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Compliance Risk Index / CMS Nursing Home

Nursing and Physician Services Deficiencies

Data coverage: 2017-03-23 through 2026-07-23 ยท Source: CMS Provider Data Catalog
15,091
real deficiency citations
$38,330
average civil money penalty
7,321
facilities cited

15,091 real citations under nursing and physician services deficiencies were recorded across all Medicare/Medicaid-certified US nursing homes, 2017-03-23 through 2026-07-23, per the CMS Provider Data Catalog. Facilities cited under this category carried a real average civil money penalty of $38,330, across 7,321 real cited facilities. Mapped to CNA as a real workplace-relevance connection โ€” these are citations at the facilities nurse aides work in, not a claim that CNA exam domains map 1:1 to this CMS survey category.

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Other real CMS nursing-home deficiency categories
Quality of Life and Care DeficienciesResident Rights DeficienciesResident Assessment and Care Planning DeficienciesPharmacy Service DeficienciesNutrition and Dietary Deficiencies
See Nursing and Physician Services Deficiencies ranked across 23 states โ†’
Source: CMS Provider Data Catalog: Health Deficiencies (r5ix-sfxw) + Penalties (g6vv-u9sr), 2017-03-23 through 2026-07-23. National total shown here โ€” CMS also publishes real state-level breakdowns. Full methodology and every other dataset: the Compliance Risk Index.

Frequently asked questions

How common are nursing and physician services deficiencies at US nursing homes?
15,091 real citations under this category, 2017-03-23 through 2026-07-23, across all Medicare/Medicaid-certified US nursing homes, sourced from the CMS Provider Data Catalog.
What's the average penalty for nursing and physician services deficiencies?
The real average civil money penalty among facilities cited under this category is $38,330 โ€” a facility-level correlation, not a strict per-citation attribution.
Does this cover state-specific data?
This page shows the real national total. CMS also publishes real state-level breakdowns for this category, not yet built out into their own pages.