"SeniorLiving Research attempted to contact 7,221 US senior facilities by telephone to obtain availability and service pricing. Facilities that accept Medicare and/or Medicaid were contacted across all 50 states (and District of Columbia) from a dataset of 15,266 facilities sourced from The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

11,574 phone calls were made over the course of 16 months from December 2020 - March 2022.

Of our 7,221 attempts, pricing was collected for 3,987 facilities. 3,203 remaining facilities yielded no information due to being forwarded to voicemail, admissions director being unavailable, or being redirected to contact social services for pricing. 31 of the facilities had closed or were not able to be contacted.

Unlike other online tools, our Assisted Living pricing includes Level of Care expenses when those amounts were disclosed. We used these calculations:

lowest room price + level 1 care = minimum assisted living price

highest room price + highest level of care price = maximum assisted living price

We then averaged the minimum and maximum assisted living price to determine the average assisted living price for that facility.

Some facilities require an entrance fee lump sum payment to move in, sometimes referred to as Continuing Care Retirement Communities or CCRCs. For those facilities we use their stated monthly rates assuming the retiree uses the lowest entrance fee that yields the highest monthly fee. When facilities offer an optional lump sum entrance fee to lower monthly payments, we use the No Entrance Fee pricing."