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CMS Civil Money PenaltiesCMS Civil Money Penalties
U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services · Tier-1 · research-only (never on individual profiles)
Civil money penalties (CMPs) and payment-denial actions CMS imposed on Medicare-certified facilities, keyed to the facility CMS Certification Number (CCN). Fonteum holds 16,277 penalty records across 6,884 distinct facilities, totalling $459,337,807 in fines and 2,513 payment-denial events over the 2023-2026 window.
How this source shows up on Fonteum.
Aggregate facility program-integrity research and the 'compromised-anywhere' enforcement signal. The /data and /sources pages report penalty-type, fine-total, and facility-count breakdowns only — no facility is named.
What this source does NOT mean
A civil money penalty is a federal enforcement action against a facility — not a quality rating or a Fonteum judgment. The dataset is CCN-keyed and carries no provider NPI, so penalties never attach to an individual practitioner. A facility without a penalty record is not thereby asserted to be penalty-free in periods outside the snapshot window.
Research and data questions this source supports.
- Quantify total federal civil money penalties levied on Medicare-certified facilities over a multi-year window.
- Compare the count of fine actions against payment-denial actions across the facility universe.
- Build a facility program-integrity screen that surfaces whether a CCN carries a penalty record.
- Research the geographic distribution of facility penalties across states.
Dataset size: 16,277 penalty records across 6,884 facilities (2026-06-13 snapshot)
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.
Research-only — never on profiles
6 fieldsWhat we can’t infer from this source.
- CCN-keyed — there is no provider NPI; penalties are facility-level, never practitioner-level.
- Snapshot window is 2023-2026; the dataset is not a full historical record of all penalties ever levied.
- Aggregate-only on these pages — no facility is named on the /data or /sources surface.
- A penalty is a federal enforcement action, not a Fonteum quality assessment of any facility.
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 — CMS republishes facility civil money penalties alongside the Care Compare release cycle; Fonteum re-pulls and attests each snapshot.
License
U.S. government public-domain works (17 U.S.C. § 105). Federal enforcement records. Attribution required: 'Source: CMS Civil Money Penalties · Snapshot {YYYY-MM-DD}'. License ↗
Attribution requirement
Source: CMS Civil Money Penalties (g6vv-u9sr) · Last checked {YYYY-MM-DD}
What the source allows.
U.S. government public-domain works. CMS publishes the civil money penalties dataset at data.cms.gov (dataset g6vv-u9sr) with explicit redistribution rights. Fonteum attests each snapshot to the 14-tuple provenance contract.
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
Penalty totals (snapshot 2026-06-13)
Sample value
16,277 records · 6,884 facilities · $459,337,807 in fines · 2,513 payment-denial events
Provenance line
Source: CMS Civil Money Penalties · Snapshot 2026-06-13 · Methodology cms-cmp/v1 · Display rule: aggregate-only — totals and breakdowns render, never a named facility
Official API, bulk download, and Fonteum endpoints.
Official API / download
Common questions about CMS Civil Money Penalties.
- What is the CMS Civil Money Penalties dataset?
- It records civil money penalties (CMPs) and payment-denial actions CMS imposed on Medicare-certified facilities. Each row is a penalty action keyed to a facility CMS Certification Number (CCN), with penalty type, fine amount, payment-denial days, and penalty date.
- What do the totals look like?
- As of the 2026-06-13 snapshot Fonteum holds 16,277 penalty records across 6,884 distinct facilities, totalling $459,337,807 in fines. By type there are 13,764 fine actions and 2,513 payment-denial events, spanning May 2023 to April 2026.
- Are penalties tied to individual providers?
- No. The dataset is CCN-keyed and carries no provider NPI, so penalties are facility-level and never attach to an individual practitioner. The entity-graph cross-link is out of scope for this page.
- Does this page name penalized facilities?
- No. This page is aggregate-only — it reports totals and breakdowns and never names a facility. A civil money penalty is a federal enforcement action, not a Fonteum quality rating.
- How can I cite this data?
- Use 'Source: CMS Civil Money Penalties (g6vv-u9sr)' with the snapshot date. It is U.S. government public-domain data published at data.cms.gov with explicit redistribution rights.
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