Kicking off during National Hospital Week May 11-17, the Nebraska Hospital Association (NHA) will launch a new web site, Care Compare, to allow users to access charge information for several types of inpatient hospitalizations at any Nebraska hospital. Consumers can select a hospital by county or city, then select the reason for hospitalization and can compare charges by severity level with those of other hospitals in the region; to other hospitals with similar patient volume; and to other hospitals across the state as a whole. In addition to charges, the number of discharges, average length of stay, and the average age of patients are displayed.
The web site also offers links to several preferred sites that measure hospitals on quality of care, including the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Hospital Compare and The Joint Commission.
