Verified public data sources
The public datasets that power every profile.
Phoenix Health Compass aggregates only from public, non-commercial healthcare datasets. Each source below links to the primary provider so you can verify any record yourself.
CMS Care Compare
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
The federal source of truth for hospital quality and patient experience metrics.
- Cadence
- Refreshed quarterly
- Fields
- Hospital star ratings · Readmission rates · Mortality index · HCAHPS patient experience
NPI Registry
National Plan & Provider Enumeration System (CMS)
The authoritative identifier registry for every practicing U.S. healthcare provider.
- Cadence
- Refreshed weekly
- Fields
- NPI number · Provider taxonomy · Practice addresses
State Medical Boards
Federation of State Medical Boards & member boards
Every U.S. state publishes physician license status and public disciplinary actions. Phoenix maps all 50 states + DC for verification links; automated structured ingest is currently live for California and Virginia, with additional boards added as feeds and agreements allow.
- Cadence
- Verification links nationwide; structured ingest live for CA & VA
- Fields
- License status · Board actions · Practice restrictions
Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade
The Leapfrog Group
An independent, peer-reviewed grade of how well hospitals protect patients from preventable harm.
- Cadence
- Refreshed twice yearly
- Fields
- A–F safety grade · Infection scores · Never-event indicators
AHRQ
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Federal research agency providing evidence-based benchmarks for care quality and patient safety.
- Cadence
- Refreshed annually
- Fields
- Patient safety indicators · Care quality benchmarks
U.S. News Best Hospitals
U.S. News & World Report
Used as a secondary reference for specialty and pediatric hospital rankings.
- Cadence
- Refreshed annually
- Fields
- Specialty rankings · Pediatric rankings
State court records
State judicial branches
Where public case-level data is available, we link directly to the court's own docket.
- Cadence
- Refreshed continuously where APIs exist
- Fields
- Malpractice case dispositions where publicly available
A note on completeness
Not every U.S. state publishes malpractice or disciplinary data at the same level of detail, and not every board is connected for automated ingest yet. A profile displaying "no public actions" reflects the absence of a record in the datasets we reviewed — not a certification that none exists. When a source does not publish a data point, or when we have not yet checked that board, we say so on the profile rather than filling the gap with an estimate.