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Check a nursing home’s inspection record, or a surgeon’s, before you decide

Two reports, in any US state, for the two moments when a family has days rather than months: a hospital discharge to a nursing home, and a date already booked for elective surgery. Both are built from federal inspection, penalty, ownership, Medicare billing and industry payment records, and both list dated records rather than scoring anyone.

Records, not ratings. These reports list dated inspection, enforcement and licensing records. They never score, grade or rank a named facility or doctor.

Free first

Three free health lookups, in every US state

Each gives you the finding itself — all 14,690 Medicare-certified nursing homes, and every clinician in the federal Open Payments file. Nothing is held back to make a paid record look better.

Free tools

No payment, no account

  • Nursing home lookup and compareFree · All US states$0

    Look up any Medicare-certified nursing home: the four CMS star ratings, beds and ownership type, nurse hours and staff turnover against that state’s median, health citations counted by the harm level inspectors recorded, fire-safety citations, fines and payment denials, and the last standard survey date. Up to three side by side.

  • Nursing home owner networkFree · All US states$0

    Who else does this home’s owner run? Every owner CMS publishes for a home with role and percentage, then every other home whose federal ownership filing names that same owner, each with its rating, citation counts and fines. Searchable by owner name.

  • Doctor payments lookupFree · All US states$0

    What drug and device companies reported paying a clinician in 2024–2025 under the Sunshine Act: totals by year, the companies, what the payments were for, the products named, and the median for the same specialty in the same state. Search by surname and state or by NPI.

The free lookup behind the Surgeon Record is the doctor payments lookup: it gives you the industry-payment half of that report in full. The $49 report adds what the free tool does not hold — the clinician’s Medicare procedure volumes beside the middle half of the same specialty in the same state, and their state license, public discipline and board certification read on the boards’ own sites for your order and dated. Every free tool on the site.

Research and guides

What the nursing home and clinician records show

Free, computed from the same CMS files, with the method and the limits printed on each page.

Paid reports in this domain

Two reports, both built and checked

Nursing Home Record

On sale$69

Compare up to three nursing homes

Discharge to a nursing home is days away and you have a shortlist.

For
Adult children, elder-law attorneys and care managers
Deadline
Hospital discharge, often within days
Where
All US states and territories (up to three homes in one state per report)
Records
Federal inspections, penalties, staffing and ownership for Medicare-certified nursing homes: a side-by-side checklist, repeat problems, the record of each owner’s other homes, and questions drawn from each home’s own citations. Assisted living is licensed by states, not Medicare, so it isn’t covered.

Report built on the loaded federal records and checked figure by figure against them. Reports are emailed within 2 business days.

Surgeon Record: Medicare volume, license and payments

On sale$49

Look up a surgeon’s record

Elective surgery is scheduled and you want to check the surgeon first.

For
Patients before elective surgery
Deadline
The scheduled surgery date
Where
All US states (volumes compared with the same specialty in the surgeon’s state)
Records
State license, public discipline and board certification as the boards’ own websites show them, checked for each order; Medicare procedure volumes against the same specialty in the surgeon’s state (mostly patients 65 and over; small counts are suppressed by Medicare); the national provider registry; and industry payments.

Report built on national Medicare, provider registry and industry payment records and checked against them; license and certification are checked on the boards’ websites when your order is processed. Reports are emailed within 2 business days.

Same standard

One method across every report

These reports use the same checks, citations and limits statement as the property reports: every figure carries its dataset and capture date, and absence of a record is never reported as clearance.

Read the method

The 13 federal datasets behind these reports · where each report works · free tools and lookup guides

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