Is there a free download of Medicare hospital cost reports?

Not in Datadory's health-care-facilities slice: none of the 13 primary datasets is a raw HCRIS bulk release. The nearest free substitutes are American Hospital Directory's viewable profiles (internal use, no automated extraction), HealthData.gov's public-domain facility-week capacity series, and HRSA's public-domain AHRF county files and UDS workbooks.

Can AI agents scrape American Hospital Directory cost report figures?

No. AHD's Notice, Disclaimer & Agreement expressly forbids harvesting by bots, scrapers, scripts, AI agents and OCR, and its help library routes bulk requests to subscriptions or Data Services. robots.txt allowing named crawlers at Crawl-delay 5 does not change the license. Volume access means paying for a subscription or commissioning a custom dataset.

How current are American Hospital Directory's cost report figures?

Databases refresh quarterly as CMS public files update; the August 17, 2026 rebuild included FY25 MedPAR through September 30, 2025. Cost report financials themselves lag fiscal year ends by roughly six months or more, so the newest complete fiscal year often cannot be compared until well into the next one.

Is American Hospital Directory the same as the AHA Annual Survey Database?

No. AHD states it is not affiliated with the American Hospital Association and derives its statistics from CMS files - MedPAR, OPPS and HCRIS cost reports - for more than 7,000 hospitals. The AHA licenses its own Annual Survey Database, covering 6,200-plus hospitals and 1,300-plus data points back to 1946, commercially through ahadata.com.

Datadory notebook

Hospital Cost Report Data: Dataset Structure and Field Coverage

1,744 datasets. Pick your catch. Every guide here is built on what the catalog can actually prove.

1,744 datasets. Pick your catch.

How do you build a margin and payer-mix benchmark from it?

A defensible benchmark assembles five sources in order:

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Health Care Facilities United States

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Hospital Cost Report Data: Dataset Structure and Field Coverage

How do you build a margin and payer-mix benchmark from it?

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American Hospital Directory — Advanced Search & Free Hospital Profiles

COVID-19 Hospital Capacity by Facility (Historical Time Series)

NPPES NPI Registry - National Provider & Facility Identifier Search

American Hospital Directory — Homepage & Custom Data Services

Definitive Healthcare Hospital, IDN and Post-Acute Facility Intelligence

HRSA Data Downloads - AHRF, Health Center Sites, HPSA & Transplant Files

The sample tray

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