Users are able to look up real-life provider information such as their specialties, provider type, address, and NPI (National Provider Identifier) numbers.
Currently only filtering Medi-Cal Fee-For-Service doctors in Los Angeles, CA.
Dataset of providers were retrieved from California Health and Human Services Open Data Portal on November 2021.
Dataset of Insurance plans were retrieved from Covered California, a California run health insurance exchange (also retrieved on November 2021).
Insurance coverage information of these providers was NOT retrieved from a real-world dataset so seed data was created to simulate provider insurance coverage.
Some data munging/cleaning was performed, resulting in ~14,000 providers in Los Angeles and 98 insurance plans.
Randomly seeded provider to insurance plan relationship resulted in roughly 300,000 rows of data.
Users are able to check if the provider is in-network or out-of-network when booking appointments.
Appointment form checks for provider's future appointments and only shows available time slots so the provider's are not double-booked.
Once the appointment has been made, users are able to see their appointments in their User's Page and past appointments are listed in Past Appointment Page.
In future releases, users will be able to make reviews of their past appointments and view each provider's review and ratings
Allow users to create and edit reviews and ratings of providers
Expand search options to include providers in California
Add map functionality