Obviously there’s pressure from members of Congress with bills created to put this information online and of course there’s the Dow Jones lawsuit wanting the same thing. I think this is perhaps an idea that could wait for a better time, as the cost will be in the millions. It’s just like we have a lot of consumer health apps written today 
and some of it is done just because they can write it. Of course there’s good software created too but a large majority of what is done today ends up on the cutting room floor. I don’t know if anyone else has taken time to notice the deluge of data and information we all have flying at us today but I’m affected and there’s a lot of it, so tell me how many consumers will use this? How many will have time?
Do Some Think That Health IT Costs and Systems Grow On Trees-Certainly Starting To Give That Impression of Late
You don’t always have to create data pools and information to search just because it’s there and again in my opinion this is a huge waste of time and money by all means. Maybe CMS has their own plans for data arranged in this manner and certainly it will be data the insurance companies will all hone in on as they can’t get enough data today and will analyze anything that breathes today.
I can see the restrictions on qualifying who would have access and maybe this is their way out of having to supply this information to more than perhaps a small handful, again after they have spent millions on data that is crunched and full of errors. If you have ever done any medical billing, you know exactly what I am talking about and it’s those in positions who have never been exposed to the information or had any hands on that think this is such a great idea. When everyone is trying to save money we need to spend million on this? I said the Congressmen proposing this were digitally illiterate to want this data out 
there. It’s a waste of time and money right now.
Two More Senators Propose More Bills to Publish Medicare Claims Data Without A Hint of Digital Literacy Relative to Cost and Time
The doctors who have had a run of some bad billers know what is going to show up out there too.
Medicare Data Base–It Is Not Ready for Prime Time To Expose to the Web Due to Errors Factors and Consumer Credibility In It’s Present State Relating to Physician Records
To make my case all you have to do is look at both the CMS and other for profit MD referral sites and see the flaws there and that’s just a yellow pages listing with consumers adding comments along with any negative board comments and they can’t get that right. I’m a taxpayer like everyone else who has worked with data bases and I am up to date on current trends and the huge amounts of data we have to look at and again what’s the purpose of this, spend the big dollars and do it just because it can be done? Where’s common sense anymore?
You can see the post from a short while back where I found my former MD who had been dead for 8 years still listed with HealthGrades and several of the other referral sites as taking new patients and honoring HealthNet, so guess how this claim data is going to look when they take and aggregate it with insurance company numbers. I understand that is the ultimate plan here to combine both Medicare and the insurance numbers. There’s going to be a ton of Health IT companies hanging their tongues out to get a chunk of this multi-million dollar project. 
In the day and age we live in today no data would be better than the flawed information that’s going to result from this project and besides save the money and spend it on patients, a much better cause. Before this decision is finally made, they should go visit some doctors and billers and see what’s going to end up out there, they will tell you and some doctors are not going to look good and it will ultimately offer too much information and make a decision process more difficult. Word of mouth referrals are still the best as well as research on the web to help out. BD
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) intends to allow certain organizations access to Medicare claims data to produce public reports that will offer consumers and employers a more accurate snapshot of the performance of physicians and hospitals.
These reports, combined with private sector claims data, will identify the hospitals and physicians with the highest quality and cost-effective care, the agency said in announcing its proposed rule June 3.
The proposed rule supports efforts of the health reform law to improve healthcare quality and lower costs. CMS will formally publish it in the June 8 Federal Register and accept public comment for 60 days.
CMS to publicly report provider performance | Government Health IT
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