Memorial Hospital part of new hospital comparison website

Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center, the Indiana Hospital Association, and hospitals across the state are now part of a website that allows patients to compare hospital charges and quality ratings.

“We fully support the gathering and reporting of quality and charge data. This information is critical to improving patient care.  We believe making the information available and useful to the public leads to more informed patients and more confidence in the health care system” said E. Kyle Bennett, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Memorial Hospital.

Indiana hospitals developed careINsight to give consumers easy access to hospital quality ratings and average charges for the 100 most common Indiana inpatient medical services. By using careINsight, consumers across Indiana may be able to better understand what goes into hospital billing and understand what questions to ask before seeking treatment.

The quality of the care patients receive is just as important as the price. Quality is based on several important factors: infection, mortality and readmission rates and the overall patient experience score. It is important to see other patients’ outcomes when consumers evaluate their treatment options.

careINsight is a useful tool that features a search engine to look up charges by location, hospital and/or procedure.  It also allows patients to search results that show available hospital quality data and charge data; hospital-to-hospital comparison by quality; and tips, education and links to each hospital website.

Unlike hospital charge data made public by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the careINsight tool uses charge data from the Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) to include procedures and services that are more inclusive of Indiana’s overall population.

To visit the careINsight website, visit www.mycareINsight.org.