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Hospitals: CMS star ratings and facts, by state

Every hospital on the list of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), 5,419 in all, with CMS's own facts and star ratings as CMS publishes them. CMS catalog date (released): Aug. 13, 2026; downloaded Oct. 15, 2026.

By state

5,419

5,419 hospitals; 3,174 have a rating from CMS (Hospital overall rating).

What this data is, in CMS's words

Hospital General Information: “A list of all hospitals that have been registered with Medicare. The list includes addresses, phone numbers, hospital type, and overall hospital rating.”

Patient survey (HCAHPS) - Hospital: “A list of hospital ratings for the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS). HCAHPS is a national, standardized survey of hospital patients about their experiences during a recent inpatient hospital stay.”

CMS's ratings, in CMS's words

Hospital overall rating: “The Overall Star Rating summarizes measures publicly reported on Care Compare into a single rating. The measures come from the IQR, OQR, and other programs and encompass measures in five measure groups: mortality, safety of care, readmission, patient experience, timely & effective care. The hospitals can receive between one and five stars, with five stars being the highest rating, and the more stars, the better the hospital performs on the quality measures.”

Patient survey star rating (HCAHPS summary star rating): “HCAHPS Star Ratings provide a quick summary of each HCAHPS measure in a format that allows consumers to more easily compare hospitals. The HCAHPS Summary Star Rating is a roll-up of all the HCAHPS Star Ratings.”

Facility file: CMS catalog date (released): Aug. 13, 2026; downloaded Oct. 15, 2026. Survey file: CMS catalog date (released): Aug. 13, 2026; downloaded Oct. 15, 2026. Source: CMS's Hospital data dictionary, July 2026: CMS's data dictionary.

CMS's footnotes on these ratings

Footnote 5: Results are not available for this reporting period.
Footnote 11: There were discrepancies in the data collection process.
Footnote 15: The number of cases/patients is too few to report a star rating.
Footnote 16: There are too few measures or measure groups reported to calculate a star rating or measure group score.
Footnote 19: Data are shown only for hospitals that participate in the Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR) and Outpatient Quality Reporting (OQR) programs.
Footnote 22: Overall star ratings are not calculated for Department of Defense (DoD) hospitals.
Footnote 23: The data are based on claims that the hospital or facility submitted to CMS. The hospital or facility has reported discrepancies in their claims data.
Footnote 24: Results for this Veterans Health Administration (VHA) hospital are combined with those from the VHA administrative parent hospital that manages all points of service.
Footnote 29: This measure was calculated using partial performance period data due to a CMS-approved exception.

From the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Provider Data Catalog: Hospital General Information, CMS catalog date (released): Aug. 13, 2026; downloaded Oct. 15, 2026. Names, values and labels as CMS writes them; facilities are listed by CMS's certification number (CCN) only, never matched to other records by name. Explanations in quotation marks are CMS's (CMS's Hospital data dictionary, July 2026). A U.S. government work in the public domain. CMS's dataset page.