This week the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released raw data on how individual medical providers treat America’s seniors. This is a historical publication into how Medicare expenditures are distributed because access has been denied since 1979, when a Florida court issued a permanent injunction barring the government form releasing information about Medicare Part B payments to individual physicians in any manner that would allow the doctor to be identified. However, in 2011, the parent company of The Wall Street Journal successfully sued to overturn the injunction.
