CMS plans unprecedented dump of Medicare data | MassDevice.com On Call
April 4, 2014 by Arezu Sarvestani
The White House plans to publicize a horde of Medicare physician data, perhaps as early as next week.
MASSDEVICE ON CALL — White House officials announced that they plan to make public a rich reservoir of data Medicare payments unlike any publicized before, perhaps as early as next week.
The release will include payments made in 2012 to individual doctors, covering some 880,000 healthcare providers, according to the Wall Street Journal. The move is expected to help healthcare watchdogs curb fraud and examine usage trends.
Officials from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services called the release a major step forward for transparency, but the measure has been a source of serious concern for physicians’ groups, which attempted to block the release.