# CareRanks

> Independent hospital quality ratings and price transparency for the United
> States, built entirely from public federal data (CMS). Covers 6,900+
> hospitals (2,435 with parsed prices from their federally required
> machine-readable files), 14,695 nursing homes, 12,460 home health agencies,
> and 7,490 dialysis centers. No hospital pays for placement, ranking, or
> removal. Published by InfoBakery LLC, West Hartford, CT.

All quality figures are CMS-published values displayed verbatim; prices are
parsed from each hospital's own published price file and never estimated.
Data refresh dates appear on every page footer.

## Browse

- [Hospitals by state](https://careranks.com/hospitals/): profiles with CMS
  star ratings, quality measures, ED performance, and pricing
- [Procedure price comparison](https://careranks.com/procedures/): 396
  procedures, national and state price spreads from hospital price files
- [Price transparency grades](https://careranks.com/transparency/): which
  hospitals publish usable price files
- [Nursing homes](https://careranks.com/nursing-homes/): five-star ratings,
  staffing vs state/national averages, inspections, ownership
- [Home health agencies](https://careranks.com/home-health/)
- [Dialysis centers](https://careranks.com/dialysis/)
- [Patient guides](https://careranks.com/guides/): plain-language explainers
- [Methodology](https://careranks.com/about/methodology/): how every number
  is derived

## Machine-readable data

- Markdown versions: hospital profiles, hospital pricing tables, and
  procedure hubs are also published as markdown — append `index.md` to the
  page URL (e.g. `/hospitals/ct/yale-new-haven-hospital/index.md`) or send
  `Accept: text/markdown` on the HTML URL
- Remote MCP server: `POST https://careranks.com/mcp` (Streamable HTTP,
  no auth) — tools for facility search across all verticals, quality
  summaries, payer-negotiated prices by DRG, clinician rosters, and full
  markdown profiles. Manifest: `/.well-known/mcp-server`
- [Facility index](https://careranks.com/agent-data/facility-index.json):
  every facility + health system with ids, ratings, URLs, capability flags
- In-page tools: pages register WebMCP tools (`navigator.modelContext`) for
  hospital search, payer-negotiated prices, and clinician rosters
- [API catalog (RFC 9727)](https://careranks.com/.well-known/api-catalog)
- [Data endpoint documentation](https://careranks.com/docs/data/): JSON
  endpoints for per-hospital payer rates, clinician rosters with Medicare
  volumes and Open Payments totals, and the search index
- [Full sitemap index](https://careranks.com/sitemap-index-nongoogle.xml):
  every indexable page, sharded by content type (`sitemap-index.xml` is a
  search-engine-curated subset)

## Attribution

Free to cite with attribution to CareRanks (careranks.com). Underlying data
originates from CMS and other federal public sources.