Care Carta

MRF correctly encodes drug units and measurement type

§180.50(b)(2)(iii)(C)

What it checks

Each drug says the unit and the type of measurement its price is for.

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 55%Failed <1%Blocked 12%Couldn't determine 1%Not assessed 32%

Results as of Oct 5, 2026. The most common reasons are on the Item and service information page.

How Care Carta decides

Validator completed with no mapped drug-information conditional or value error.

Scope: Drug information is conditionally required when an NDC code is present.

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.drug_units@1
Replaced
hpt.mrf.item.drug_units

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