Try out our hospital comparison feature
September 06, 2014
One bright spot in the area of health care transparency in the US is that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has published a variety of quality metrics for hospitals via their Hospital Compare and in database files. From fairly early on in DocSpot's history, we have re-published data from HHS, trying to make it easier for consumers to interpret. Last year, we even worked hard to integrate procedure pricing information from HHS. This summer, we updated our user interface to find out more about hospitals, and we even included a new feature to help people compare hospitals to other hospitals that are near it.
To try this out, search for "hospitals" and click on the compare button. If you are interested in finding out procedure pricing information, you can first visit a hospital's profile page, click on the pricing tab, and click on a specific procedure name to find out more. There's a button to compare nearby hospitals. If you have any feedback, please let us know.