Verification
Recommendations are only as credible as the evidence behind them.
Ulseter never publishes a claim about a provider unless it traces back to where it came from. This page explains how.
Provider verification
Every provider is manually researched before any figure is published, never scraped and assumed correct. Identity and location are confirmed first; cost, waiting time, and trust signals are then sourced individually, each with its own confidence level.
Source tracking
Every source is categorized by how independent it is from the provider’s own incentive to look favorable:
Tier 1 · Provider-verified sources
Direct outreach, provider-confirmed figures, and official regulatory or licensing registries. The default, preferred source for cost, availability, and identity facts.
Tier 2 · Accreditation databases
Independent accreditation and certification registries, checked against the accrediting body itself, not taken on a provider's word alone.
Tier 3 · Public and patient sources
Public directories and review platforms. Used only as supplementary signals, never as the sole basis for a published figure.
Confidence levels
Confidence reflects how a fact was actually obtained, not how convenient, prominent, or repeated it happens to be.
High
Confirmed directly and independently cross-checked against a second source, a provider-confirmed figure that also matches a public or accreditation-body record, for example.
Medium
Confirmed from a single credible source, a direct provider confirmation, or a published record, without an independent cross-check yet.
Low
Sourced from an unconfirmed public claim, a secondary aggregator, or an internal estimate. Shown clearly as low-confidence, never presented with false certainty.
Direct verification
Much of what you need to know isn’t public: real cost, real waiting times, which languages are actually spoken. Where it isn’t, we ask the provider directly. Their answer is valuable, but it only reaches our highest confidence level once a second, independent source confirms it.
Transparent recommendations
A recommendation is only ever produced from evidence already gathered, never generated or estimated on the spot. Every result traces back to the facts that produced it.