cms-hpt.txt is published and uses the required fields

What it checks

The hospital's website has a cms-hpt.txt file, the short text file that points to its price files, using the fields CMS requires.

Checked by Care Carta. Care Carta's own check, for a requirement CMS's validator does not test.

How hospitals did

Results as of Oct 5, 2026. The most common reasons are on the Publication and accessibility page.

How Care Carta decides

Passes when the TXT is retrieved and strictly follows the required field names and values; fails when it does not, when it is missing (404, 410), or when a refusal, web page in place of the file, or server error also happened on an earlier day. Indeterminate when CareCarta has no TXT URL (SOURCE_URL_UNKNOWN) or the download failed otherwise (FETCH_FAILED).

Version

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