Care Carta

MRF correctly encodes the attester's name

§180.50(a)(3)(iv)

What it checks

The price file names the person who made that statement.

Checked by CMS's validator. Care Carta runs the official validator CMS publishes for price files and reads this result from its output.

How hospitals did

Passed 86%Failed 3%Blocked 11%Couldn't determine 1%

Results as of Oct 5, 2026. The most common reasons are on the Attestation and responsible official page.

How Care Carta decides

Validator completed with no mapped attester-name error.

Scope: attester_name is required and must be a non-empty string

Depends on: The CMS validator finished

Version

Ruleset
hpt-v3, version 3
Last changed in
Ruleset 2
CMS data dictionary
3.0.0
Check ID
hpt.mrf.cms.attester_name@1
Replaced
hpt.mrf.attestation.responsible_official

Today's results all use this ruleset. A check never changes without a new ruleset. Full catalog (JSON)