What is CMS Physician Compare?
Physician Compare is a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) website that allows the public to find and select physicians who are currently enrolled in the Medicare program as well as other information on Eligible Professionals (EPs) who participate in CMS quality programs.
What is the best doctor review site?
Top Physician Review Sites to Watch Vitals. Google My Business. Healthgrades. ZocDoc.
How can I find out if my surgeon is good?
An excellent starting point to finding out if your doctor is any good is to ask for their PROMS reports, and in the case of surgery, for their most recent individual ‘Joint Registry’ outcome reports.
What is the purpose of the Physician Compare tool that is a part of the CMS website?
Developed as part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 to increase transparency by publicly reporting data on providers, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) designed the Physician Compare website to help patients obtain data about Medicare-participating physicians.
What is the purpose of the Physician Compare tool on the CMS website?
Physician Compare is a website where you can learn more about physicians and other health care professionals who treat people enrolled in Medicare. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) created Physician Compare to help consumers make informed choices about the health care they receive through Medicare.
How can you tell how many surgeries a doctor has done?
What is my surgeon’s track record? You can look up a surgeon’s scorecard of how many of the same procedures they have done and their complication rate here: projects.propublica.org/surgeons.
What is surgeon scorecard?
The Surgeon Scorecard is a searchable database billed as “death and complication rates” of 17,000 U.S. surgeons for several procedures. More accurately, though, it’s the rate of deaths and hospital readmissions known to be associated with complications.
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