CMS Care Compare · hospital ratings · 2026
Hospital Directory
Every Medicare-certified U.S. hospital with its official CMS Care Compare star rating - 5,432 facilities, searchable by state, rating, and type, published straight from the federal dataset.
Data updated 2026-05-20
- 5,432
- Hospitals
- 384
- 5-star rated
- 56
- States & territories
- 3,182
- With a CMS rating
The hospital ratings picture, in one line
Of the 5,432 Medicare-certified hospitals in this directory, 3,182 carry a CMS Overall Star Rating and 384 earn the top 5 stars, every rating published exactly as CMS releases it, with no proprietary weighting.
- 5,432
- Medicare-certified hospitals
- 384
- 5-star rated facilities
- 56
- states & territories
According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the Care Compare program rated 3,182 of these 5,432 hospitals as of the May 2026 release, scoring each on mortality, safety of care, readmissions, patient experience, and timely & effective care. PlainDoctor mirrors that federal dataset in full and never adds a rating of its own. Full sourcing and limitations are in the methodology. According to CMS Hospital Compare and the National Provider Identifier Registry, covering more than 5,000 U.S. hospitals with a CMS Overall Star Rating published since July 2016 you can search and compare here, every figure traces to its source in our methodology.
- ★★★★★
- 384
- ★★★★★
- 950
- ★★★★★
- 987
- ★★★★★
- 662
- ★★★★★
- 199
5-star rated hospitals
Hospitals by state
| State | Hospitals |
|---|---|
| Texas | 468 |
| California | 378 |
| Florida | 221 |
| Ohio | 196 |
| Illinois | 194 |
| New York | 191 |
| Pennsylvania | 187 |
| Louisiana | 161 |
| Indiana | 151 |
| Georgia | 149 |
| Michigan | 148 |
| Wisconsin | 141 |
| Kansas | 138 |
| Minnesota | 136 |
| Oklahoma | 135 |
| Tennessee | 122 |
| Missouri | 121 |
| North Carolina | 120 |
| Iowa | 118 |
| Mississippi | 108 |
| Arizona | 107 |
| Kentucky | 103 |
| Washington | 100 |
| Alabama | 100 |
| Colorado | 97 |
| Virginia | 96 |
| Nebraska | 93 |
| Arkansas | 91 |
| Massachusetts | 84 |
| New Jersey | 79 |
| South Carolina | 66 |
| Montana | 63 |
| Oregon | 62 |
| South Dakota | 61 |
| Puerto Rico | 60 |
| Maryland | 56 |
| West Virginia | 55 |
| Utah | 52 |
| Idaho | 48 |
| North Dakota | 47 |
| Nevada | 46 |
| New Mexico | 45 |
| Maine | 36 |
| Connecticut | 36 |
| Wyoming | 30 |
| New Hampshire | 28 |
| Alaska | 25 |
| Hawaii | 24 |
| Vermont | 17 |
| Rhode Island | 13 |
| Delaware | 13 |
| District of Columbia | 10 |
| Virgin Islands | 2 |
| Guam | 2 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | 1 |
| American Samoa | 1 |
Frequently asked questions
What is the CMS Hospital Overall Star Rating? +
It is a 1-to-5-star summary the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) publishes for each hospital, combining dozens of quality measures, mortality, safety of care, readmissions, patient experience, and timely & effective care, into a single comparative score. 3,182 of the 5,432 hospitals in this directory carry an overall rating; the rest report too few measures for CMS to compute one.
Is this the official CMS Hospital Compare? +
No. PlainDoctor is an independent directory built directly from the public CMS Care Compare dataset. We publish the federal ratings and facility details verbatim, with no proprietary score; CMS remains the system of record at medicare.gov/care-compare.
How do I find a hospital near me? +
Browse by state below to see every rated facility in your state, or open a hospital page to see its star rating, ownership, type, emergency-services status, and the clinicians affiliated with it. Each hospital is keyed to its CMS Certification Number (CCN), the federal identifier used across Medicare.
Methodology & sources
Hospital ratings and facility details are drawn from the CMS Care Compare dataset (formerly Hospital Compare), refreshed from the public CMS release. Each hospital is identified by its CMS Certification Number (CCN); the Overall Star Rating is CMS's own 1–5 summary of mortality, safety of care, readmissions, patient experience, and timely & effective care.
PlainDoctor publishes these ratings exactly as CMS releases them, with no editorial adjustment. Hospitals reporting too few measures for a CMS rating are listed without one. See the full methodology for sourcing, cadence, and documented limitations.