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Grace Whitfield

Health Data Editor

CMS hospital price, quality, and Medicare outcome data

Grace Whitfield leads how HospitalCostData compiles CMS hospital data. The role decides which CMS Provider Data Catalog, Hospital Compare, and Medicare Inpatient Prospective Payment System fields each hospital and state page draws on, documents the methodology, and triages corrections. Price, quality-rating, and outcome figures are drafted with AI assistance and editorially reviewed against the underlying CMS releases.

Areas of focus

CMS Provider Data CatalogCMS Hospital CompareMedicare IPPSquality star ratings

How our content is produced

Content is produced by an AI-augmented editorial team: research and drafting are AI-assisted and reviewed by the named desk editor against primary public-data sources before publication.

See our Editorial Policy, Fact-Checking Policy, and Corrections Policy.

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