PRICE TRANSPARENCY REVIEW 2026-09-14
PRICE TRANSPARENCY REVIEW · Community Medical Centers

Community Medical Centers

Three of your four hospitals picked up a new CMS warning notice within a two-week window in June.

Measured from Community Medical Centers' own published price transparency files under 45 CFR Part 180.50, retrieved Sep 14, 2026, and cross-checked against CMS's public Hospital Enrollments, Provider of Services, and Price Transparency Enforcement datasets.

Facilities4
Files retrieved2026-09-14T22:40:00Z UTC
Measured againsteCFR current to 2026-09-01
Prepared bySuperscript
3 of 4
facilities with an open CMS warning notice, opened within a two-week window in June 2026
3
separate files published under the identical filename string (different content, different sizes)
4 months
from Clovis Community Medical Center's last “Met Requirements” to its new warning notice
01The portfolio§180.20, §180.30
FacilityLegal entityLocationCCNType BedsOwnershipMedicare since
Clovis Community Medical CenterFresno Community Hospital and Medical CenterClovis, CA050492Acute352Voluntary nonprofit — CMS control-type code 02
Community Regional Medical CenterFresno Community Hospital and Medical CenterFresno, CA050060Acute794Voluntary nonprofit — CMS control-type code 02
Fresno Heart and Surgical HospitalFresno, CAAcute
Community Behavioral Health CenterFresno, CA (per cms-hpt.txt)Behavioral

Clovis Community Medical Center and Community Regional Medical Center share one CMS-registered legal entity, “Fresno Community Hospital and Medical Center,” which is why both files carry that name rather than each hospital's own operating name — the naming is at least traceable to a real, correct legal entity, not an arbitrary mismatch.

02What’s published today§180.50(d), schema v3.0
FacilityHost domaincms-hpt.txtFilenameSchema Last updatedHTTP last-modType 2 NPIAttester PayersRowsRows w/ rate
Clovis Community Medical Centercommunitymedical.orgYES941156276-1316027709_fresno-community-hospital-and-medical-centerWed, 29 Jul 2026 16:07 GMT?
Community Behavioral Health Centercommunitymedical.orgYES941156276-1104906569_fresno-community-hospital-and-medical-centerWed, 29 Jul 2026 16:46 GMT?
Community Regional Medical Centercommunitymedical.orgYES941156276-1104906569_fresno-community-hospital-and-medical-center (identical filename to Behavioral Health and Fresno Heart, different file)Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:37 GMT?
Fresno Heart and Surgical Hospitalcommunitymedical.orgYES941156276-1104906569_fresno-community-hospital-and-medical-center (identical filename to Behavioral Health and Regional, different file)Wed, 29 Jul 2026 18:02 GMT?

SHARE OF EACH FILE CARRYING A PAYER-SPECIFIC RATE

03The charge file§180.50
WATCH (1)

Three different files are published under the exact same filename

Community Behavioral Health Center, Community Regional Medical Center, and Fresno Heart and Surgical Hospital each publish a file named 941156276-1104906569_fresno-community-hospital-and-medical-center_standardcharges.csv — the identical filename string across all three. They are not the same file: confirmed by content length, which differs across all three (2,261,744,135 / 2,266,755,182 / 2,261,743,985 bytes), so the numbers should be correct in each. But anyone downloading more than one (a researcher, a comparison tool, or a script like the one that pulled this data) will have them silently overwrite each other locally unless the folder path is preserved. Clovis Community Medical Center's own file at least carries a distinct numeric ID.

CLEAR (1)

The shared naming traces to a real, correct legal entity

“Fresno Community Hospital and Medical Center” is not an arbitrary or wrong name: CMS's own Hospital Enrollments file confirms it as the legal entity behind both Clovis Community Medical Center (CCN 050492) and Community Regional Medical Center (CCN 050060). Naming files after the licensing entity rather than each hospital's public-facing name is unusual, but it is at least traceable and correct, not a data error.

04Enforcement record§180.70, .80, .90
2026-02-09
Clovis Community Medical Center — Met Requirements (case 6977)
2026-06-15
Clovis Community Medical Center — Warning Notice issued — open, no closure recorded as of the CMS dataset's July 2026 refresh (case 8056)
2023-08-08
Community Regional Medical Center — Warning Notice issued (case 1429)
2023-11-14
Community Regional Medical Center — Closure Notice (case closed) (case 1429)
2025-02-18
Community Regional Medical Center — Warning Notice issued (case 3111)
2025-05-22
Community Regional Medical Center — CAP Request issued (case 3111)
2025-06-04
Community Regional Medical Center — Closure Notice (case closed) (case 3111)
2026-06-01
Community Regional Medical Center — Warning Notice issued — open, no closure recorded as of the CMS dataset's July 2026 refresh (case 7901)
2026-06-04
Fresno Heart and Surgical Hospital — Warning Notice issued — open, no closure recorded as of the CMS dataset's July 2026 refresh (case 7936)
05Open questions
01

Why did Clovis, Community Regional, and Fresno Heart all pick up a new warning notice within a two-week window in June 2026?

A near-simultaneous, portfolio-wide action usually points to one shared cause (a reporting or schema change CMS flagged system-wide) rather than three unrelated, independent misses — worth confirming before treating them as separate problems with separate fixes.

02

What changed at Clovis between February 2026 (Met Requirements) and June 2026 (new Warning Notice)?

Going from compliant to flagged in four months suggests something specific changed — a file update, a schema shift, a new CMS check — rather than a a longstanding issue finally being caught.

03

Do Fresno Heart and Surgical Hospital and Community Behavioral Health Center have their own CCNs distinct from the two Fresno Community entities?

Not confirmed in this review. Changes whether all four facilities are one commercial conversation or two.

Reproducibility
06Method & sources

FLAGGED, NOT ASSERTED — COULD NOT BE VERIFIED FROM OUTSIDE THE ORGANIZATION