The world has suddenly changed. Recently, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in US (CMS), released a dataset showing Inpatient hospital charges to Medicare for 100 of the most common inpatient diagnosis codes and also releasing Outpatient charge data for 30 of the most common ambulatory payment codes.
Prices charged to Medicare were formerly top-secret and closely guarded. Hospitals and health systems kept this information confidential because making it public could impact how they compete with other provider institutions and could also impact complex price negotiations with private third party insurers.
The datasets have been downloaded more than 300,000 times already, and the number of downloads continues to increase. Geolocation data shows that the data has been downloaded by users in every state in the U.S. and also by users in more than 130 different countries (Source: Health 2.0, June 20, 2013)
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