Because insurance and availability are constantly changing, you would need full-time staff for a website that can accurately return those details. Even most search tools from insurers that I've used aren't up to date with practices that accept their insurance!Maybe we just do old school internet and provide information for free (I know, shocker) to eliminate the information differential without monetizing on it, plenty if idealistic people left that do not mind spending an hour or two without being reimbursed for itAssuming you and I got together and invented a website that could do all that, how would we monetize it so we could pay the staff?Is there a good general purpose search tool for doctors (general practioner/PCP)?
Ideally, information I'd like to see/screen with include:
MD (not NP or the like)
within X distance of me
Accepts my insurance
Accepts new patients (and has appointments available within 2-4 weeks)
Screen by, or at least show, educational background (i.e. where they went to med school)
Possibly some variation of "rating" either by other patients or board complaints or the like. I can live without this. (I understand the potential limitations of such a thing.)
My insurance provider has a screening tool, but it mixes in various non-MDs, doesn't show educational pedigree, and is missing or inaccurate (I think) on several of the above.
WebMD has a tool, but it didn't seem very good to me. It also has seemingly outdated information for one doctor I checked (the doctor I plan to switch away from).
Statistics: Posted by cmr79 — Sat Jul 20, 2024 7:35 am