# HCRIS Hospital Cost Report Staffing Search

> HCRIS Hospital Cost Report Staffing Search is a paid API for AI agents from api.govparse.io, paid per call via x402, $1.25/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Search CMS Medicare Hospital Provider Cost Reports (HCRIS S-3) by state, CCN, name, fiscal year, or size to retrieve staffing FTEs, beds, discharges, salaries, and computed staffing ratios.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.govparse.io/v1/hcris/cost-reports/search
- Price: $1.25/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/hcris-hospital-cost-report-staffing-search-e2ecac35
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_ZX5z3JLKQdL5-Q9KW-ZMB

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 hcris-hospital-cost-report-staffing-search-e2ecac35
```

Example prompt: Pull the Medicare cost report staffing data for all hospitals in Texas with at least 100 beds for fiscal year 2023 — I want to see FTE employees, beds, discharges, and the FTE-per-bed ratio, sorted by number of beds descending.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need structured Medicare cost report staffing data — FTEs, beds, discharges, salaries, and staffing ratios — sourced directly from CMS HCRIS S-3 filings. Prefer this over general hospital directories when the goal is workforce analytics, cost benchmarking, or regulatory research using standardized CMS public-domain data. It supports flexible filtering by geography, hospital identity, size, ownership type, and year.

## Known failure modes

- No matching records found for the specified filters (returns empty results)
- Invalid CCN format causes no match
- Unrecognized state code or control_type fragment returns empty set
- Exceeding the cap of 100 records per call
- Fiscal years outside the available HCRIS dataset range return no results
- Malformed sort parameter may return an error or default sort

## How this service works

What does a hospital's Medicare cost report show for staffing? Search the flattened HCRIS S-3 (CMS 'Hospital Provider Cost Report') by state, CCN, name, fiscal year, control_type, or min_beds. Returns FTE employees, beds, discharges, salaries, contract labor, plus computed FTE-per-bed and FTE-per-1k-discharges staffing ratios. CMS public-domain records.

## Output

Returns a list of matching hospital cost report records from the HCRIS S-3 dataset, each containing: hospital name, CCN, state, fiscal year, FTE employee count, number of beds, total discharges, total salaries, contract labor costs, computed FTE-per-bed ratio, and FTE-per-1k-discharges staffing ratio. Results are paginated via limit and offset.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [],
   "properties": {
    "ccn": {
     "type": "string",
     "examples": [
      "450078"
     ],
     "description": "Provider CCN(s), CSV."
    },
    "name": {
     "type": "string",
     "examples": [
      "Memorial"
     ],
     "description": "Hospital name fragment."
    },
    "sort": {
     "type": "string",
     "examples": [
      "number_of_beds:desc"
     ],
     "description": "fte_employees | number_of_beds | total_discharges | fiscal_year :asc|:desc."
    },
    "year": {
     "type": "string",
     "examples": [
      "2023"
     ],
     "description": "Fiscal year(s), CSV."
    },
    "limit": {
     "type": "integer",
     "examples": [
      25
     ],
     "description": "Max rows (default 25, cap 100)."
    },
    "state": {
     "type": "string",
     "examples": [
      "TX"
     ],
     "description": "Hospital state code(s), CSV."
    },
    "offset": {
     "type": "integer",
     "examples": [
      0
     ],
     "description": "Rows to skip."
    },
    "min_beds": {
     "type": "string",
     "examples": [
      "100"
     ],
     "description": "Minimum number of beds."
    },
    "control_type": {
     "type": "string",
     "examples": [
      "Proprietary"
     ],
     "description": "Type of control fragment."
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

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