CMS releases prescriber data
May 03, 2015
CMS has released prescriber data, identifying individual physicians and detailing which prescriptions they wrote for Medicare patients in 2013. This is certainly a welcome step towards transparency -- it's great that the general public now has access to this data.
We're not quite sure how this data can be used to help people select personal physicians. Obviously, though, this data can be used for other applications (such as fraud detection). We'll give some thought as to whether this can be useful to patients; if you have any ideas for how to use this data, please let us know.