Medicare Care Compare vs Orderly Provider Directory

Medicare Care Compare is a free web tool for finding and comparing Medicare providers. Medicare patients and caregivers can search for clinicians and groups enrolled in Medicare, then use maps and filters to look for providers that suit their needs. Listings span doctors and clinicians, hospitals, nursing homes, home health and hospice services, inpatient rehabilitation facilities, long-term care hospitals, dialysis facilities, community health centers, and medical equipment and suppliers. Clinician profiles may show measure-level star ratings, performance scores, check marks, telehealth indicators, and procedure-volume data. Nursing home overall ratings draw on health inspections, staffing, and quality measures; CMS reports more than 150 hospital quality measures through Care Compare and the Provider Data Catalog. General clinician and group information is updated monthly, while performance information is updated annually. Provider data downloads are available through the Provider Data Catalog on Data.cms.gov. Hospital data in Care Compare is limited to Medicare-certified hospitals. The interface is described as optimized for mobile and tablet use, with provider phone numbers that can be tapped to call.

Orderly Provider Directory combines real-time clinician and healthcare-entity data for organizations that need provider search and directory records. The directory lists 6.4 million clinician profiles across more than 500 specialties. Real-time search can be narrowed with Care Categories, Provider Tags, specialty filters, and insurance filters. Profiles may connect clinicians with the entities where they work and include NPI, contact details, specialties, credentials, affiliations, network status, sanctions, licenses, and Care Categories. Orderly says records draw from public sources, data partnerships, and customer insights, including attested data. Proprietary algorithms process and validate information, while field-level confidence scores weigh source quality, data age, and decay. Customers can use those scores through the API and online interface. Access is available through APIs, a web portal, or scheduled flat-file transfers in JSON, XLSX, or CSV. The service includes organization profiles and update timestamps with reason codes for CMS compliance. Orderly describes its solutions as serving payers, providers, and health technology companies. Pricing is available on request, with annual national, regional, clinician-group, or usage-based options.