How HealthFinder Builds Its Listings

HealthFinder lists a hospital, clinic, diagnostic centre or doctor when a public source names it. Every fact on a page carries the source it came from and, for prices and register entries, the date it was read. HealthFinder writes no fact of its own.

Where does HealthFinder's data come from?

1. Google Maps. A typed search for hospitals, clinics, diagnostic centres, dental clinics, physiotherapy and skin clinics, and one typed search per specialty for doctors, across every city in the directory. Name, address, coordinates, phone, website, hours, rating, review count and up to four review excerpts come from the Google business profile.
2. Government registers. PM-JAY empanelment from the National Health Authority and state health agency lists; CGHS empanelment from the CGHS city lists; ECHS empanelment from the ECHS lists; NABH accreditation from the NABH portal. Each row is matched to a listing by name and city, and the page links to the register document with the date read.
3. The Indian Medical Register. Registration number, council and year for doctors matched by name on the NMC register. A match is shown as "matched"; an unmatched doctor shows "not matched yet", never a guess.
4. The provider's own pages. Consultation fees, test prices and profile text from the doctor's or centre's own website or published rate card, quoted with the page URL and the date. Profile text from the earlier healthfinder.in site is shown as published there, with its date.
5. The provider. A doctor or hospital that claims a listing can correct details and add what only they know. Claimed listings are marked.

What do the labels mean?

• On register: the hospital appears on the named scheme register as read on the stated date. "Not listed" means the registers we read do not name it; it does not mean the hospital refuses the scheme.
• Registration matched: the doctor's name matched an entry on the Indian Medical Register. Verify the number yourself at nmc.org.in before treatment.
• Fee and price: the figure on the provider's own page on the date read. Not a quote; follow-up fees, contrast and home collection are often extra.
• Awaiting verification: Google lists the place, but the profile has no rating, phone or website. These appear as compact rows without a page.

How are hospitals and doctors ordered?

By Google rating weighted by review count, so a handful of five-star reviews does not outrank hundreds at 4.8, with a small lift for a website, a published fee or price, a scheme register entry, NABH accreditation and a matched registration. Claims, enquiries and sponsorship never change the order. A sponsored placement, when one exists, is labelled and sits outside the ranked list.

What does HealthFinder not do?

HealthFinder does not visit providers, verify qualifications beyond the public register, assess clinical quality or recommend treatment. Reviews describe one patient's experience. Prices change. Treat every page as a starting point and confirm with the provider.