Quality Care

 

Find a Doctor

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Tips to consider

  • Check their board certification status, their training locations (you can check it at the doctors’ website or the hospital’s website), years of experiences, number of research studies published and volume of procedures performed.

  • How many times have they performed a specific procedure? They should be highly experienced.

  • Are they just experienced in a specific procedure, do they also perform minimally invasive surgery? 

  • What outcomes have they achieved?

  • If there is a physician that would want to do every possible test out there be weary of them, they might be trying to get some extra profit.

Steps for Choosing a Physician

1. Check doctor’s Florida license at:

The Florida Department of Health

2. Choose physicians with medical school affiliations.

Check for the State Medical Boards.

Florida Health Source 

3. Compare physicians by visiting:

Health Grades

U.S. Health News 

Amino 

Checkbook

4. To know your doctor’s practice better, with a description of office visits and costs, check:

ProPublica Vital Signs

5. To know about drug and device co-payments received by your doctor (does not include other health professionals), check:

ProPublica Dollars for Docs

CMS Open Payments

6. To know about death and complication rates performed in some elective procedures, check:

ProPublica Surgeon ScoreCard