Medicare officials are going to start releasing information about how much the agency pays individual doctors – but only through public records requests and on a case-by-case basis.
Under the new policy, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) it will evaluate Freedom of Information Act requests for pay data individually as they come in.
“It’s part of that continuing tsunami of information that’s becoming available and making transparency inevitable,” said Mary McWilliams,…
Medicare officials are going to start releasing information about how much the agency pays individual doctors – but only through public records requests and on a case-by-case basis.
Under the new policy, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) it will evaluate Freedom of Information Act requests for pay data individually as they come in.
“It’s part of that continuing tsunami of information that’s becoming available and making transparency inevitable,” said Mary McWilliams,…