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73 customer reviews of W. Matthew White, M.D.. One of the best Plastic Surgeons businesses at 800A Fifth Avenue, Suite 502A, New York, NY 10065 United States. Find reviews, ratings, directions, business hours, and book appointments online.
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Aug 8, 2024 · BBB has investigated this company based on the volume and nature of complaints filed by consumers about “Goals Aesthetics & Plastic Surgery” locations in New York and Atlanta.
26 Answers from Board Certified Facial Plastic Surgeon W. Matthew White, MD See Education, Board Certification, and Treatments Offered.
Dr. White is by far one of the best surgeons in NYC. My life has improved tremendously since my nasal septum septoplasty surgery - it was a fix from a different doctor from over 20 years ago. I was very scared to have surgery again - Dr.White & his team put me at ease. Dr.White is a true artist.
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- ‘Surgeon Scorecard’ Evaluates Performance
- A Similar Database for the Best of the Best
Two new sites powered by nonprofit groups are publishing the complication and surgery outcome rates of surgeons.
For years, if you wanted to order a pizza, you could consult numerous sources, such as Yelp or Google Reviews, to see who was the best.
And only your dinner was at stake.
But if you wanted rating information on doctors performing high-risk surgery, the same subjective scrutiny given to a Domino’s order was all that was available.
That didn’t make sense to Stephen Engelberg. Especially considering preventable hospital errors are now the third leading cause of death in the United States — resulting in 440,000 deaths annually.
So, Engelberg, editor-in-chief of the nonprofit ProPublica, decided a year ago to use big data to peel back the curtain to give patients an accurate picture of who’s holding the scalpel during these procedures.
ProPublica released Surgeon Scorecard, a search engine that uses data from 63,173 Medicare patients who were readmitted to the hospital after eight elective procedures from 2009 to 2013.
Those surgeries were knee replacement, hip replacement, gallbladder removal, lumbar spinal fusion — both posterior and anterior technique — prostate resection, prostate removal, and cervical spinal fusion.
During that time, 3,405 Medicare patients died during a hospital stay for those elective procedures.
But instead of taking the figures at face value, the ProPublica team evaluated cases of hospital readmission and surgeon mistakes to give potential patients an idea of who has high rates of complications.
In 1999, a report from the Institute of Medicine, titled “To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System,” called for a national reporting system of serious adverse effects, including death, related to hospital procedures.
However, no such system has been established.
While the ProPublica database evaluates surgeons on their best and worst days, another new search engine, SurgeonRatings.org, ignores surgeons with low ratings and focuses on the ones with higher success rates.
The site, powered by the nonprofit Consumers’ Checkbook/Center for the Study of Services, analyzed more than 4 million operations conducted by 50,000 surgeons in the United States.
The site doesn’t include the kind of “buyer beware” scenarios of ProPublica, only those doctors with positive ratings on surgeries.
Those procedures include pacemaker surgery, femur fracture repair, gallbladder removal, heart bypass, hernia repair, hysterectomy, major bowel surgery, prostate removal, and spinal cord fusion.
“For more than 20 years, we have evaluated hospital performance using these types of data, and spent many years pushing and suing the federal government to release the data for doctors,” the website states. “Thanks to some forward-thinking people in the government, it’s finally now available.”
Now, as more large groups of data are available to the public, consumers can expect to get a better look into the practices and outcomes of those providing care in the U.S. healthcare system, an industry that reached $2.9 trillion in spending in 2013.
- Brian Krans
Renowned for his compassionate bedside manner and conservative methods yielding beautiful, natural outcomes, Dr. Matthew White's credentials and extensive experience underscore his status as a highly esteemed facial plastic surgeon in NYC.
Sep 19, 2016 · See where double board certified facial plastic surgeon W. Matthew White M.D. has been featured in the media in New York City and across the country.
