How can I find information on how a hospital rates for specific procedures, e.g. heart surgery?
From this site, you can access Hospital Advisor, a WebMD Health Services tool that provides risk-adjusted comparisons of hospital performance on more than 160 common diagnoses and procedures. You can create ZIP code-specific reports to compare up to 10 hospitals on four evaluation measures: mortality, complications, patient volume and length of stay. You can also search for a specific hospital as well as see the Blue participating and non-participating hospital status on this tool. Hospitals are included in Hospital Advisor when more than 10 patients have been treated in a year for a specific diagnosis or procedure. You may not always see every hospital based on the diagnosis or procedure in your search criteria.
