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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)
Sprint 1 LOCKED-A 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 §sprint1-foundation snapshot). Quality measures live in companion dataset fp6g-2gsn — deferred. Master spec anchors '~400 LTACHs nationally'; the 317 PDC count reflects QRP-publishing facilities only.
How this source shows up on Fonteum.
Audit-pack export continuum-completeness for post-acute care continuum (acute hospitals → LTACH → IRF → SNF → HH → Hospice).
What this source does NOT mean
Not a directory page; narrower buyer leverage than SNF/HH per master spec Deliverable 4.
Per-field display contract.
Every field below has a `display_allowed` flag in the §94 provenance schema. Write-locked fields are captured to provenance for audit but never rendered on profile pages.
Write-locked — captured to provenance, not displayed
5 fieldsWhat we can’t infer from this source.
- Data-only treatment per LOCKED-A; 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, refresh cadence.
Authority
U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Tier
Tier-1 · research-only (never on individual profiles)
Refresh cadence
Quarterly aligned to LTCH QRP cycle.
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 ↗
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 per LOCKED-A.
What a single field looks like in the graph.
A worked example. Every field surfaced from this source carries this shape of provenance line — source · last checked · display rule · confidence (when applicable).
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
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Compliance posture
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