CMS Releases New Sets Of Hospital & Physician Data

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released three new sets of data that detail how much hospitals billed and received for inpatient and outpatient services and how much Medicare paid physicians in 2013. Data on hospital inpatient and outpatient charges first came out in the summer of 2013, and Medicare physician data were released in the spring of 2014. Under President Obama's administration, the CMS has published information on Medicare Part D payments and money exchanged between physicians and industry. The latest data show what hospitals charged and what Medicare paid those hospitals for 100 of the . . .