Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Adopts New Policy Permitting Release of Physician Medicare Billing Data to the Public
A Health Care Insight by Washington, D.C., partner Jesse Witten was published in Med Monthly medical magazine on Feb. 28, 2014.
In the article, Jesse discusses the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' announcement that it will reverse a long-standing agency policy and begin to release Medicare billing data of physicians in response to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, on a case-by-case basis. The policy will take effect on March 18, 2014. Under this policy, researchers – and data miners of all sorts – may gain access to previously unavailable information on physician coding and billing patterns.
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