Medicare will soon begin releasing payment data for individual physicians on a “case-by-case basis,” the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced this week.
Medicare will soon begin releasing payment data for individual physicians on a “case-by-case basis,” the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced this week.
The agency had previously blocked release of specific Medicare physician-payment data, considering it an invasion of privacy. But last May a federal judge in Florida ruled that public interest superseded physician privacy.
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