IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: CMS Care Compare Empowers Patients when Making Important Health Care Decisions

Connecting People With Data

Under the leadership of President Trump, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently launched Care Compare, a streamlined redesign of eight existing CMS healthcare compare tools available on Medicare.gov.  The Procedure Price Look Up (PPL) tool now includes physician fees in addition to facility fees, offering people with Medicare a more accurate prediction of the true out-of-pocket costs.  The Provider Data Catalog (PDC) better serves innovators and stakeholders who are interested in detailed CMS data and use interactive and downloadable datasets like those currently available on data.Medicare.gov. Full Press Release can be found here: https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/press-releases/cms-care-compare-empowers-patients-when-making-important-health-care-decisions All of the above data assets are also catalogued on Healthdata.gov:  http://www.healthdata.gov/dataset/search The Data Navigator development team welcomes your feedback. Write to us at DataNavigator@cms.hhs.gov.