Healthcare tools for patients
Tools sized for the conversation you actually have with your care team and your insurance company.
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Paste a bill, decode an EOB, check a denial against the No Surprises Act, or draft an appeal letter. Every input stays on your device.
61 tools in this hub, all free, all in your browser.
Insurance & Patient Literacy
- Appeal Letter Generator Generate a printable health-insurance appeal letter from the basics of a denied claim.
- HIPAA Right of Access Request Generator Generate a printable HIPAA Right of Access request letter that a patient can send to a covered entity to…
- Medicare Appeal-Level Deadline Calculator Medicare claim-appeal deadline.
- Medicare Patient Cost-Share (Part A / B / SNF) Medicare patient cost-share.
- Coordination of Benefits & Medicare Secondary Payer Coordination of benefits.
- Contractual Write-Off vs Patient Balance Allowed-amount split: contractual write-off, patient responsibility (deductible + coinsurance + copay), and…
- No Surprises Act Cost-Share (QPA-Based) No Surprises Act cost-share.
- Lab Result Interpreter Paste or type CBC, CMP, lipid-panel, hemoglobin A1c, or TSH values and Sophie Well returns plain-language…
Clinical Math & Conversions
- BMI Calculator Compute body mass index from weight (kg) and height (m).
- Pack-Years Compute cigarette pack-years from the standard tobacco-history measure: packs per day multiplied by years smoked.
- Naegele Pregnancy Due Date Compute the estimated date of delivery from the first day of the last menstrual period using Naegele's rule.
- Pregnancy Dating (LMP / CRL / EDD) Two pregnancy-dating calculations in one tool.
- Non-HDL & Remnant Cholesterol Non-HDL and remnant cholesterol.
- Calculated LDL (Friedewald + NIH) LDL cholesterol by Friedewald and NIH (Sampson 2020) equations plus non-HDL; Friedewald invalid at TG >=400.
- Estimated Average Glucose from A1c (eAG) Estimated average glucose from HbA1c (ADAG: eAG = 28.7*A1c - 46.7), reported in mg/dL and mmol/L.
Clinical Scoring & Risk
- PHQ-9 Depression Screener Score the PHQ-9 depression screener.
- GAD-7 Anxiety Screener Administer the seven-item Generalized Anxiety Disorder scale (Spitzer 2006).
- AUDIT-C Alcohol Screener Administer the three-item AUDIT-C alcohol-use screen (Bush 1998).
- CAGE Alcohol Screener Score the four-question CAGE alcohol-use disorder screen.
- Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale Score the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS), a ten-item validated screen for perinatal and postpartum depression.
- STOP-BANG OSA Screen STOP-BANG OSA screen (Chung 2012).
- Epworth Sleepiness Scale Epworth Sleepiness Scale (Johns 1991).
- Berlin Questionnaire (OSA) Berlin Questionnaire for OSA (Netzer 1999).
- Asthma Control Test (ACT) The Asthma Control Test, five patient-rated items about the past four weeks.
- Childhood Asthma Control Test (c-ACT) The Childhood Asthma Control Test, for children roughly 4 to 11 years old.
- PC-PTSD-5 (Primary Care PTSD Screen for DSM-5) The Primary Care PTSD Screen for DSM-5 (PC-PTSD-5): a five-item yes-or-no screen, total 0 to 5.
- ALSFRS-R (ALS Functional Rating Scale, Revised) The ALS Functional Rating Scale - Revised (Cedarbaum and colleagues 1999): twelve functions rated 0 to 4 for a total of 0 to 48.
- SNOT-22 (Sino-Nasal Outcome Test) The 22-item Sino-Nasal Outcome Test (SNOT-22), a PATIENT-REPORTED measure of the symptom burden of rhinosinusitis.
- PUQE-24 (Nausea and Vomiting of Pregnancy) The PUQE-24…
- THI (Tinnitus Handicap Inventory) The Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (THI; Newman and colleagues 1996), a 25-item self-report measure of how much…
- OSDI (Ocular Surface Disease Index) The Ocular Surface Disease Index (OSDI; Schiffman and colleagues 2000), a 12-item PATIENT-REPORTED measure of…
- SPADI (Shoulder Pain and Disability Index) The Shoulder Pain and Disability Index (SPADI; Roach and colleagues 1991), a PATIENT-REPORTED measure of…
- NIH-CPSI (Chronic Prostatitis Symptom Index) The NIH Chronic Prostatitis Symptom Index (NIH-CPSI; Litwin and colleagues, J Urol 1999).
- Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) for low-back-pain disability.
- Altman Self-Rating Mania Scale (ASRM) Altman Self-Rating Mania Scale (Altman 1997).
- GerdQ (Reflux Disease Questionnaire) GerdQ (Jones 2009): six-item screen for gastroesophageal reflux disease over the past week.
- POSAS Patient Scale (Scar Assessment) POSAS Patient Scale (Draaijers 2004; v2.0 van de Kar 2005).
- PHQ-15 Somatic Symptom Severity PHQ-15 (Patient Health Questionnaire-15; Kroenke 2002).
- Kessler K6 Psychological Distress Kessler K6 psychological distress scale (Kessler 2003).
- Short Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test (SMAST) Short Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test (SMAST) (Selzer 1975): 13-item self-administered yes/no screen for alcohol problems.
- CAGE-AID (Alcohol & Drug Screen) CAGE-AID (CAGE Adapted to Include Drugs) (Brown & Rounds 1995): 4-item yes/no screen for alcohol and other drug problems.
- ADA / Bang Diabetes Risk Test ADA diabetes risk test.
- Waist-to-Height Ratio (WHtR) Waist-to-height ratio (Ashwell) = waist circumference / height, any consistent unit.
- POEM (Patient-Oriented Eczema Measure) POEM (Charman 2004): seven symptom items each scored 0–4 by days affected in the past week give a 0–28…
- PEST (Psoriatic Arthritis Screening Tool) PEST (Ibrahim 2009): five yes/no items (swollen joint, arthritis diagnosis, nail pits, heel pain, dactylitis).
- ID Migraine Screener ID Migraine (Lipton 2003): nausea, photophobia, and disability screen for migraine; ≥ 2 of 3 is a positive screen.
- Dizziness Handicap Inventory (DHI) Dizziness Handicap Inventory (Jacobson & Newman 1990).
- PBAC (Pictorial Blood Loss Assessment Chart) Pictorial Blood Assessment Chart (Higham 1990).
- Menopause Rating Scale (MRS) Menopause Rating Scale (Heinemann 2004).
- Simple Shoulder Test (SST) Simple Shoulder Test (Lippitt, Harryman and Matsen 1993).
Workflow & Documentation
- Appointment Prep Question Generator A templated patient question-generator for an upcoming healthcare appointment.
- HIPAA Authorization Form Generator Build a HIPAA Authorization for Use or Disclosure of Protected Health Information form that includes every…
- ROI Request Generator Generate a patient-authored Release of Information (ROI) request asking a covered entity to send a specified…
- Discharge Instruction Template Build a printable discharge-instruction template that covers the structural sections every hospital discharge…
- Specialty-Visit Question Generator Pick a specialty…
- Medication Wallet Card Generator Generate a print-ready, wallet-sized medication and health summary.
EMS & Field Medicine
Immunization & Infectious Disease
Pediatrics & Neonatal
- Universal Unit Converter (lab + vitals + basics) Convert between the units that show up in medicine.
- Time-to-Dose Helper Take the time of a patient's last dose plus a frequency abbreviation…
- Pediatric Weight Converter (lb/oz <-> kg) Convert a pediatric weight between pounds (decimal), pounds-and-ounces, and kilograms.