Provider Data Catalog
Citation Code Look-up
This is a look-up table for nursing home inspection citations, providing a text description for each citation or tag code.
Freshness
- Last posted
- Period covered
- Update frequency
- Next update
Dates as CMS lists them in its catalog. CMS last changed the data itself on Sep 30, 2026.
Columns 5
The Provider Data Catalog lists only column headers in machine-readable form. Full definitions are in the data dictionary.
| Column | What it means | Type |
|---|---|---|
Deficiency Prefixdeficiency_prefix | text | |
Deficiency Tag Numberdeficiency_tag_number | text | |
Deficiency Prefix and Numberdeficiency_prefix_and_number | text | |
Deficiency Descriptiondeficiency_description | text | |
Deficiency Categorydeficiency_category | text |
No column matches that filter.
At a glance
- Catalog
- Provider Data Catalog
- Publisher
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
- Rows
- 643
- Columns
- 5
- State column
- None found
- Topics
- Nursing homes
- Contact
- BetterCare@cms.hhs.gov
API
Free, no key needed. This request returns the first 10 rows as JSON:
https://data.cms.gov/provider-data/api/1/datastore/query/tagd-9999/0?limit=10
CMS's description
This is a look-up table for nursing home inspection citations, providing a text description for each citation or tag code.
The summary at the top is the first sentence of this description. Record id pdc:tagd-9999. This record as JSON.