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Every Medicare-certified hospital in the US must file an annual cost report with CMS. It is the only public source of complete financials for every American hospital: income statement, balance sheet, utilization, staffing, and charity care. AskCostReports loads CMS's curated extract — 117 measures per hospital per year — into your browser and lets you query it by asking questions.
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Cost reports trail real time by one to two years: hospitals file about five months after their fiscal year ends, and CMS audits and publishes in batches. Every analytics vendor works from these same publications. This app refreshes itself automatically when CMS publishes new data.
Because it answers structural questions, the way an annual report does. Cost per bed, payer mix, margins, charity care burden, how a hospital compares to its peers — these move on a scale of years, not weeks. Nobody complains that a 10-K is nine months old. And since every hospital files on the same cycle, nobody has fresher numbers than these: analysts compete on how well they read the filings, not on recency.
Figures are as filed and can be restated later. Fiscal years vary by hospital, so group by report year for trends. Small specialty facilities file alongside general acute-care hospitals — pick peer groups thoughtfully. And the AI can write an imperfect query: every answer shows its work so you can verify before you rely on a number.
The dataset loads into your browser and stays there. Your questions and the query results go to the AI to compose answers; the raw data never does. No accounts, no tracking. The database is a read-only copy in your tab — nothing you run can change anything for anyone else.
This is what you can ask about — every hospital's filing has these fields. Values shown are one real filing, so you can see what the data looks like.
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Every Medicare-certified hospital files an annual cost report — the only public source of complete financials for nearly every American hospital. Ask a question; the AI writes the query, runs it in your browser, and shows its work.