Hospital Rankings - How Do You Do It?

The way we rank hospitals is by studying tens of millions of receipts that the federal government receives from the several thousand us. Hospitals each year. So every time a person who has medi care as their insurance gets hospitalized, the hospital cha ges the us Taxpayer for their care,. and then we at us news get a copy of the resulting receipt. Those receipts give us important details about each patient. We know what diseases they had, we know what procedures doctors used to treat them. And when you add millions of data points like that together, if you analyze them, in a thoughtful and sophisticated way, you can infer a great deal about which hospitals are good and what they're good at