cms-hpt.txt links this hospital's MRF

What it checks

That cms-hpt.txt file points to this hospital's price file.

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 an entry is identified as this hospital's, from the lenient parse, in order: the document declares a single MRF; exactly one declaration carries the hospital's name (compared without case or punctuation, never fuzzily); or, identified by the planner, exactly one declared MRF declares the hospital's Type 2 NPI in its own header. Fails when the TXT declares no usable MRF URL. Indeterminate when no entry can be identified (TXT_ENTRY_UNIDENTIFIED; a name that differs from the catalog's is never a failure) or the TXT could not be read, which is counted once, against hpt.txt.conforms.

Version

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