The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has joined the entities urging the CMS to publish the Medicare earnings and de-identified clinical data of individual physicians. But the foundation stopped short of calling for widespread public release to any interested party.
In recent years, the CMS has published several datasets for the first time, including average hospital charges for common Medicare treatments and the prescribing patterns of doctors in Medicare's drug-benefit program. Now a ruling this year in a 30-year-old lawsuit is prompting the agency to consider releasing a long-sought dataset that would show how individual doctors care for and are paid to treat patients on Medicare.
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