“Debate is growing over public access to anticipated data comparing the results of health care treatments subsidized by Medicare and Medicaid.
The records of physician claims paid by Medicare are not available currently to the public, despite court battles by consumer advocates to make the Health and Human Services Department release certain claims that are stripped of patient names. “No other vendors, besides those doing work for classified operations, have that kind of privacy,” said Brian Klepper, managing principal of Florida-based market research firm Healthcare Performance.”
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Aliya Sternstein, NextGov, 17 April 2009
