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Saw this couple of weeks ago http://pricemaps.betterdoctor.com/ http://pricemaps.betterdoctor.com/
by enra 13y ago
Saw this couple of weeks ago http://pricemaps.betterdoctor.com/ http://pricemaps.betterdoctor.com/
- neilsharma 13y agoThanks for the link--haven't seen this. I think they use a different data set for the procedure prices, but I like how they also compare it to a quality ranking. I will look more into how US News quantified hospital scores. What I think matters most for healthcare is not just price, but quality/cost. Quality is difficult to measure, but should factor in recovery speed, number of repeat-procedures, service, etc.
- hotloo 13y agoThanks! I think, when are showing some numbers, it looks much more perceivable when you have something to compare to, in our case, the top hospitals ranking from the US News. Some more work will mostly likely be done soon to enrich the data we are showing.
- carbocation 13y agoInteresting. The prices listed by this tool are very different from the prices listed in the tool in this Show HN post. I wonder how their data differ?
- hotloo 13y agoHi! I went back and checked the data. If you search for chest pain, and look at Cedar-Sinai Medical Center around Santa Monica, we are showing this piece of information. 313 - CHEST PAIN,50625,CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER,8700 BEVERLY BLVD,LOS ANGELES,CA,90048,CA - Los Angeles,229,43714.62445,5094.71179 In the PriceMaps we made, we are showing the last value, which is the 'Average Total Payments' for the operation. Not exactly sure if the site mentioned in the HN is using the same data.