Former Humana Director Launches Website To Compare Hospital Prices, Quality Ratings

Former director of strategy at Humana, Steve Makela, recently launched a new website that allows consumers to compare hospital prices and quality ratings. The website, JoePatient.com, provides consumers with this information by retrieving data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

Launched earlier this month, the website not only provides information for hospital comparisons, but also allows users to read news stories about health care facilities and share their inpatient experiences with others. The launch of the website accompanies a recent order from the Trump administration, which requires hospitals to post list prices for all of the . . .