Compare Price and Quality of Services

This information may be used to understand trends in how much consumers are spending for health care.

Average Employee's Share of Premium For Health Insurance Plans. This information may be used to understand how consumer spending may affect health outcomes.

The report includes information about number of hospital beds, admissions, surgeries and births. Information about specific hospitals can be found on page 83.

Leapfrog provides information about hospital procedures and practices that are associated with patient safety.

Tip: To search for hospitals in Kansas: 1. Select "Please show me all the information for my area", 2. Select "Search by state" 3. Select "Kansas" 4. Select "Compare now"

Report provides state and national hospital statistics. There is a separate area for researchers but people unfamiliar with using databases and statistics may find this site challenging.

Consumers can make more informed decisions about their health care by comparing price and quality. But what does that mean? Health care quality has its own special vocabulary. Learn what terms like "Health Care Quality" and "Benchmarking" mean with this glossary of health care quality terms.

This guide describes actions you can take to receiving high quality health care.

This page is from NCQA's Essential Guide to health care quality for consumers. Detailed information in this booklet includes: What quality health care is, what affects health care quality, how quality is measured, how payment can affect quality, how to reduce medical errors and use health information technology.