Entrepreneurs & Innovators Allowed To Access Medicare Data Through CMS

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a new policy that will allow innovators and entrepreneurs to access CMS data, including Medicare claims. As part of the CMS commitment to use data and information to drive transformation of the healthcare delivery system, CMS will allow innovators and entrepreneurs to conduct approved research that aims to improve care and provide better tools that should benefit health care consumers through a better understanding of what the data says works best in health care. The data will not allow the patient’s identity to be determined, but will provide the identity of . . .