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Data Methodology

Government data.
Nothing else.

Every data point in an AuditPoint report is directly traceable to a named primary federal source. Derived metrics — scores, composites, benchmarks — are labeled as AuditPoint analysis with government inputs listed. This page documents what we use, how we use it, and what we don't.

Primary Data Sources — Healthcare & Freight

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CMS Provider Data Catalog
The authoritative federal database of Medicare/Medicaid-certified providers. Updated monthly. Paginated API with 1,500-row caps — full ingestion requires sequential pagination.
Overall star ratings (1–5 scale)
Health inspection ratings and deficiency history
Staffing ratings and hours per resident day
Quality measure ratings (long-stay and short-stay)
Special Focus Facility designation status
Ownership type and chain affiliation
Abuse icon and penalty history (count and dollar)
CMS.gov · Federal
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Payroll-Based Journal (PBJ)
CMS-mandated daily staffing submission from every certified SNF. The most granular federal staffing dataset available — captures actual worked hours by staff type, not self-reported estimates.
RN hours per resident day (actual, not reported)
LPN and CNA hours per resident day
Weekend staffing coverage
Zero-RN-day frequency per quarter
Contract vs. employee staff composition
11-quarter history (Q1 2023 – Q1 2026)
CMS PBJ · Federal
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HCRIS Cost Reports (CMS-1728-20)
Annual financial cost reports submitted by every Medicare-participating SNF, home health agency, and hospice provider. The only federal source for facility-level financial data including revenue, costs, and payer mix.
Total revenue and operating costs
Operating margin (derived)
Medicare, Medicaid, and private pay day mix
Cost per visit (home health)
Case mix index
HCRIS · Federal
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HHVBP Performance Data
CMS Home Health Value-Based Purchasing program scores for all participating agencies. The federal accountability system for home health quality — 41% of agencies fall outside its measurement threshold.
Total performance score (0–100)
Payment adjustment percentage
VBP participation status
Benchmark comparisons (national and state)
CMS HHVBP · Federal
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FMCSA Safety Database
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration records for all registered commercial carriers. Refreshed daily. The authoritative source for carrier operating authority, safety ratings, and crash history.
Operating authority status (active / inactive)
Safety rating (satisfactory / conditional / unsatisfactory)
Crash records (24-month and all-time)
Vehicle and driver out-of-service rates
Insurance filing history and cancellations
SMS BASICs scores (7 categories)
FMCSA · Federal
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Census ACS County Data
American Community Survey 5-year estimates at the county level. Used to contextualize provider markets — population age distribution, density, and demographic factors that affect demand and access.
Population 65+ by county
Population density classification
Rural / urban classification
Care desert scoring inputs
U.S. Census Bureau · Federal

Primary Data Sources — Banking

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FDIC Call Reports
Quarterly financial reports filed by all FDIC-insured institutions. The primary spine of the Bank Health Score. 1,131,904 quarterly records ingested from 1992 to present.
Capital adequacy — Tier 1 ratio, risk-based capital ratio
Asset quality — noncurrent loan ratio, net charge-off rate
Earnings — ROA, net interest margin, efficiency ratio
Liquidity — loan-to-deposit ratio, uninsured deposit %
CRE concentration — construction and domestic RE loans vs. equity
Federal · Quarterly
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FDIC Enforcement Actions
All formal enforcement actions issued by the FDIC against supervised institutions — consent orders, cease and desist orders, civil money penalties, and removal/prohibition orders.
Action type — C&D, consent order, civil money penalty
Effective date and termination date
Active vs. terminated status
10,841 total actions · 8,113 active
Federal · Monthly update
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FFIEC CRA Ratings
Community Reinvestment Act examination ratings published by the FFIEC. CRA ratings below Satisfactory are a regulatory constraint on M&A activity and branch expansion.
Overall rating — Outstanding, Satisfactory, Needs to Improve, Substantial Noncompliance
Examination date
83,093 ratings ingested · historical record from 1990
Federal · Annual
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FDIC Summary of Deposits
Annual branch-level deposit data for every FDIC-insured institution. Used to assess franchise footprint, deposit market share, and geographic concentration.
Branch-level deposit balances
Geographic footprint — states and MSAs
76,120 branches · $18T total deposits · 2025 vintage
Federal · Annual
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OSHA Enforcement Data
Federal OSHA inspection and violation records dating to 1970. Includes citation type (willful, repeat, serious), penalty amounts, abatement dates, fatality flags, and severe injury reports (amputations, hospitalizations, eye loss) since January 2015.
5.16M inspections · 1970–2026 · all federal jurisdictions
12.77M violation records · $6.51B in current penalties
103,750 severe injury reports · 27,369 amputations
Federal · Quarterly
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DOL Wage & Hour Division
Department of Labor WHD investigation records covering wage theft, FLSA violations, child labor violations, and civil money penalties. Every investigation with findings is documented with back wages recovered and violation counts.
365,393 investigations with findings
$4.73B in documented back wages recovered
FLSA violation counts · repeat violator flags · CMP amounts
Federal · Quarterly
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FFIEC Call Report — Schedule RC-B
FFIEC bulk Call Report data for securities holdings. Contains held-to-maturity (HTM) and available-for-sale (AFS) unrealized gains and losses — the primary input for SVB-pattern failure mode detection in Bank Health Score v2.0. Q1 2026 vintage. 4,262 records ingested.
HTM and AFS amortized cost and fair value
HTM and AFS unrealized gains / losses by security category
Total unrealized loss as % of Tier 1 equity capital (derived)
Bank of America 33.8%, Wells Fargo 20.8% — validates against public disclosures
FFIEC · Quarterly
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FFIEC Call Report — Schedule RC-O
FFIEC bulk Call Report schedule for deposit insurance assessment data. Contains RCON5597 — the bank's self-reported estimate of uninsured deposits, the authoritative figure used by the FDIC for insurance assessment. Preferred over FDIC API estimate for large institutions. Mandatory reporters: banks with assets above $1B. 1,006 institutions with non-null values ingested.
RCON5597 — estimated uninsured deposits (self-reported by institution)
Coverage: institutions with assets > $1B (mandatory reporters)
Preferred input for B-03 cliff penalty calculation when available
FFIEC · Quarterly

Primary Data Sources — NonProfits

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IRS Form 990 (TEOS)
Annual information returns filed by tax-exempt organizations with revenues above $200,000. Published by the IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search (TEOS) system as machine-readable XML. Full 990 filers only — 990-EZ and 990-PF excluded. Multi-year ingest: 2022–2025.
Total revenue, expenses, and program service revenue
Net assets / fund balances (end of year)
Program service expense ratio
Executive compensation — Part VII (all employees > $100K) and Schedule J
Filing date, tax year, and EIN
NTEE activity code (via BMF join)
IRS TEOS · Federal · Annual
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IRS Business Master File (BMF)
The IRS master registry of all tax-exempt organizations recognized under IRC Section 501. Published as regional CSV files covering all 50 states plus DC and territories. 1,949,737 records ingested. Provides organization classification and 501(c) subsection not present in Form 990 filings.
EIN (9-digit, zero-padded) — primary join key to Form 990 filings
NTEE classification code — 25 peer groups used for program efficiency benchmarking
501(c) subsection — distinguishes 501(c)(3) public charities from trade associations, social clubs, etc.
IRS subsection code and affiliation type
Income and asset amount classifications
IRS SOI · Federal · Annual

Primary Data Sources — Hospice

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CMS Hospice Quality Reporting Program
CMS-mandated quality measures for Medicare-certified hospice providers. Includes HOPE (Hospice Outcomes and Patient Evaluation) assessments submitted at admission and discharge. 465,181 measure records across 6,943 providers ingested from the CMS Provider Data Catalog.
HOPE H_008_01 — Comprehensive Assessment at Admission (primary care quality signal)
HIS quality measures — admission and discharge assessment composite
HVLDL — Hospice Visits in Last Days of Life (abandonment proxy)
Summary star ratings (1–5 scale)
CMS.GOV · Federal
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CMS CAHPS Hospice Survey
Family caregiver experience survey administered following a patient's death. The federal standard for hospice patient experience measurement. Nine CAHPS measures per provider covering care delivery, communication, and willingness to recommend. 173,575 records ingested.
Overall rating — caregivers who rated hospice 9 or 10 (top-box %)
Willingness to recommend (top-box %)
Eight additional experience dimensions including communication and emotional support
CAHPS family caregiver summary star rating (1–5)
CMS.GOV · Federal
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CMS Hospice Care Index (Claims-Based)
CMS claims-based composite measure reflecting utilization patterns associated with hospice fraud and care integrity. Derived entirely from Medicare claims — not provider self-report. The HCI score and 10 sub-indicators are the primary fraud-signal inputs in the Hospice Compliance Index. One record per provider. 6,943 records ingested.
HCI overall score (0–10) and national percentile rank
Late live discharge rate — primary fraud detection signal
Continuous home care (CHC) and GIP utilization rates
Burdensome transitions (Types 1 and 2)
Skilled nursing visit gaps and per-beneficiary spending outliers
CMS.GOV · Federal

Primary Data Sources — Federal Contractors

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USASpending.gov Award Data Archive
Annual contract award archives published by the U.S. Treasury. Full transaction-level obligation data for every federal contract, FY2021–FY2025. Five annual archive files ingested — approximately 1.8GB compressed each, 33M rows total. The authoritative federal source for vendor obligation history, agency exposure, and contract type composition.
Recipient UEI and legal name — primary entity identifier
Awarding agency (top-level and sub-agency)
Obligation amount per transaction and cumulative per fiscal year
Contract type — fixed-price, cost-reimbursement, IDV, grant, other
NAICS code and place of performance
33,090,050 award records · FY2021–FY2025 · 159,091 unique vendors
USASpending.gov · Federal · Annual
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SAM.gov Active Exclusions
System for Award Management public extract of all active debarments, suspensions, proposed debarments, and voluntary exclusions. Published by the General Services Administration. Every entity prohibited from receiving federal awards is listed with the excluding agency, exclusion type, and effective date. 167,617 records ingested from the V2 public extract.
UEI — matched to USASpending vendor universe on exact key
Exclusion type — debarment, suspension, proposed debarment, voluntary exclusion
Excluding agency and effective date
163 exclusion-matched vendors with documented FY2025 obligation history
Combined FY2025 obligations among matched vendors: $202.7M
SAM.gov · GSA · Federal
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FFIEC Call Report — Schedule RC-N
FFIEC bulk Call Report data for past due and nonaccrual loans. The primary forward-looking credit quality signal in Bank Health Score v2.1. Institution-level delinquency data by category — not available from the FDIC BankFind API. Q1 2026 vintage. 4,262 records ingested with 99.8% nonaccrual coverage.
RCFD/RCON1403 — Total loans past due 30–89 days, accruing
RCFD/RCON1406 — Total nonaccrual loans
RCFD/RCON1407 — Total loans past due 90 or more days, accruing
Noncurrent total — nonaccrual + past due 90+ (primary Asset Quality input)
RCFD prefix takes precedence; RCON used as fallback for smaller institutions
FFIEC CDR · Federal · Quarterly
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USDA FSIS — Meat & Poultry Inspection Directory + Recall Database
USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service establishment registry and recall history. The authoritative federal source for food safety compliance across slaughter and processing facilities. 6,940 establishments and 1,217 recall records ingested. Powers the FoodGuard vertical and cross-vertical dual-flag analysis with WorkRecord employer compliance data.
6,940 FSIS-inspected establishments — slaughter (1,374) and processing (5,851)
1,217 recall records — Class I (824), Class II (187), Public Health Alerts (163)
52.3M pounds of product recalled across all records
EIN-matched to employer_compliance_scores — 1,942 verified cross-vertical links
Recall classification, reason, product description, and pounds recovered per event
USDA FSIS · Federal · Annual

AuditPoint-Derived Metrics

SNF Compliance Tier
Three-tier classification derived from CMS star rating and SFF designation. Non-compliant: SFF/SFF Candidate or rating ≤ 2. At-risk: rating 3. Compliant: rating ≥ 4.
Inputs: CMS overall_rating · special_focus_facility
Staffing Opportunity Score
Composite score for staffing agency prospecting. Combines RN HPRD gap vs. CMS benchmark, contract staff dependency, zero-RN-day frequency, and stability trend. Outputs LOW / MOD / HIGH / URGENT.
Inputs: PBJ rn_hprd · contract_pct · zero_rn_days · stability_score
HHA Overall Grade
Letter grade (A through F) derived from quality outcome score, patient experience score, VBP performance, and growth trajectory. Grades are AuditPoint analysis — not a CMS designation.
Inputs: CMS quality score · HHVBP score · HHCAHPS · trajectory
Acquisition Attractiveness
Composite scoring for acquisition screening. Weights compliance history, financial stability, payer mix, staffing quality, and market position. Labeled as AuditPoint analysis in all reports.
Inputs: HCRIS financials · CMS ratings · PBJ staffing · payer mix
WeighStation Score
100-point composite carrier risk score. Components: safety (FMCSA records), crash risk (24-month window), insurance stability (cancellation history), authority integrity (revocation history).
Inputs: FMCSA SMS · crash records · insurance filings · authority history
Bank Health Score
100-point composite bank health score. Five components: Capital Adequacy (25%), Asset Quality (25%), Earnings (20%), Liquidity (15%), Regulatory Standing (15%). Risk tiers: STRONG (80–100), ADEQUATE (60–79), WATCH (40–59), STRESSED (0–39). Version 2.1 (June 2026) added FFIEC RC-N loan delinquency data (Q1 2026) as the primary Asset Quality input, replacing FDIC API noncurrent ratios with fresher institution-level delinquency data. Version 2.0 (May 2026) introduced an updated uninsured deposit penalty schedule, a tier cap preventing STRONG classification for institutions with >75% uninsured deposits, and a Run Architecture Flag identifying institutions matching the SVB/First Republic deposit concentration pattern. Methodology informed by FDIC Staff Study “Dissecting Depositor Flight” (Chu et al., 2026).
Inputs: FDIC Call Reports · FDIC Enforcement Actions · FFIEC CRA Ratings · FFIEC RC-B · FFIEC RC-O · FFIEC RC-N
WorkRecord Score
100-point composite employer compliance score. Four components: OSHA Violation Severity (35%), OSHA Inspection Frequency (25%), WHD Wage Compliance (25%), Severe Injury Record (15%). Risk tiers: CLEAN (80–100), MONITORED (60–79), CITED (40–59), CRITICAL (0–39).
Inputs: OSHA inspections · OSHA violations · OSHA severe injuries · DOL WHD investigations
Market Density Score
Agency or facility density relative to population 65+ by county. High density = competitive market. Very low density = potential care desert. Used in HH acquisition and state market reports.
Inputs: Census ACS 65+ population · provider count per county
NonProfits Score
100-point composite score for tax-exempt organizations. Four components: Financial Sustainability (30%), Program Efficiency (25%), Executive Accountability (25%), Transparency (20%). Peer-group benchmarking via NTEE classification (25 groups). Risk tiers: STRONG (75–100), STABLE (50–74), WATCH (25–49), CRITICAL (0–24).
Inputs: IRS Form 990 financials · Part VII exec comp · Schedule J · IRS BMF NTEE code
Hospice Compliance Index
100-point composite score for Medicare-certified hospice providers. Five components: Utilization Integrity (30%), Care Quality (25%), Patient Experience (20%), Financial Integrity (15%), Enrollment & Ownership Risk (10%). National norms bootstrapped from live CMS claims data (mean 37.31, SD 15.84). Risk tiers: COMPLIANT (75–100), MONITOR (50–74), ELEVATED (25–49), CRITICAL (0–24). Model scored all 6,943 providers on 2026-05-14 before CMS suspension list release — computed_at timestamp preserved as permanent audit trail.
Inputs: CMS Hospice Care Index (claims) · CAHPS Hospice Survey · HOPE/HIS quality measures · HCRIS cost reports · CMS provider enrollment data
Contractor Risk Score
100-point composite vendor risk score for federal contractors. Four components: Federal Dependency (35%) — obligation volume and YoY trend, adjusted for large commercial entities where federal revenue is incidental; Agency Concentration (30%) — HHI across awarding agencies, with elevated penalty for DOGE-risk civilian agency exposure; Contract Type Mix (20%) — fixed-price vs. cost-reimbursement vs. IDV composition; Exclusion & Integrity (15%) — SAM.gov active exclusion status, exclusion history, and flag severity. Risk tiers: STABLE (65–100), WATCH (45–64), EXPOSED (25–44), CRITICAL (0–24). DOGE-risk flag applied independently to 11,202 vendors with >50% obligation concentration in identified high-exposure civilian agencies.
Inputs: USASpending.gov award archives · SAM.gov active exclusions · HHI concentration calculation · YoY obligation trend (FY2023–FY2025)

Data Integrity Principles

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Primary sources only
Every data point traces to CMS, HCRIS, PBJ, FMCSA, FDIC, FFIEC, OSHA, DOL, or IRS. No third-party aggregators, no survey data, no estimates.
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Derived metrics are labeled
Any metric computed by AuditPoint — scores, composites, tiers — is explicitly labeled as AuditPoint analysis in every report. Government inputs are listed alongside it.
03
Vintage displayed on every report
Every report shows the data vintage — the data vintage for every source — CMS quarter, HCRIS fiscal year, FMCSA refresh date, FDIC Call Report quarter, and IRS tax year. Buyers know exactly how current the data is.
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No editorial opinion
AuditPoint does not characterize providers or carriers as "good" or "bad." We report what the federal data shows. Interpretation is the buyer's responsibility.
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Monthly refresh cadence
SNF and HH data refreshes monthly via automated CMS pipeline. Carrier data refreshes daily from FMCSA. Bank data refreshes quarterly following FDIC Call Report publication. Employer compliance data (OSHA + DOL WHD) refreshes quarterly. Nonprofit organization data (IRS Form 990) refreshes annually as IRS publishes new TEOS XML batches; the current vintage covers tax years 2022–2025. Federal contractor data (USASpending award archives) refreshes annually following Treasury publication of fiscal year archive files; the current vintage covers FY2021–FY2025. Refresh timestamps are stored and displayed per report.
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AuditPoint scores are not official government designations
The Bank Health Score and risk tiers (STRONG / ADEQUATE / WATCH / STRESSED), the WeighStation Score and risk tiers (GREEN / YELLOW / RED), CareIndex compliance tiers (COMPLIANT / AT RISK / NON-COMPLIANT), the WorkRecord Score and risk tiers (CLEAN / MONITORED / CITED / CRITICAL), the NonProfits Score and risk tiers (STRONG / STABLE / WATCH / CRITICAL), and the F-01.1 Contractor Risk Score and risk tiers (STABLE / WATCH / EXPOSED / CRITICAL) are AuditPoint derived analytical outputs. They are not official designations issued by the FDIC, FMCSA, CMS, OSHA, DOL, IRS, or any other federal agency. All government source inputs are disclosed alongside every derived metric.

Current Data Vintage

CMS PDC / PBJ
Q1 2026
HCRIS Financials
FY2025
FMCSA Carriers
May 2026
FDIC Call Reports
Q4 2025
FDIC Enforcement
May 2026
FFIEC CRA Ratings
Oct 2025
IRS Form 990
2022–2025
FFIEC RC-B / RC-O / RC-N
Q1 2026
USASpending Awards
FY2021–2025
SAM.gov Exclusions
May 2026
Last Refresh
June 2026