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DATA · MAY 8, 2026
Press & media · For journalists and data users

For journalists, researchers, and data users.

Everything you need to cite Fonteum Research, embed our dataset findings, or scope a B2B data request — in one place. Free to cite with attribution.

Media inquiries
press@fonteum.com

We respond within one business day to credentialed media requests. Include the outlet, the question, and the deadline.

What Fonteum is

Fonteum is an independent research organization studying the local economy. We publish source-cited provider directories across health-care, trades, and professional services, plus dated research snapshots anchored on federal and state public records (CMS NPPES, CMS PECOS, CMS Care Compare, FL DBPR, BLS, HRSA, U.S. Census Bureau).

Every cited fact carries a source · last-checked date · limitations. The graph is built once, in public, and refreshed from public records on a known cadence.

Read more: /about · /methodology · /sources · /research

What we do not claim
  • ·We do not pre-screen, endorse, or recommend providers. Source-cited is not the same as pre-vetted.
  • ·We do not claim our datasets are a complete market census. They are bounded snapshots of public-record data on a stated date.
  • ·We do not run paid placement on rankings. Featured slots, where present, are labeled and never rerank organic results.
  • ·We do not sell patient, customer, or end-consumer behavioral data. Provider-level public-record data only.
  • ·We do not display unverifiable claims ("#1", "best in the country") on provider profiles or research summaries.

Full doctrine at /editorial-policy.

Founder

Francis Po

Founder, Ownlisted

Francis founded Ownlisted in 2026 to build the research layer for local-services markets — the rigor of capital-markets coverage applied to the trades and professions that move a trillion dollars a year. He writes most of the research personally and edits every piece before publish.

Reach Francis directly at frank@fonteum.com.

Research desks

Four editorial desks group every published study by the kind of question it answers — not by the underlying source dataset. Each desk page lists the studies, the source families, and the doctrine guardrails for that beat.

  • Healthcare access

    Where Americans can — and cannot — see the providers they need.

  • Care quality

    CMS-published quality data for facility-based care.

  • Home services

    Local trades supply and quality, by state and metro.

  • Provider supply

    Network-wide quality, claim readiness, and profile usefulness.

Research assets ready to cite

Three studies a desk can run with today. Each ships a downloadable dataset, a prebuilt copy-paste citation block, and a one-click link to the limitations panel.

  • Dermatology Access and Practice Density Report 2026 — Indexed Practice Coverage Across the United States

    Source: Fonteum indexed dataset + CMS NPPES + 2 more · Snapshot: Q1 2026 indexed snapshot

    Fonteum Research, "Dermatology Access and Practice Density Report 2026 — Indexed Practice Coverage Across the United States," May 1, 2026.
https://fonteum.com/research/dermatology-access-density-2026
Dataset: https://fonteum.com/research/data/dermatology-access-density-2026.csv
    CSV ↓JSON ↓Limitations →Cite this study →
  • Nursing Home Quality by State 2026 — CMS Care Compare State-Level Snapshot
Featured datasets

Six highest-pitch datasets, each with source attribution, snapshot date, row count, and a citation link to the underlying study (which carries the full limitations panel). Free to cite with attribution.

Full catalog at /data-platform.

  • Nursing Home Quality by State 2026 — CMS Care Compare State-Level Snapshot14,699 rows

    Source: CMS Care Compare + Nursing Home Compare · Snapshot: 2026-04 (CMS publication) — snapshot fetched 2026-05-03 · Limitations

    Download CSV →JSON →Cite this study →
  • Home Health Quality by State 2026 — CMS Care Compare State-Level Snapshot12,392 rows
How to cite Fonteum Research

Every published study is free to cite. Please include attribution and a link back to the study URL. The limitations panel on each study page is the source of truth for what the data does and does not cover — please reference it when summarizing findings.

Copy-paste citation template

Fonteum Research, "{Study Title}," {Month YYYY}.
https://fonteum.com/research/{study-slug}
Dataset: https://fonteum.com/research/data/{study-slug}.csv

Drop the “Dataset:” line if the study has no downloadable CSV; the linked study page still renders the full limitations panel and methodology.

AP-style short citation (inline)

(Fonteum Research, {Month YYYY})

Suggested attribution

  • First reference: Fonteum Research (an independent research organization studying the local economy).
  • Subsequent references: Fonteum.
  • Link requirement: Link the headline finding to the canonical study URL (e.g. fonteum.com/research/<study-slug>).
  • Limitations reminder: Datasets are bounded snapshots, not market census. Please reference the limitations panel on the study page when summarizing.
For journalists

Five story angles drawn from current Fonteum Research datasets. Each links to the study or source surface that backs the angle, with the source family already attributed.

Pitch desk: press@fonteum.com

  • Healthcare access gap — dermatology supply by state

    Source: CMS NPPES + HRSA HPSA + U.S. Census Bureau

    Lede

    Skin-cancer incidence has been rising for two decades while the dermatologist supply has barely kept pace — and the gap is not evenly distributed. With melanoma now the fifth most common cancer in U.S. adults, where you live increasingly determines whether a suspicious mole gets seen by a board-certified dermatologist within weeks or months.

    Data point

    Fonteum Research counts NPI-1 records flagged with dermatology taxonomy (CMS NPPES) at the state level and normalizes against the U.S. Census Bureau's most recent state population estimate. The state-by-state distribution sits in the published CSV at /research/data/dermatology-access-density-2026.csv. Multiple states have HRSA Health Professional Shortage Area exposure overlapping their lowest-density quartile.

    So what

    Where a person's ZIP code falls inside a low-density state has direct downstream effects: longer wait times for routine screenings, more travel for biopsies, and higher rates of patients defaulting to non-specialist care. For a healthcare reporter, this is the rare access story that travels — every state has a different answer.

For data users

If you are evaluating Fonteum for research, enrichment, or B2B use cases, the data-platform page is the right starting point — it lists every available dataset, the source family it's anchored on, and four sample B2B export concepts.

Data platform → /data-platform

Live dataset catalog (CSV + JSON where available), four sample B2B export concepts, and a doctrine block describing what we explicitly do not provide.

License or scoping inquiries: press@fonteum.com · /contact

Open data platform →Source library →

Logo kit

Ownlisted logos for use in coverage. SVG originals; scale losslessly to any size. Do not recolor the mark or alter the wordmark letterforms.

  • Wordmark — light mode (SVG)

    Use on light backgrounds

    Download →

  • Wordmark — dark mode (SVG)

    Use on dark backgrounds

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  • Mark — square (SVG)

    For social avatars / favicons

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  • Favicon (SVG)

    32×32 rasterizable

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Factsheet

Free to cite with attribution. Every number here is reproducible from our published datasets. Counts are derived live from the research registry and snapshot — never hardcoded on this page.

Businesses listed
26,417
Customer reviews tracked
29,907,132
US cities covered
300
States and territories
47
Industry categories
1
Published research studies
20
Snapshot date
May 8, 2026
Covered in

No external coverage yet. Research assets are available for citation.

The press kit, citation templates, and downloadable datasets above are everything a desk needs to run a story today — without a press mention. When external coverage publishes, it will be listed here as an itemized link list, not a stock logo strip.

Covered Ownlisted research? press@fonteum.com · /contact

Compliance posture

We don’t sell ranking and don’t accept payment to move a provider up the list. For final hire decisions, verify licensing, insurance, and references directly with the applicable licensing or credentialing body.

No bulk-licensing source family is currently ingested for this vertical. Hire-time checking still routes through the body named above.

Methodology · Corrections log · Editorial policy

Source: CMS Care Compare + Nursing Home Compare · Snapshot: 2026-04 (CMS publication) — snapshot fetched 2026-05-03

Fonteum Research, "Nursing Home Quality by State 2026 — CMS Care Compare State-Level Snapshot," May 3, 2026.
https://fonteum.com/research/nursing-home-quality-by-state-2026
Dataset: https://fonteum.com/research/data/nursing-home-quality-by-state-2026.csv
CSV ↓JSON ↓Limitations →Cite this study →
  • Home Health Quality by State 2026 — CMS Care Compare State-Level Snapshot

    Source: CMS Care Compare + Home Health Compare · Snapshot: 2026-04 (CMS publication) — snapshot fetched 2026-05-03

    Fonteum Research, "Home Health Quality by State 2026 — CMS Care Compare State-Level Snapshot," May 3, 2026.
https://fonteum.com/research/home-health-quality-by-state-2026
Dataset: https://fonteum.com/research/data/home-health-quality-by-state-2026.csv
    CSV ↓JSON ↓Limitations →Cite this study →

    • Source: CMS Care Compare + Home Health Compare · Snapshot: 2026-04 (CMS publication) — snapshot fetched 2026-05-03 · Limitations

    Download CSV →JSON →Cite this study →
  • Dialysis Facility Quality by State 2026 — CMS Care Compare State-Level Snapshot7,557 rows

    Source: CMS Care Compare + Dialysis Facility Compare · Snapshot: 2026-04 (CMS publication) — snapshot fetched 2026-05-03 · Limitations

    Download CSV →JSON →Cite this study →
  • Hospice Provider Availability by State 2026 — CMS Care Compare State-Level Snapshot6,943 rows

    Source: CMS Care Compare + Hospice General Information · Snapshot: 2026-04 (CMS publication) — snapshot fetched 2026-05-03 · Limitations

    Download CSV →JSON →Cite this study →
  • Dermatology Access and Practice Density Report 2026 — Indexed Practice Coverage Across the United States3,339 rows

    Source: Fonteum indexed dataset + CMS NPPES + 2 more · Snapshot: Q1 2026 indexed snapshot · Limitations

    Download CSV →JSON →Cite this study →

    • Tension

    The counterintuitive angle: density does not always track urbanization. Several mid-density Sun Belt states show worse per-capita supply than parts of Appalachia once HRSA shortage exposure is layered in. The simple urban-vs-rural framing breaks.

    Suggested external experts (independent of Fonteum)

    • American Academy of Dermatology workforce policy staff
    • HRSA Bureau of Health Workforce (HPSA program lead)
    • A state medical-board chair (e.g. CA Medical Board, FL DOH)
    • Health-services researcher who studies physician-distribution literature
  • Healthcare access gap — home-health quality variation

    Source: CMS Care Compare Home Health (6jpm-sxkc)

    Lede

    Home-health spending is one of the fastest-growing segments of Medicare, projected to keep climbing as the boomer cohort ages in place. Yet star ratings — the only public-facing CMS quality signal a family can act on — are heavily concentrated in some states and missing in others.

    Data point

    Fonteum's snapshot of the CMS Care Compare Home Health Care Agencies dataset (6jpm-sxkc) builds state-level aggregates: mean Quality-of-Patient-Care star rating, count of rated vs unrated agencies, and ownership mix (For Profit vs Non Profit vs Government). The full state aggregate sits at /research/data/home-health-quality-by-state-2026.csv.

    So what

    A family choosing a home-health agency for a parent should be looking at the star rating. In states where 30%+ of agencies are unrated, that decision happens with no public quality signal — and the for-profit/non-profit ownership mix shifts materially across state lines, which has been associated with outcome variation in the academic literature.

    Tension

    The home-health industry has lobbied to reduce CMS rating frequency on grounds that small samples produce noisy stars. The data shows that rating gaps cluster geographically — and the states with the thinnest rating coverage are also the states with the highest for-profit market share. Whether that is causation or correlation is an open question.

    Suggested external experts (independent of Fonteum)

    • MedPAC home-health analyst
    • CMS Care Compare program lead
    • A state long-term-care ombudsman
    • A health-economist on CMS quality-rating methodology
  • Nursing-home quality variation across states

    Source: CMS Care Compare Provider Data

    Lede

    Nursing-home quality variation between U.S. states is wider than most readers assume. CMS publishes overall star ratings for every certified facility, and when those are aggregated to the state level, the spread between best and worst quartile states is dramatic — large enough that an aging parent's options are heavily shaped by which side of a state line they live on.

    Data point

    Fonteum's CMS Care Compare Provider Data snapshot calculates state-level mean overall star rating, component sub-rating distributions, ownership mix, and rated vs unrated counts. The state-by-state breakdown is at /research/data/nursing-home-quality-by-state-2026.csv. Several states cluster well below the national-average star rating; several others cluster above.

    So what

    Aging-in-place is a cliché until a fall, a stroke, or a dementia diagnosis forces a placement decision. At that point the star rating is the only standardized public signal. State-level variation is the headline a national reporter can localize anywhere.

    Tension

    The contested element: ownership-mix correlation with rating. The for-profit chain consolidation of the past decade has been associated with rating shifts that critics characterize as deterioration and operators characterize as measurement-methodology change. Both interpretations have proponents inside CMS; the data alone does not settle it.

    Suggested external experts (independent of Fonteum)

    • MedPAC long-term-care analyst
    • AARP Public Policy Institute long-term-care researcher
    • A state Department of Health surveyor
    • A health-services academic on nursing-home ownership trends
  • The source-backed provider graph as a methodology story

    Source: Fonteum sources registry + provenance graph

    Lede

    Most provider directories you've encountered as a consumer are either (a) backfilled from Google Business Profile with no source citation or (b) a paid lead-gen list dressed up as a directory. A small but growing category — academic-grade provider graphs — does the opposite: every field on a profile is anchored to a federal or state public-record source, and the source citation is rendered visibly to the reader.

    Data point

    Fonteum's provenance graph stamps four pieces of metadata on every published field: the originating source (e.g. CMS NPPES, FL DBPR), the last-checked ISO date, a §95 confidence tier, and the public/restricted display permission. Those four show up on every profile via the ProvenanceCard component, with the same contract documented at /data-provenance and /data-platform/schema.

    So what

    The methodology story is the better business story than the directory itself. Local-services data has been a wild west for two decades; the question of who is allowed to sell what about whom — and how — is moving back into regulatory focus (FTC click-to-cancel, CMS provider-directory accuracy, state UPL enforcement). A reporter can use Fonteum as a worked example of the alternative pattern.

    Tension

    The doctrine has tradeoffs. Source-cited is not the same as pre-vetted, and a buyer who wants a quality stamp will not find one. Several state-board datasets are restricted from redistribution and will never appear in this graph. Whether 'public record cited, never overclaimed' is a defensible long-term posture — or an unstable middle ground — is a real disagreement inside the industry.

    Suggested external experts (independent of Fonteum)

    • FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection (provider-directory enforcement)
    • ONC HHS interoperability lead
    • A health-data-portability academic (e.g. Mark Savage, Jodi Daniel)
    • A state attorney-general consumer-protection desk
  • Florida contractor license records as a transparency story

    Source: Florida DBPR (Sunshine Law)

    Lede

    Florida's Sunshine Law makes the state's contractor license file (DBPR) a public record — you can see, in real time, whether the HVAC company quoting your roof actually holds an active license. Most states do not. Most consumers do not know which side of that line their state sits on, and most contractor directories obscure rather than surface the answer.

    Data point

    Fonteum wires the FL DBPR CILB master file into provider profiles with the four-field provenance contract from /data-platform/schema: license number, classification (e.g. CGC, CRC, CCC), status (Active, Null, Voluntary Inactive), and expiration date. The display rule is documented at /sources/fl-dbpr.

    So what

    Hurricane-driven roof reconstruction, post-flood remediation, and post-wildfire rebuilds in Sunshine-Law states are an ongoing consumer-protection story — the gap between licensed and unlicensed work is the moment fraud rates climb. Surfacing license data inline on a provider profile is a different consumer experience than scrolling 50 Google reviews.

    Tension

    Florida's Sunshine Law is unusually permissive. Other states' contractor data is partially or fully restricted from redistribution (some require API agreements, some explicitly forbid bulk display). A reporter could use FL DBPR as a worked example of what state-by-state public-record asymmetry looks like — the same consumer right exists in some states and not others.

    Suggested external experts (independent of Fonteum)

    • Florida DBPR communications office
    • A consumer-protection attorney specializing in contractor fraud
    • A national association of consumer advocates (NACA, NCLC)
    • A state contractor-board executive in a non-Sunshine-Law state for contrast (e.g. CSLB-CA)
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