Order To Dissolve Injunction In Florida Medical Association v. HEW Preventing Disclosure Of Physician Medicare Payment Data

May 31, 2013
On May 31, 2013, a federal judge lifted a ban on public access to the Medicare Carrier Standard Analytic File. The file contains information on Medicare payments to physicians and other health care professionals participating in Medicare who are paid on a fee-for-service basis. The legal ruling was on a motion filed in January 2011 by Dow Jones, the publisher of the Wall Street Journal. The plaintiffs sought to lift an injunction on public access to the file imposed in 1979 by a judge who ruled that disclosing information in the file would violate the . . .