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Everything a journalist or researcher needs to cite Fonteum Research: a press kit, downloadable datasets, a factsheet, and a copy-paste citation guide. Free to cite with attribution.
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Fonteum is a US healthcare provenance registry that publishes signed, chain-of-custody-attested research and data pages on Medicare, Medicaid, and federal regulator datasets, drawing from 22 federal source families across CMS, OIG, HRSA, AHRQ, and HHS.
Every cited fact carries a source · last-checked date · limitations. The graph is built once, in public, and refreshed from public records on a known cadence. We draw from 22 federal source families, including CMS NPPES, CMS PECOS, CMS Care Compare, OIG LEIE, HRSA HPSA, BLS OEWS, BEA Regional, and CMS Open Payments.
Read more: /about · /methodology · /sources · /research
Full doctrine at /editorial-policy.
Fonteum was founded in 2026 to build the source-of-truth research layer for U.S. healthcare provider data.
Press contact: press@fonteum.com
Dr. Jennifer Montecillo, MD
Co-founder · Non-practicing medical reviewer · Gullas College of Medicine, 2019
Dr. Jennifer Montecillo, MD — Gullas College of Medicine, 2019 — is co-founder of Fonteum and also a tattoo artist. She serves as the non-practicing medical reviewer across Fonteum's published studies, providing clinical context without practising medicine.
Reviewed by Jennifer Montecillo, MD, medical reviewer. Non-practicing medical reviewer.
Download headshot placeholder →Three editorial desks group every published study by the kind of question it answers — not by the underlying source dataset. Each desk page lists the studies, the source families, and the doctrine guardrails for that beat.
Four federal datasets, each with source attribution, snapshot date, and row count. Single-table CSV + JSON — opens cleanly in Excel or Sheets. Free to cite with attribution.
Full catalog at /data.
Nursing Home Quality by State 2026
15,000+ rowsSource: CMS Care Compare — Nursing Home Provider Information (4pq5-n9py) · Snapshot: April 2026 · Limitations
Home Health Agency Quality by State 2026
12,000+ rowsSource: CMS Care Compare — Home Health Care Agencies (6jpm-sxkc) · Snapshot: April 2026 · Limitations
Every published study is free to cite. Please include attribution and a link back to the study URL. The limitations panel on each study page is the source of truth for what the data does and does not cover — please reference it when summarizing findings.
Copy-paste citation template
Fonteum Research, "{Study Title}," {Month YYYY}.
https://fonteum.com/research/{study-slug}
Dataset: https://fonteum.com/research/data/{study-slug}.csvDrop the “Dataset:” line if the study has no downloadable CSV; the linked study page still renders the full limitations panel and methodology.
AP-style short citation (inline)
(Fonteum Research, {Month YYYY})Suggested attribution
A story angle drawn from Fonteum's provenance methodology. Links to the source surface that backs the angle, with the source family already attributed. Additional dataset-specific angles will be added as study pages ship.
Pitch desk: press@fonteum.com
Source: Fonteum sources registry + provenance graph
Lede
Most provider directories you've encountered as a consumer are either (a) backfilled from Google Business Profile with no source citation or (b) a paid lead-gen list dressed up as a directory. A small but growing category — academic-grade provider graphs — does the opposite: every field on a profile is anchored to a federal or state public-record source, and the source citation is rendered visibly to the reader.
Data point
Fonteum's provenance graph stamps four pieces of metadata on every published field: the originating source (e.g. CMS NPPES, CMS Care Compare), the last-checked ISO date, a Fonteum confidence tier, and the public/restricted display permission. Those four show up on every profile via the ProvenanceCard component, with the same contract documented at /data-provenance and /data/schema.
So what
The methodology story is the better business story than the directory itself. Local-services data has been a wild west for two decades; the question of who is allowed to sell what about whom — and how — is moving back into regulatory focus (FTC click-to-cancel, CMS provider-directory accuracy, state UPL enforcement). A reporter can use Fonteum as a worked example of the alternative pattern.
If you are evaluating Fonteum for research, enrichment, or B2B use cases, the data-platform page is the right starting point — it lists every available dataset, the source family it's anchored on, and four sample B2B export concepts.
Data platform → /data
Live dataset catalog (CSV + JSON where available), four sample B2B export concepts, and a doctrine block describing what we explicitly do not provide.
License or scoping inquiries: press@fonteum.com · /contact
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Free to cite with attribution. Every number here is reproducible from our published datasets. Counts are derived live from the research registry and snapshot — never hardcoded on this page.
No external coverage yet. Research assets are available for citation.
The press kit, citation templates, and downloadable datasets above are everything a desk needs to run a story today — without a press mention. When external coverage publishes, it will be listed here as an itemized link list, not a stock logo strip.
Covered Fonteum research? press@fonteum.com · /contact
Advance access
Fonteum may grant journalists advance access to unpublished data or findings under embargo. Embargo terms are agreed in writing (email) before any material is shared.
Embargo period
Standard embargo periods run 24–72 hours before public release. Longer embargoes require founder sign-off and are granted case-by-case for major investigations.
Embargo breach
Publishing embargoed material before the agreed lift time revokes the outlet's eligibility for future advance access. Fonteum does not pursue legal remedies for standard embargo breaches, but we do not grant future advances to outlets that have breached.
Accuracy corrections
If a published piece misrepresents Fonteum data, we will publish a correction on this page and notify the outlet. We expect the outlet to update its article or append a correction.
Attribution
Stories using Fonteum data must credit "Fonteum Research" and link to the study page. Stories quoting the Fonteum team must not paraphrase in ways that alter the meaning of the statement.
Embargo requests: press@fonteum.com
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Dialysis Facility Quality by State 2026
7,500+ rowsSource: CMS Care Compare — Dialysis Facility Listing (23ew-n7w9) · Snapshot: March 2026 · Limitations
Hospice Provider Availability by State 2026
6,900+ rowsSource: CMS Care Compare — Hospice General Information (yc9t-dgbk) · Snapshot: February 2026 · Limitations
Tension
The doctrine has tradeoffs. Source-cited is not the same as pre-vetted, and a buyer who wants a quality stamp will not find one. Several state-board datasets are restricted from redistribution and will never appear in this graph. Whether 'public record cited, never overclaimed' is a defensible long-term posture — or an unstable middle ground — is a real disagreement inside the industry.
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