Oct 20 2010
Kaiser Health News staff writer Aimee Miles reports: "The whole idea behind HHS' Hospital Compare is simple: patients can shop around by putting in their zip codes and the website churns out a list of nearby hospitals, with detail on available services, care outcomes, patient satisfaction ratings and more. The aim: to help consumers - and companies that pay for their care - make informed decisions about where to seek medical care; and to pressure hospitals to improve the quality of their services. But a report that appeared today in the Archives of Surgery says the website isn't helping Medicare beneficiaries in need of certain high-risk surgery find better facilities" (Miles, 10/18).
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