CMS has released the Medicare payments made to doctors in 2012. This will be an annual update henceforth. We're talking the name, address, billed charges, and paid amounts to over 800,000 US physicians on a government website. The reason is to help "track fraud and provide clarity on physician charges". Already lots of media noise has been made about the lone ophthalmologist posting millions of earnings, some doctor injecting every old retiree in south Florida with macular degeneration and getting paid $21 million--at some point, aren't there any brakes on the payouts? And if there aren't any brakes, and the work is being legitimately performed, who are they to "out" this doctor in this fashion?
Oh, the Sherman anti trust act muzzles how we can discuss fees, but then this is posted publicly?
Is there any HIPPA protections for the physician? Of course not.
In return, here's what I want:
1. The name, address, and W-2 or 1099 earnings of every government employee, "civil servant", politician, etc. posted as a searchable icon on the .gov server.
2. The name, address and amount of federal subsidy given to healthcare.gov subsidy recipients. I must know what the patient I'm treating got from the feds, and how much. If they must know what I got, then it's a 2-way street.
3. The actual federal pay-out given to all the banks, with the breakdown of how federal monies have been distributed to all the government contracts, corporations and CIA informants.
It's the attack on doctors to blackmail and destroy us so they can put RNP's and PA's in charge of patient care. I will be filled with schadenfreude after I'm filled with rage.
