MRF correctly encodes the inpatient or outpatient setting

What it checks

Each item or service says whether it is provided as an inpatient, an outpatient, or both.

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

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 setting error.

Scope: setting is required and restricted to inpatient, outpatient, or both.

Depends on: The CMS validator finished

Version

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