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.
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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.
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