Data on patient outcomes for individual healthcare providers is not currently available, but the data at the hospital level is. If a hospital is a Medicare-cert

Data on patient outcomes for individual healthcare providers is not currently available, but the data at the hospital level is. If a hospital is a Medicare-certified, then it is required to report quality of care metrics including deaths, complications and readmissions. When researching and comparing doctors, as rschmitty mentions, gather all the relevant publicly-available data such as your state's malpractice claims database, research publications, and quality of associated institutions. Check out Medicare's Hospital Compare tool to see the quality of care metrics for your local hospitals: http://www.medicare.gov/hospitalcompare/search.html http://www.medicare.gov/hospitalcompare/search.html Here is the quality of care dataset that includes over 4,800 US hospitals: https://data.medicare.gov/Hospital-Compare/Agency-For-Healthcare-Research-And-Quality-Measure/vs3q-rxc5 https://data.medicare.gov/Hospital-Compare/Agency-For-Health...