As part of an initiative to increase government transparency, CMS in January announced
it would begin releasing information on amounts paid to individual
physicians under the Medicare program, but only on a case-by case basis.
Now, through the blog and in letters
to the American Medical Association and Florida Medical Association,
CMS is explaining its rationale for a big data dump that will start no
earlier than April 9.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services expects soon to publicly
post Medicare payment information on more than 880,000 healthcare
professionals in all 50 states.
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