Healthcare Quality and Pricing Navigator Index

Healthcare Quality a Critical Part of Your Healthcare Research

Quality in healthcare means providing the care the Consumer needs, when the Consumer needs it, in an affordable, safe, effective manner. Quality healthcare also means engaging and involving the Consumer, so the Consumer takes ownership in preventive care and in the treatment of diagnosed conditions.

Healthcare Prices have taken front stage in our national healthcare discussions.  Quality is rarely mentioned.

Most Healthcare consumers have no idea how to research the quality of their healthcare providers. The Healthcare Quality Navigator will provide the consumer with information and help the consumer navigate the quality maze.

Below, we have aggregated information for the consumer to find healthcare quality ratings by healthcare provider.

Healthcare Pricing is impossible to understand. 

Trying to Find a Healthcare Price is even worse.

Our easy to follow, step by step process will guide the consumer to gather the information needed and than to secure a price from the healthcare provider for the healthcare service.  This will help the healthcare consumer to make informed healthcare decisions.

Our goal is to provide the healthcare consumer with all-inclusive information to help navigate the pricing maze.

INDEX

  1. Section 1: Navigate the Healthcare Pricing Maze

    2. Navigating the Healthcare Pricing Maze is frustrating for the consumer. This section will help you through that journey.

  2. How To Navigate the Healthcare Pricing Maze

    3. A guide to help healthcare consumers to identify web sites, research healthcare prices and navigate through the process.

  3. Medicare: Outpatient Procedure Price Lookup Tool

    4. A Tool to provide consumers with planning healthcare spending

  4. Section 2: How to Navigate the Hospital Price Transparency Act

    5. The NEW Pricing Transparency Act will help consumers find medical prices. The following will guide you through the process.

  5. The Hospital Price Transparency Act

    6. Beginning January 1, 2021, this Act mandates Healthcare providers to post thier charges for the healthcare to review and use.

  6. A Consumer Guild of the 70 Shoppable Services Mandated By CMS: In Layman's Language, What Are They

    7. This guide explains each Shoppable Service in Layman's Language

  7. CMS Hospital Mandated: Their 70 Shoppable Services: A Listing of the Services With the Appropriate CPT or DRG Codes Consumers Need To Know

    8. This Listing will help the consumer navigate the pricing maze on Hospital Websites with service identification and procedure codes.

  8. Surprise Billing Quizzify's Passes

    9. The documents provided in this section will help the consumer be protected from healthcare providers.

  9. Hospitals Hide Pricing Data From Search Results

    10. Webpages for hundreds of hospitals require users to click through to find prices, undermining federal transparency rule, Journal analysis

  10. Hospital Prices Must Now Be Transparent. For Many Consumers, They’re Still Anyone’s Guess.

    11. Consumers have made little progress with thier healthcare providers to provide prices. The Feds are not enforcing the laws.

  11. Section 3: Navigate the Healthcare Quality Maze

    12. This section will assist the consumer to find healthcare provider quality ratings.

  12. How To Determine Healthcare Provider Quality

    13. To educate and guide the healthcare consumer in determining the quality ratings of healthcare providers

  13. Health Care Quality Rankings Measuring the quality of states' Medicare, hospitals and nursing homes

    14. This US News Report is excellent. Consumers need to take advantage.

  14. How to Search for Hospitals Quality Ratings: A Step-by-Step Process

    15. Your Hospital may not be included in the ratings above. If so, the easy step by step process included will help you find the information you are looking for.

  15. Outstanding Patient Experience Award™ 2022 Recipients

    16. Healthcare Consumers.....utilize this report to pick the best hospital in your area. The Healthgrades Outstanding Patient Experience Award™ recognizes hospitals for their outstanding performance in delivering a positive experience for patients during their hospital stay.

  16. Patient Safety Excellence Award™ 2022 Recipients

    17. If you need to be admitted into a hospital, the last thing you would expect is to become unnecessarily sicker. Patient safety measures how well a hospital prevents injuries, infections, and other serious conditions based on 14 serious, potentially preventable adverse events.

  17. Hospital Deaths By State....Best to Worst; 2021

    18. Hospital Deaths are an indicator of the quality of a facilities. The following helps the consumer determine which states are the best and worst regarding hospital deaths.

  18. How Healthy is Your Community? 2022

    19. Is your community "HEALTHY"? Find out by using the website provided.

  19. Best & Worst States for Doctors as Reported by US News; 2022

    20. Tracking physician quality is as important as tracking healthcare providers. This report will give consumers a basic understanding of physician quality.

  20. Best & Worst States for Nurses;2022

    21. Nursing Quality is an overlooked healthcare quality indicator. Healthcare consumers should review the report to understand more about Nursing Quality.

  21. How To Find the Quality Rating of Nursing Homes

    22. Nursing Home Quality is very important for healthcare consumers to know and understand. Medicare has developed Nursing Home Compare. This tools rates Nursing Homes from 1 to 5 stars; 5 stars is this highest. Take advantage of this tool.

  22. Biden Unveils Nursing Home Quality Improvement Plan

    23. President Joe Biden announced reforms Feb. 28 to boost nursing home staffing and oversight, citing COVID-19 death data showing 200,000 nursing home residents and staff deaths from the virus.

  23. How To Find the Quality Rating of Home Health Care and Dialysis Centers

    24. Quality Ratings are very important when determining which company or service you want to select. These web sites will assist the Healthcare Consumer.

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