About CMS’s Hospital Charge Data Move: There Are No Secrets Anymore

Healthcare Informatics: The announcement this week that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) had publicly released hospital pricing data for the first time led to a wave of mainstream media coverage (not to mention trade press coverage).  From The New York Times to the Washington Post to USA Today to National Public Radio to the ABC Evening News, ad infinitum, print and broadcast media outlets were noting the wild divergences that CMS was publicly revealing, between how two hospitals in the same community have been pricing the very same procedure.

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