How Providers can Improve their Ranking in TreatCost.com's Search Results

When Sorted by Price

Options:

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Sign a Pricing Contract with TreatCost.com

Provide a lower price for patients who use the website to book their initial consultation. This price will appear on the website and be listed above price match prices. Learn more about TreatCost Pricing Contracts.

2

Implement Price Matching

Sign a Price Matching agreement with TreatCost.com. This will allow your company's prices to be in a tie with the lowest price on the website, and this tied price will appear on the website. Learn more about TreatCost Price Match.

3

Lower Your Prices for Everyone

Post the updated prices on your website. If the price on TreatCost.com is inaccurate, please let us know via our Feedback Form.

When Sorted by TreatScore

TreatScore is a proprietary scoring mechanism created by TreatCost.com. As of March 2026, TreatScore is based on four criteria:

  • 85% Positive reviews on Google Maps
  • 5% from public evidence which shows the surgeon or other providers acknowledge incidents with patients for free
  • 5% from public evidence which shows the surgeon or other providers offer re-treatment or another service to mitigate negative symptoms for free
  • 5% from public evidence which shows the surgeon or other providers referred the patient to another provider who offered a service to mitigate negative symptoms for free (paid for by a provider)

These criteria were chosen after reading dozens of "incident" reviews and patient stories. We try to be completely objective in our ranking, but there is always some subjectivity when reading and interpreting patient reviews and statements. To increase our objectivity, we either use data sources with many data points (like Google Maps reviews) or true/false type statements which are evaluated from patient reviews and statements. We do not require payment from a provider to review the provider, and provider reviews can't be improved through payment.

Prior to improving your TreatScore, you need to evaluate the source of your current TreatScore. Most providers have a good "positive experiences" score, likely created by soliciting Google Maps reviews from patients who had successful surgeries. Many providers do not have a good "incident" score due to a lack of evidence of positive experiences when patients have poor surgery outcomes (a bit of an oxymoron).

Improving your Incident Score

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Find patients who had a negative experience which your company handled well and ask them to post a review of their experience on Google Maps.

An ideal review would cover:

  • Showing your service acknowledged the patient's distress
  • Offered to help the patient via another surgery if that was a viable option
  • Offered to refer the patient to a 3rd party provider who could help the patient more
  • Did not charge the patient monetarily for any of these steps
2

Find multiple patients who covered all of these points

3

Submit a link to your company's policies, which are preferably publicly listed on the internet, to TreatCost's Feedback form. This does not count as "full credit" but it will improve your rating.