Nursing home Provider Information file

The monthly-refreshed CMS file describing every Medicare-certified nursing home — roughly 15,000 rows by 100+ columns, with a published nextUpdateDate (2026-08-26 observed) and a program contact at BetterCare@cms.hhs.gov.

In this catalog it appears concretely: - cms-provider-data-catalog — "BetterCare@cms.hhs.gov for nursing homes".

A label on a listing is not a deliverable. Teams that license on the strength of a product-name match routinely find the shipped files cover a narrower slice than they assumed, and backfilling history afterwards costs more than the license ever did.

The failure mode is concrete: a source can carry the Nursing home Provider Information file label while differing from what you need on exactly the dimension that matters — the nursing home Provider Information file alone is roughly 15,000 rows x 100+ columns. Comparing two sources on that line usually settles the choice faster than any feature matrix.

You rarely have to take a vendor's word for it. 82.4% of the 1,744 datasets Datadory catalogs are free to access, and cms-provider-data-catalog lets you inspect the real artifact before any budget is committed.

Treat every claim of this attribute as testable:

1. Open cms-provider-data-catalog and confirm its record — "BetterCare@cms.hhs.gov for nursing homes" — against the files you actually receive.
2. Pin down update cadence in writing. Across this catalog, 22.6% of 1,744 datasets refresh daily and 64 still arrive only through a manual request form, so ask exactly how fresh each release is.
3. Check whether definitions are verified at all. Field definitions are verified for 1495 of 1,744 datasets (85.7%), and any source you license should meet that bar.
4. Price the delivery route before the license. In this catalog bulk download is the most common access method (725 datasets) ahead of official APIs (574), and 379 sources still require scraping — a maintenance cost that lands on you, not the vendor.

See the term applied to real records: health-care-reits data.

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