Request For Public Comments On The Potential Release Of Medicare Physician Data

August 6, 2013
Request For Public Comments On The Potential Release Of Medicare Physician Data
A court ruling in May 2013 lifted an injunction preventing the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) from disclosing how much it paid individual physicians. On August 6, 2013, CMS sought public comment on its plans to revise policies on disclosing Medicare fee-for-service reimbursements made to individual physicians. Comments were due by September 6, 2013. On January 14, 2014, the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that starting March 18, 2014, it would begin releasing individual physician Medicare . . .