CMS released its updated Physician and Other Supplier Utilization and Payment public use data, which includes summarized information on Part B services and procedures provided to Medicare beneficiaries, according to Health Data Management.
Here are five points:
1. CMS timed the Physician and Other Supplier Utilization and Payment public use data's release data to coincide with next week's Health Datapalooza conference.
2. The updated information aims to provide physicians more transparency about the Medicare program and give researchers more timely data.
3. The updated Medicare Part B information includes data on payment and submitted charges for services and procedures each physician or supplier provides.
4. The 2014 updated dataset contains information for more than 986,000 providers, up from 950,000 providers in 2013. Also, the data has provider payment information of $91 billion in Medicare payments, compared to $90 billion in 2013.
5. By the end of this year, CMS intends to tie 85 percent of all traditional Medicare payments to quality or value.
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