CMS Releases List of Consumer Selected 5-Star Hospitals by State

Whenever serious illness strikes us or our loved ones, we want the best healthcare resources to improve their well-being quickly.

Inpatient hospital care is an essential resource for serious illness. We want the best hospital resources available to facilitate improved outcomes quickly.

As an agent, you can assist your clients by showing them the best rated hospitals in their area. This article shows you how to access some of the best hospital-rating data available.

Picking a Good Hospital

Various resources are available to determine the best hospitals, but one of the most interesting is the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

This data is interesting as it comes from consumer recommendations and answers many questions, including, “Would you recommend this hospital to your friends and family?”

These data and ratings come from those who have experienced these hospitals directly during an illness or injury.

Direct consumer experience makes this data among the best measures for evaluating hospitals.

By State

This article from Becker’s Hospital Review discusses the data and lists hospitals in each state that achieved 5-star ratings.
The hospitals are listed alphabetically in each state, with their location and city also included for reference. The state list is also alphabetical.

Selling Success Means Accessing the Best Provider Care

People want to have access to the best care possible, and that is especially true for inpatient hospital care. You must ensure your contracted health insurance plans have access to as many of these hospitals as possible. The more plans you have in your portfolio with this access, the easier it will be to close your sales, no matter the health insurance product.

How Agility Can Help

The information we provide above is great for agents to access from a market intelligence perspective. It gives agents intel on where the best hospitals are located, which they can use to cross-reference to their best health insurance options by market.

After doing this market analysis, find the health plans with these hospitals in your markets on our ACA carrier provider search and Medicare carrier provider search. When you find the health plans with these 5-star hospitals in-network, contract with them on our ACA contracting and Medicare contracting websites if you don’t already have contracts with them.

Contact Agility now at (866) 590-9771 or email [email protected] with questions and to receive strategies on the best ways to talk about these 5-star hospitals with your clients and prospects both. Agility can also add you to our weekly free email list for more tips and other vital information for delivered to your inbox!

This information enables agents to build credibility with clients and become Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) with the best insurance coverage options available in your markets. Good luck, and Agility hopes this information enhances your business!