Monterey, CA Medicare Physician-Payment Records Should Be Released To The Public Again Next Month

Last year’s release of Medicare physician-payment in April caused a huge uproar as it became apparent many physicians and others in the medical community were overbilling the government.  This is likely to happen again next month after the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services announced plans recently to release the data each year.  Although the American Medical Association and others have asked the government not to release the data because of privacy concerns, I think the majority of Americans would like to see it.  It also has the impact of discouraging Medicare fraud when unethical people realize that they can be readily exposed through the release of this information to the public.  The Wall Street Journal and other major publications did a great job in covering this scandal as I am sure they will do again this year.