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Hospital equipment purchase signals

The hospitals whose equipment purchases at least doubled to $1 million or more in a fiscal year, with the full purchase breakdown.

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What it is

A derived slice of Provider Change Events: every capex_jump event — a hospital whose cost report shows major movable equipment purchases of at least $1M and at least 2× the prior fiscal year — joined back to CMS HCRIS Worksheet A-7 Part I for the complete purchase breakdown by asset class in the trigger year, plus the prior-year comparison and the year-over-year multiple. One row per (hospital, trigger fiscal year).

Worksheet A-7 Part I is the hospital's own reconciliation of capital asset balances, filed with CMS: annual purchases in dollars split across land, land improvements, buildings & fixtures, building improvements, fixed equipment, major movable equipment, and HIT-designated assets. The framing is observational: the hospital *reported* a step-up in equipment purchases on its cost report — who they bought from, and why, is not in the data.

What a desk does with it

A screen for facilities in a buying cycle. The filtered slice of the A-7 panel.

Read before a trial
  • Two bases per row: 3,638 against a positive prior year, 639 first purchases after a year with no movable line. Filter prior_year_basis for strict 2x.
At a glance
Rows
4,277 across 3,138 hospitals (2026-09-08 export). Trigger fiscal years 2019–2025: 7 · 422 · 920 · 833 · 831 · 782 · 482. FY2019 is thin because the loaded A-7 history starts there and a jump needs a prior year.
Product cadence
Quarterly, on the HCRIS release cycle
Lag
Several quarters after fiscal year end
Lookback shipped
Trigger fiscal years 2019 to 2025
Backfill available
Follows the A-7 panel backfill
Vintage
2026-07-22 (A-7 ingest run).
Tables
1
Licence
$500 per month per firm, or inside the suite
Sources

Where every row comes from.

SourceSource cadenceHistory
CMS HCRIS Worksheet A-7 Part IQuarterlyFY2019 onward

Dictionary source line: CMS HCRIS HOSP10 (form 2552-10) Worksheet A-7 Part I, numeric files from downloads.cms.gov; hospital identity from the filed cost report header.

Tables

1 table, three meta columns each.

Every table carries _dataset, _vintage and _exported_at in addition to the columns in the dictionary.

TableSnowflake pathColumnsRows
hospital_capex_signalsHEALTHPARSE_DATA.HOSPITAL_CAPEX_SIGNALS.HOSPITAL_CAPEX_SIGNALS204,277 across 3,138 hospitals
Sample rows

Hospital Capex Signals

Three real rows pulled from the production tables on 2026-09-10. The query is recorded next to the rows in the site source.

HospitalFYMovable equipmentvs prior
ST. MARYS MEDICAL CENTER (WV)2025$77.6M4.3× ($18.0M)
BAPTIST HEALTH SYSTEM (TX)2025$76.1M2.3× ($33.0M)
SOUTH GEORGIA MEDICAL CENTER (GA)2025$73.9M4.1× ($18.2M)
4,277 rows · quarterly · since FY2019 · GET /v1/hospitals/capex-signals at $0.10 per call

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