Medicare Posts Pricing Information

Medicare has publicly posted pricing and quality information for 30 of the most commonly performed hospital procedures. The data shows what Medicare pays for procedures in each county, not at any particular hospital within the county. However, it does have hospital-specific information on how many procedures of each type were performed at a particular hospital. This should give consumers a better idea of how experienced a hospital might be with treating patients with their specific ailment.

The pricing data can be found at www.cms.hhs.gov/HealthCareConInit/.