# CMS Hospital Star Rating Benchmarks

> CMS Hospital Star Rating Benchmarks is a paid API for AI agents from www.stratalize.com, paid per call via x402, $0.02/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns CMS Hospital Star Rating methodology data including domain weights, national distribution benchmarks, and improvement priorities for a given hospital.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://www.stratalize.com/api/x402/cms-star-rating
- Price: $0.02/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/cms-hospital-star-rating-benchmarks-4ad8fae6
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_2bNc6JEQnOdb_J_FgMEsT

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability cms-hospital-star-rating-benchmarks-4ad8fae6
```

Example prompt: What would Memorial General Hospital in Texas need to focus on to improve its CMS star rating — it's currently rated 3 stars?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when an AI agent or healthcare consultant needs to advise a hospital on CMS star rating strategy, understand the methodology and domain weights behind ratings, or benchmark a hospital's current performance against national distributions. Prefer this over generic web search when you need structured, programmatic, cryptographically-verified CMS methodology data that can be consumed directly in an agent workflow.

## Known failure modes

- Hospital name not found or ambiguous — returns empty or partial results
- Invalid state code provided — parameter validation error
- Current star rating outside 1-5 range — schema validation error
- Payment of 0.02 USDC not processed — 402 Payment Required response
- Service unavailable — upstream CMS data feed may be temporarily down

## How this service works

Stratalize — attested finance, legal, healthcare, and compliance intelligence. Signed, independently verifiable receipt on every call (trust.stratalize.com/verify). CMS Hospital Star Rating methodology — domain weights, national distribution benchmarks, and improvement priorities. Source: CMS Care Compare methodology. Use when advising on star rating strategy or benchmarking a hospital's quality performance trajectory

## Output

Returns CMS Hospital Star Rating methodology details including domain weights used in scoring, national distribution of hospitals across star rating tiers, and prioritized improvement areas tailored to the hospital's current rating level. Response is ML-DSA-65 cryptographically signed and independently verifiable at trust.stratalize.com/verify.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "state": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Request parameter: state"
  },
  "hospital_name": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Request parameter: hospital name"
  },
  "current_star_rating": {
   "type": "number",
   "maximum": 5,
   "minimum": 1,
   "description": "Request parameter: current star rating"
  }
 }
}
```

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