Provider identity

CMS POS Long-Term Care Hospital Roster

medicare_silver.dim_ltch·live·dim

Rows

655

Columns

History

N/A

Card

nocolumns only

Typed tools

What it is

1CMS Provider of Services File, the LEGACY "Hospital_and_other" distribution, FILTERED to long-term care hospitals (prvdr_ctgry_sbtyp_cd = "02").
2LTCHs are hospital SUBTYPES, not in the iQIES file — the hospital-file sibling of the post-acute rosters.
3Roster spine — CCN, facility name, city/state/ZIP, composed 5-digit county FIPS, active flag, provider subtype/category, ownership/control code.

Grain

Key	Grain
N/A	1One row per Medicare-certified long-term care hospital (by CCN) per quarterly POS snapshot.

Columns (26)

Column	Type	Meaning
`ccn`	string
`fac_name`	string
`city`	string
`state_cd`	string
`zip_cd`	string
`county_fips`	string
`is_active`	boolean
`provider_subtype_cd`	string
`provider_category_cd`	string
`control_type_cd`	string
`termination_code`	string
`observed_period`	date
`asserted_at`	date
`effective_period_start`	date
`effective_period_end`	date
`cms_vintage_sequence`	int
`parse_revision`	int
`parser_artifact_hash`	string
`source_url`	string
`sha256_content_hash`	string
`source_id`	string
`is_current`	boolean
`bronze_object_key`	string
`s3_version_id`	string
`vintage_tag`	string
`drug_source_version_id`	string

Query it

describe_data_source(source_fqn="medicare_silver.dim_ltch")     # the card, live
query_substrate(sql="SELECT * FROM medicare_silver.dim_ltch WHERE <filter> LIMIT 100")

Item	Value
Typed tools that read it	none; raw SQL
Identity key	`ccn`
Join	`how_to_join(source_fqn="medicare_silver.dim_ltch")`
Raw door	Athena (read-only via query_substrate): medicare_silver.dim_ltch
Note	Iceberg table medicare_silver.dim_ltch, partitioned by state_cd; one atomic per-state replace per quarterly ingest (idempotent by SHA-256). Shares the hospital-POS download with dim_irf.

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