Monday, January 20, 2014

CMS Will Consider Disclosing Physician Pay Information Case-By-Case

CMS Will Consider Disclosing Physician Pay Information Case-By-Case-thegraysheet: The new policy, scheduled to take effect March 18, follows on the heels of efforts made by CMS last year to make more data available to the public. In May, CMS released information on the average charges for the 100 most common inpatient services at more than 3,000 hospitals nationwide. (See "Minimal Correlation To Device Costs In CMS-Released Hospital Charge Data" — "The Gray Sheet," May 13, 2013.) And in June, CMS released average charges for 30 selected outpatient procedures.