Hospital Cost, Review Data Go Public - Healthcare IT News - June 5, 2014
One organization has made a bold move toward healthcare transparency after announcing it was publishing patient satisfaction ratings together with outpatient procedure pricing for all of one state's hospitals.
Virginia Health Information, which charges itself with making health data available for effective consumer decision making, released statewide patient satisfaction ratings -- based on CMS data released this year -- last month, and just this June followed it up with outpatient procedural pricing data, also from CMS.