Data sources & refresh tracker

Sources

Dates marked est. are computed from each dataset's typical cadence — the publisher posts no specific next-refresh date for those (HCRIS, PBJ, PECOS, MDS Frequency, Chain Performance, Texas HHSC, HUD-FHA, FEMA NFHL). For all others, the date is the one CMS has on its calendar. FEMA revises flood maps on a rolling basis with no release schedule at all — its cadence and next-expected date describe our own quarterly re-check, not a FEMA publication. HCRIS and HUD-FHA publish no catalog at all; their "last published" is read from the Last-Modified header on the file itself, which for HUD trails the data's as-of month-end by about a week. Texas HHSC is the one row whose status is not a refresh-date comparison. HHSC publishes no catalog and no file index we can read, so its "last published" can only be the Last-Modified stamp on workbooks we already hold — a date that cannot, by construction, tell us a file we have never downloaded exists. Its status instead answers whether we hold the scorecard quarter HHSC should have out by now: QIPP quarters close Nov/Feb/May/Aug and the scorecard has historically appeared two to three-and-a-half months later, so we allow four months from quarter close before calling ourselves behind. The "next expected" date for that row is that four-month deadline for the following quarter.

State Medicaid reimbursement rates

Beyond CMS, SNF Shark ingests per-facility Medicaid reimbursement rates published by individual state Medicaid agencies. Coverage is rolling out state by state — each facility's rate appears on its Reimbursement tab. A weekly sweep checks every state's source for newly published rate files; "Rates effective" is the vintage of the newest file we hold.

Demographic & market-area reference data

The portfolio Demographics tab's Primary Market Area (PMA) figures — the ACS demand matrix and CON-state status — draw on public reference data outside the CMS pipeline. These are public-domain or curated sources, refreshed on-demand when a new vintage is published rather than on the monthly CMS cadence. Full methodology on the Primary Market Area page.

The Demographics tab's Market Supply card (bed supply, market occupancy) is computed from CMS bed & census data (the Provider Information row above); only the demographic and CON figures use the reference sources listed here. Forward population projections and household net-worth estimates are intentionally not published — they aren't available from a free public source at this grain.

Illinois reimbursement incentives

On top of the base Medicaid per diem, Illinois' 2022 rate reform (PA 102-1035) pays several per-facility supplemental flows and levies a provider assessment. SNF Shark ingests the per-facility figures Illinois HFS publishes and shows them, netted, on each Illinois facility's Reimbursement tab. Provider-assessment dollars are estimated (published tax rate × occupied bed days); all other figures are as published by HFS.

Source: hfs.illinois.gov · Long Term Care ↗. History runs quarterly from January 2023.

State assisted-living licensure & surveys

Assisted-living and memory-care facilities have no CMS analog — no federal certification, no national ID, and no federal survey system. SNF Shark's senior-housing records are built from the public licensure rosters of 49 state licensing agencies (each facility page names its agency and the state's own as-of date), and, where a state publishes it, that state's inspection and enforcement record. Rule citations and severity classes are quoted verbatim per state — they are not comparable across states, and SNF Shark computes no cross-state score from them.