data.cms.gov: Readability — week 2026-W38
What these mean
- Words per page
- Main-content word count.
- Reading ease (Flesch)
- 0–100; higher is easier. ~60+ is plain language; below ~30 is very hard.
- Grade level (Flesch-Kincaid)
- US school grade needed to read it; aim for ~8 or lower for the public.
- Scored
- A reading grade is only meaningful on running prose, so we score a page only when it has enough of it. Pages that are mostly links or cards (too little text) or mostly tables and data (not prose) are left unscored — a grade there would be misleading, no matter how many words they contain.
Per-page readability
Unexplained acronyms
HTTPSA— 738 page(s)MD— 595 page(s)CENTER— 253 page(s)HEALTH— 186 page(s)CMS— 170 page(s)INC— 143 page(s)OF— 141 page(s)SOUTH— 137 page(s)API— 125 page(s)CSV— 117 page(s)TH— 112 page(s)EAST— 110 page(s)HOME— 105 page(s)STREET— 102 page(s)NAME— 100 page(s)
Possible misspellings
https— 740 page(s)govA— 738 page(s)TableOverviewData— 474 page(s)DictionaryAPI— 463 page(s)rowsFilter— 400 page(s)DatasetFilter— 400 page(s)DatasetAdd— 400 page(s)NameConditionValueColumn— 400 page(s)filterResetApply— 400 page(s)filtersManage— 400 page(s)ColumnsManage— 400 page(s)columnsActivate— 400 page(s)allDisplay— 400 page(s)rowsRows— 381 page(s)SearchManage— 381 page(s)ColumnsFilter— 381 page(s)ExportBasic— 381 page(s)FilteringAdvanced— 381 page(s)FilteringSelect— 381 page(s)columnSelect— 381 page(s)conditionSelect— 381 page(s)conditionAdd— 381 page(s)conditionRemove— 381 page(s)groupAdd— 381 page(s)conditionApply— 381 page(s)