Would-be patients trying to pick a hospital can now check the opinions of other patients by using data from Medicare, the U.S. health-insurance program for the elderly and disabled. The information, posted Friday on Medicare’s Web Site, enables people to compare the views of patients at a local hospital with those of patients treated at other area hospitals or those across the U.S. Such transparency is supported by hospital groups, said Rich Rasmussen of the Florida Hospital Association, though he said consumers should not use the Medicare site — hospitalcompare.hhs.gov — as the only source of information on hospitals. He added that hospitals would like to see similar transparency for other health-care providers.
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