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CMS Price TransparencyCMS Hospital Price Transparency Enforcement
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) · Tier-2 · profile-enrichment (renders on matched profiles)
The CMS Hospital Price Transparency Enforcement dataset records every enforcement action taken under 45 CFR § 180 (the Hospital Price Transparency rule, effective January 1, 2021). It covers all hospitals subject to the rule — general acute care, critical access, and specialty hospitals — and tracks the full enforcement arc from initial warning through corrective action plans, civil monetary penalties (CMPs), and final resolution. As of 2026, the dataset spans 11,440 enforcement actions across 4,988 unique hospital review cases.
How this source shows up on Fonteum.
Powers the /research/hospital-price-transparency-compliance-2026 flagship study and the /data/price-transparency dataset page. Enables per-state enforcement density analysis, CMP recipient identification, and compliance trend mapping.
What this source does NOT mean
This dataset records CMS enforcement actions — it does not contain the hospitals' actual machine-readable files (MRFs) or the price data itself. An action does not represent a finding of ongoing non-compliance; hospitals that completed corrective actions appear as 'Met Requirements'. Fonteum does not editorially rank hospitals based on enforcement history.
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
7 fieldsWhat we can’t infer from this source.
- Snapshot-based: the dataset reflects enforcement actions as published at each monthly CMS release; actions finalized after the snapshot date do not appear until the next pull.
- Hospital identity is name + address string — no NPI or CCN in the raw CMS export. Cross-referencing to NPPES or Care Compare requires fuzzy matching.
- A hospital with multiple review cycles appears multiple times with distinct Case_IDs; the same hospital may show both 'Warning Notice' and 'Met Requirements' actions in the same snapshot.
- Enforcement actions are CMS determinations of regulatory compliance under 45 CFR § 180; they do not reflect clinical quality, financial health, or patient outcomes.
Authority, license, refresh cadence.
Authority
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Tier
Tier-2 · profile-enrichment (renders on matched profiles)
Refresh cadence
Monthly — CMS publishes updated enforcement data each month. Fonteum re-pulls on the 1st of each month.
License
U.S. government public-domain works (17 U.S.C. § 105). Federal enforcement records. Attribution required: 'Source: CMS Hospital Price Transparency Enforcement · Snapshot {YYYY-MM-DD}'. License ↗
Attribution requirement
Source: CMS Hospital Price Transparency Enforcement · Snapshot {YYYY-MM-DD}
What the source allows.
U.S. government public-domain works (17 U.S.C. § 105). CMS publishes the enforcement dataset at data.cms.gov under U.S. government open data terms. No API key required. Fonteum snapshots the data via the data-api/v1 endpoint (dataset ID 6a3aa708-3c9d-411a-a1a4-e046d3ade7ef) and attest each pull with SHA-256.
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
Enforcement action (research)
Sample value
CMP Notice · Case 555 · 2022-07-14 · TX
Provenance line
Source: CMS Hospital Price Transparency Enforcement · Snapshot 2026-06-06 · Methodology price-transparency/v1 · Display rule: enforcement action renders in research study and dataset page only
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