": "asc",
  "maxCandidates": 1000,
  "maxResults": 1
}
```

# 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 '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "providerId": "34362619",
    "maxResults": 1
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("pink_comic/cms-dmepos-supplier-directory").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 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);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → 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 '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "providerId": "34362619",
    "maxResults": 1,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("pink_comic/cms-dmepos-supplier-directory").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "providerId": "34362619",
  "maxResults": 1
}' |
apify call pink_comic/cms-dmepos-supplier-directory --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,pink_comic/cms-dmepos-supplier-directory"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/ImULUSwnyf7E1ayBw/builds/YWQuBL3enFx67lebb/openapi.json