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CMS Care Compare — LTACHCMS Care Compare — LTACH General Information (data-only)
U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services · Tier-1 · research-only (never on individual profiles)
Data-only treatment: identity + ownership + bed count for 317 Medicare-certified Long-Term Care Hospitals. Care Compare LTACH IS the identity backbone (POS QIES PRVDR_CTGRY_CD=23 absent from the current snapshot). Quality measures live in companion dataset fp6g-2gsn — deferred. Against the ~400 LTACHs estimated nationally, the 317 PDC count reflects QRP-publishing facilities only.
How this source shows up on Fonteum.
Audit-pack export coverage for represented post-acute records (acute hospitals → LTACH → IRF → SNF → HH → Hospice).
What this source does NOT mean
Not a directory page; narrower buyer leverage than SNF/HH.
Research and data questions this source supports.
- Build a long-term acute care hospital directory for a post-acute discharge planning tool.
- Identify LTACH facilities by state to support a study on capacity and access for complex chronic condition patients.
- Cross-reference LTACH CCNs with POS and HCRIS to join identity, quality, and financial data for M&A research.
- Enumerate available LTACH beds by county for a healthcare capacity modeling exercise.
- Support a payer network adequacy filing that requires mapping LTACH availability in a coverage region.
Dataset size: ~350–400 certified LTACHs
Per-field display contract.
Fields listed below show their configured `display_allowed` flag from the §94 provenance schema. Fields marked write-locked are captured for audit and are not rendered on profile pages.
Write-locked — captured to provenance, not displayed
5 fieldsWhat we can’t infer from this source.
- Data-only treatment; not surfaced on a brand-hub page.
- 317 facilities vs '~400' industry rounded count — gap is non-QRP-publishing facilities.
- LTCH QRP quality measures deferred (companion dataset fp6g-2gsn).
Authority, license, publisher cadence.
Authority
U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Tier
Tier-1 · research-only (never on individual profiles)
Publisher / configured cadence
Declared or configured cadence: Quarterly aligned to LTCH QRP cycle. Not evidence of the latest loaded source date.
License
U.S. government public-domain works (17 U.S.C. § 105). Attribution: 'Source: CMS Care Compare · LTACH General Information (azum-44iv) · Snapshot {YYYY-MM-DD}'. License ↗
Official URL
Attribution requirement
Source: CMS Care Compare · LTACH General Information (azum-44iv) · Last checked {YYYY-MM-DD}
What the source allows.
U.S. government public-domain works. Data-only.
What a single field looks like in the graph.
This worked example shows the provenance shape used when a surfaced field has populated source, last-checked, display-rule, and confidence metadata. Individual fields may omit unavailable values.
Field
LTACH count (snapshot 2026-05-07)
Sample value
317 Long-Term Care Hospitals across 47 states + DC
Provenance line
Source: CMS Care Compare · LTACH General Information (azum-44iv) · Snapshot 2026-05-07 · Display rule: audit-pack-only
Official API, bulk download, and Fonteum endpoints.
Official API / download
Fonteum surface
Common questions about CMS Care Compare — LTACH.
- What is a Long-Term Acute Care Hospital (LTACH)?
- A Long-Term Acute Care Hospital (LTACH) is a Medicare-certified facility specializing in patients requiring extended acute care — typically 25+ days average length of stay. LTACHs treat complex medical conditions that cannot be discharged to a short-term acute care hospital or skilled nursing facility. They are distinct from skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) and inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs) in both the patient population served and the Medicare reimbursement rate structure.
- What quality measures does CMS publish for LTACHs?
- CMS Care Compare reports LTACH quality measures including: percent of patients with hospital-acquired infections, functional outcome measures (improvement in ambulation, self-care), discharge-to-community rate, hospital readmission rate, and Medicare spending per beneficiary. The specific measure set is defined in the LTACH Quality Reporting Program (LTCH QRP).
- Where can I download the CMS LTACH data?
- CMS publishes the LTACH General Information and Provider Data files at data.cms.gov/provider-data. Multiple files cover different measure domains. All files are U.S. government public-domain data available as CSV downloads at no cost.
- How does an LTACH differ from a skilled nursing facility?
- LTACHs provide hospital-level acute care for medically complex patients requiring extended stays, typically averaging 25+ days. Skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) provide sub-acute rehabilitation and nursing care, typically averaging 20–30 days post-acute, at lower cost-per-day than LTACHs. Medicare reimbursement for LTACHs uses the LTACH PPS (Prospective Payment System); SNFs use the SNF PPS.
- How many LTACHs operate in the United States?
- There are approximately 350–400 Medicare-certified LTACHs operating in the United States. The LTACH sector consolidated significantly after CMS implemented the LTACH site-neutral payment rule in 2016, which reduced reimbursement for cases that did not meet the strict clinical criteria for LTACH-level care. Fonteum's LTACH surface uses the CMS POS file as the CCN identity backbone.
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