Eye on the FDA: Release of CMS Medicare Payment Data a Sunshine Dress Rehearsal

April 15, 2014

There were two major healthcare stories last week.  One involved the announcement that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius would be leaving and the nomination by President Obama of Office of Management and Budget Director Sylvia Mathews Burwell to replace her.  But also last week CMS made an unprecedented release of Medicare payments data.  For the first time since 1979, the public had access to information regarding which physicians received what kind of sums under Medicare. Media stories were extensive and primarily focused on the amounts of money that went to providers.

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