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Hospital CCN lookup by number

How do you look up a CCN number?

Enter an exact six-digit hospital CCN to open Fonteum's noindex hospital-record resolver. This lookup hands off to the loaded hospital snapshot; it does not search every facility type in the CMS Provider of Services registry. A resolver outcome does not determine whether a CCN is valid or whether another CMS facility type has a record.

Published
2026-07-20
Retrieved
Not reported
Snapshot
sha256:2553c2f6f870e7166e3a6fb3cf8f05333d7eb8cf466b7177bee9e7ce0017cc17
Data as of
2026-05-07

Source artifact receipts

Each receipt below describes its exact retained artifact or live source. Dates and digests never cross artifact boundaries.

Open a hospital record

This opens Fonteum's hospital-record resolver. It does not search every facility type in the CMS Provider of Services registry.

What is a CMS Certification Number (CCN)?

Scope and material limitation

What this answer covers

The tool accepts exactly six numeric digits and routes to the existing noindex hospital-record resolver. Only the loaded hospital snapshot is in scope; names and other facility types are not searched.

Dated source facts

What the cited record says

Source-snapshot manifest receipt

Reproducible lineage, explicitly unsigned

This receipt attests the source snapshot manifest, not any individual fact.

The answer-series chain record is unsigned. It does not authenticate a person, organization, eligibility state, or individual fact.

Snapshot manifest SHA-256
1c7e6312b66346316162ab053290933f1cd2bdbffaf4f5f1ce2ed57d4e2565f8
Previous chain SHA-256
3ba4bf425dcf9e76623512aa14272cc66bc99c66080648c677c417bd85771f99
Current chain SHA-256
b75150fb0b67ee591c62c65435c7c6c727786f843ba92a9f588534c8bc7acff7
signature_linked_facts
0
Answer-series chain status
unsigned

Primary-source chain

Follow the answer to its source

  1. Care Compare Hospital General InformationCenters for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)Snapshot:

    Limitation: The dated hospital General Information snapshot covers hospital records keyed by CCN. It does not search every CMS facility type or establish current accreditation, service quality, eligibility, or CCN validity.

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Methodology and limitations

How to interpret this answer

Methodology version: citation-answer/v1

  • This is a hospital-record handoff only; target records remain source scoped and noindex.
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Frequently asked questions

Questions about this answer

What does no CCN result mean?
Only that the loaded hospital snapshot returned no hospital record for the submitted key; it does not determine CCN validity or coverage of another CMS facility type.

What’s on file, by the numbers

Platform snapshot · 2026-08-23

13.4Mproviders & companiesProviders, organizations, owners, and facilities on file
26.2Msource-linked factsSource-linked field facts in the dated platform snapshot
90sources with dataDistinct snapshot source IDs with at least one positive record count
70fresh sourcesDistinct source IDs whose latest positive-data snapshot falls within the preceding 45 days
111sources integratedActive registry rows; integration does not establish a load
13state Medicaid jurisdictionsDistinct states represented in the state-exclusions serving table

Integrated, with-data, and fresh-observation counts are separate. No platform-wide source-completeness count is published. Completeness is source-specific and must be evaluated against the named source's expected scope. State coverage is a separate jurisdiction measure.

Source authority is record-specific

Use the issuer named on the record.

Fonteum spans federal, state, and global public publishers. A source page or returned record identifies its issuer and dataset where that metadata is available. A platform registry count does not assign every page to one authority or establish loaded, fresh, or complete coverage.

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Reproducible by design

Inspect the evidence each published figure actually supplies.

Source and date

Research pages expose the named public file and observation date where those fields are available. Source-file SHA-256 coverage is separate; facts do not currently link deterministically to signatures.

Available derivation

Studies with a retained release and committed derivation link the SQL or method used. Other studies state the evidence and reproduction limits they actually have.

Daily observations

Dated table row-count observations can detect local drift. They do not imply that an upstream publisher released or Fonteum ingested new data that day.

Named medical review

Reviewed by Jennifer Montecillo, MD, medical reviewer. Non-practicing medical reviewer.

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