Choosing a hospital often comes down to location or recommendations from friends but when you’re looking for a hospital, some important things to consider are price and quality of care. Prices for the same procedure can vary up to 500% between hospitals, so you can save a lot of money by checking the prices your hospital charges.
Through GD, you have access to Healthcare Bluebook, a price transparency tool that lets you search hospitals in your area to find out which ones have the highest quality care at the best price. If you’re not informed about hospital cost variance in your area, you might pay a bill that seems reasonable without knowing that you could have paid five times less at a hospital down the street. Healthcare Bluebook can help you understand those cost differences, and find a fair price for your procedure.
Your benefits
Through GD, you have special access to Healthcare Bluebook’s hospital quality ratings. Healthcare Bluebook evaluates procedures at different hospitals across the United States and compares them based on hospital patient safety, complications, core processes, and mortality rates. Using that information, they can determine which hospitals are more likely to generate a positive health outcome for you and your family.
Even a hospital with a high overall ranking might not excel in the specific procedure that you need. Healthcare Bluebook rates hospital procedures by price and quality using a simple red, yellow, green system. Red means they’re in the bottom third, yellow means the middle third, and green means the top third. Using this tool, you can find the highest quality healthcare for what you need at a fair price.
This tool doesn’t cost you anything, and it can save you a lot of money. A high price doesn’t mean a higher quality of healthcare, so you don’t need to pay more for things like delivering a baby, Pap Smears, and HIV screening. Because of the huge price differences among nearby facilities for the same services, doing your own research can save you hundreds or thousands of dollars. Healthcare Bluebook exists to help patients make smarter and more informed decisions about important medical procedures.
