CMS plans unprecedented dump of Medicare data

CMS plans unprecedented dump of Medicare data-massdevice: MASSDEVICE ON CALL — White House officials announced that they plan to make public a rich reservoir of data Medicare payments unlike any publicized before, perhaps as early as next week. The release will include payments made in 2012 to individual doctors, covering some 880,000 healthcare providers, according to the Wall Street Journal. The move is expected to help healthcare watchdogs curb fraud and examine usage trends.