A bipartisan bill recently introduced in the House of Representatives would require healthcare providers to disclose Medicare payments to enable public comparison.
Introduced by Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) and co-sponsored by Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), the Medicare Data Access for Transparency and Accountability Act would result in consumer access to information on individual providers, the services they billed Medicare for and the amounts billed.
A companion bill was introduced in the Senate in June.
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