Care Carta

MRF passes the CMS validator without errors

§180.50(c)(2)

What it checks

The price file passes CMS's own validator without errors.

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 84%Failed 4%Blocked 11%Couldn't determine 1%

Results as of Oct 5, 2026. The most common reasons are on the CMS file format page.

How Care Carta decides

Validator completed and reported valid with no errors; alerts remain separately mapped.

Scope: Umbrella validity reported by the pinned official validator.

Depends on: MRF downloads to an automated client

Version

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

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