CMS is considering its policy for disclosing the data after a federal judge lifted a 1979 injunction that barred the release of individual physicians’ annual Medicare payments. That court decision stems from a January 2011 request from Dow Jones, publisher of the Wall Street Journal. The newspaper had published a series of articles that identified millions of dollars in fraud by Medicare providers.
Read the full article on Becker’s Hospital Review.
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