openpaymentsdata.cms.gov: Readability — week 2026-W40

What these mean

Words per page

Main-content word count. Median 4396

Reading ease (Flesch)

0–100; higher is easier. ~60+ is plain language; below ~30 is very hard. Median 14.2

Grade level (Flesch-Kincaid)

US school grade needed to read it; aim for ~8 or lower for the public. Median 18

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. 7 of 119 scored

Heuristics for triage and trends, not authoritative linguistics. They flag pages worth a human plain-language review.

Per-page readability

Unexplained acronyms

Acronyms used without an on-page expansion (e.g. "Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)"), by pages affected. Download: CSV · JSON.

• GPO — 66 page(s)
• US — 47 page(s)
• NDC — 45 page(s)
• PDI — 45 page(s)
• STE — 43 page(s)
• AVE — 36 page(s)
• CFR — 33 page(s)
• CSV — 33 page(s)
• IT — 32 page(s)
• MS — 32 page(s)
• ST — 32 page(s)
• NOTE — 30 page(s)
• LLC — 25 page(s)
• NW — 25 page(s)
• DR — 25 page(s)

Possible misspellings

Main-content words not found in the dictionary or the project allowlist, by pages affected. Government and medical jargon may be false positives — add real terms to config/spelling-allowlist.txt. Download: CSV · JSON.

• TableOverviewData — 79 page(s)
• DictionaryAPI — 79 page(s)
• rowsFilter — 71 page(s)
• DatasetFilter — 71 page(s)
• DatasetAdd — 71 page(s)
• NameConditionValueColumn — 71 page(s)
• TypeConditionIsValue — 71 page(s)
• filterResetApply — 71 page(s)
• filtersManage — 71 page(s)
• ColumnsManage — 71 page(s)
• columnsActivate — 71 page(s)
• allDisplay — 71 page(s)
• DataUpdated — 65 page(s)
• NameChange — 65 page(s)
• columnReorderchange — 65 page(s)
• suffixrecipient — 65 page(s)
• cityrecipient — 65 page(s)
• typecovered — 51 page(s)
• namecovered — 51 page(s)
• npicovered — 51 page(s)
• ccnteaching — 45 page(s)
• idteaching — 45 page(s)
• idcovered — 45 page(s)
• Editpad — 32 page(s)
• GeneralRecipient — 32 page(s)