Launching Q1 2026, MRF Monitor standardizes CMS transparency oversight with
automated monthly scans, structured compliance findings, a centralized MRF
library, extracted CMS index-file fields, and complete metadata capture from
every machine-readable file.
CMS created the transparency rule not only to enforce compliance, but to ensure
pricing data is consistently accessible and easy to consume. When hospitals publish
compliant files, their data becomes far more usable for patients, partners, and
downstream systems.
MRF Monitor is built by a team with more than five years of hands-on experience sourcing, validating, and analyzing hospital price transparency files for enterprise healthcare organizations. We’ve worked directly with the operational realities of the CMS rule — from inconsistent publishing practices to complex metadata issues and evolving enforcement standards.
Our team understands the compliance requirements, the common failure points, and the downstream impact non-compliant files have on data usability. We’ve taken that firsthand experience and transformed it into a purpose-built platform designed to standardize, monitor, and simplify CMS transparency compliance at scale.
CMS created the Hospital Price Transparency Rule to make pricing data easier to find, understand, and consume. Yet hospitals vary significantly in how they publish their machine-readable files, introducing challenges in both compliance and data usability.
Common issues include:
These inconsistencies make pricing data difficult for hospitals, payers, regulators, researchers, and analytics teams to reliably consume — directly undermining CMS’s goal of creating clear, accessible, and usable data.
Compliance improves data usability. MRF Monitor provides the structure and repeatability needed to achieve both.
Automated, repeatable evaluations aligned with CMS transparency requirements — including index-file presence, accessibility checks, metadata validation, and file-level monitoring.
We verify the required cms-hpt.txt file exists, is accessible, and
includes all mandated fields, ensuring stakeholders can reliably locate and
consume published pricing data.
Access validated machine-readable files from a single source of truth. Confirmed URLs, downloadable files, structured metadata, and traceable version history eliminate the need to navigate fragmented hospital websites.
Track discrepancies in facility names, URLs, contacts, and reported locations. Identify unreported changes and maintain an accurate view of each facility’s publishing practices.
Each hospital receives a clear compliance status for each compliance check — pass, warning, or fail — supported by detailed findings suitable for audit review, regulatory documentation, and internal reporting.
Visualize whether a facility’s compliance posture is improving or declining over time. Identify recurring issues and anticipate potential enforcement risks. Coming Soon
Choose the individual hospital locations you want to track. Each facility is monitored independently to ensure accurate, facility-specific compliance evaluation.
The platform retrieves each hospital’s cms_hpt.txt index file and
associated MRFs, validating accessibility, required fields, metadata integrity,
and file-level structure using standardized collection procedures.
Every month, MRF Monitor re-evaluates compliance status and tracks changes in publishing behavior — alerting you to missing files, URL changes, inconsistencies, or deviations from CMS requirements.
View clear, structured results including compliance scoring, missing or inaccessible files, updated URLs, facility discrepancies, and other patterns that impact data usability.
Every validated file is available through the centralized MRF Library, with confirmed URLs, metadata, and historical versions preserved for audit, ingestion, and downstream system use.
Monitor your own compliance posture, identify gaps in publishing practices, and strengthen audit readiness with standardized, verifiable findings.
Gain consistent, independent visibility into facility compliance — without relying on hospital self-reporting or manual verification.
Support advisory work with validated compliance assessments, structured findings, and documentation ready for audits or regulatory inquiries.
Analyze compliance patterns across regions, facility types, and over time using standardized data from facilities nationwide.
Ensure downstream analytics pipelines begin with compliant, validated files — reducing ingestion errors and improving data reliability.
CMS created the transparency rule to ensure pricing data is clear, accurate, and easy to consume — not simply to enforce compliance. When hospitals publish compliant files, the entire ecosystem benefits: patients gain clarity, analytics teams reduce friction, and downstream systems can rely on structured, machine-readable data.
Compliance creates clarity. MRF Monitor ensures the data you rely on is complete, validated, and consistently structured.
MRF Monitor validates the cms-hpt.txt index file, confirms accessible and functioning source-page and MRF URLs,
checks all required fields, verifies facility listing accuracy, evaluates metadata elements required by CMS,
and performs schema-level validation to ensure MRF files are structured correctly.
Monthly. Each scan reevaluates file presence, accessibility, URL changes, metadata consistency, and other compliance indicators.
Yes — every verified MRF surfaced during compliance checks is available through the centralized MRF Library for easy access and downstream use.
No. All files are preserved exactly as published. MRF Monitor validates them, records metadata, and provides standardized access but does not alter file contents.
MRF Monitor provides structured compliance findings within the platform. While export capabilities are not yet available, they are planned for a future release.
MRF Monitor launches in Q1 2026. Join the early-access list to see how closely the hospitals you track align with CMS price transparency requirements