The database provides some details on $3.5 billion in drug- and device-related payments to doctors for consulting, research, and other purposes during the last five months of 2013. CMS initially ...

CMS on Thursday debuted a free public database aimed at supporting interoperable exchange of electronic health information when and where it is needed. The Data Element Library, or DEL, lets users see ...

Doctors can use a government database to compare their practice patterns to others across the nation, says a former Wall Street trader turned physician. The database, maintained by the Centers for ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has announced what it calls the Data Element Library, aimed to help advance electronic health record interoperability in long-term and post-acute care ...

Transparency in healthcare reached a new level over the weekend when the Association of Healthcare Journalists (AHCJ) unveiled a searchable database of past Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ...

$300 million dollars. That's how much industry paid to cardiologists and other related healthcare professionals between August 2013 and December 2014 for consulting, speaking, and other various ...

Despite reported glitches, CMS plans to launch the database that will provide information on payments for research, gifts, meals, or speaker fees received by providers and teaching hospitals from the ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will launch a new accountable care organization (ACO) records database that will house personally identifiable information about participants in the ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced last week it was adding star ratings to its Hospital Compare database, providing for a quick-glance rating system consumers can use when ...