---
title: "CMS Care Compare hospital quality ratings - the data behind..."
method: GET
path: "/api/health/hospital-quality"
tags: ["health"]
---

# CMS Care Compare hospital quality ratings - the data behind...

`GET /api/health/hospital-quality`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://2s.io`
- URL: `https://2s.io/api/health/hospital-quality`
- Auth: API key in header `PAYMENT-SIGNATURE`

CMS Care Compare hospital quality ratings — the data behind medicare.gov hospital ratings, for all ~5,300 Medicare-certified US hospitals. Look up by facilityId (CMS certification number), or filter by state, city, and name (partial match). Each row: facility id/name/address/phone, hospital type + ownership, emergency services, overall star rating (1-5), and per-domain measure summaries (mortality, safety of care, readmission, patient experience, timeliness, effectiveness) showing whether the hospital performs better/same/worse than the national average. Rows returned with CMS's documented column names. Public-domain federal data.

## Query parameters

- `facilityId` string
- `state` string
- `city` string
- `name` string
- `limit` integer
- `offset` integer
- `trial` 1

## Other responses

- `200` (unresolved $ref)
- `400`: Invalid request — not charged. error.code: BAD_REQUEST or INVALID_PARAM (parameter validation; error.details.issues lists each problem), MALFORMED_JSON, or a request-specific code. Other client errors: 405 METHOD_NOT_ALLOWED (wrong verb; see the Allow header), 413 PAYLOAD_TOO_LARGE.
- `402`: Payment required. Body is the x402 PaymentRequirements envelope with a multi-network accepts array; the per-call price is in accepts[].amount (and on the operation as x-2s-price). Sign for whichever rail you hold USDC on (EIP-3009 for Base, partial SPL transfer for Solana) and retry with the PAYMENT-SIGNATURE header (X-PAYMENT also accepted for v1 clients). Also PAYMENT_SETTLE_FAILED (error envelope) when a verified payment failed to settle: error.details.chargeStatus is "not_charged" (retry with a fresh payment) or "unknown" (the authorization may still settle before its deadline — check it before retrying).
- `429`: Too many requests — RATE_LIMITED: our per-IP / per-payer limiter. Not charged; retry after Retry-After.
- `5XX`: Server-side failure. 500 INTERNAL: unexpected error; quote error.errorId (also the X-2s-Error-Id header). 502 UPSTREAM_UNAVAILABLE (or another UPSTREAM_* code): the data provider failed — composite endpoints refuse unbilled when every source fails. 503 SERVICE_PAUSED: endpoint paused by the operator kill switch, retry after Retry-After; 503 SPEND_CAP: daily upstream budget exhausted. 504 UPSTREAM_TIMEOUT. Not charged.

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