I wrote recently about the release of physician billing information by CMS  and noted that news organizations had quickly provided tools to look-up individual physicians. Propublica  an “independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest” has gone one better. In keeping with their mission to “expose abuses of power and betrayals of the public trust… through the sustained spotlighting of wrongdoing” they recently posted a more powerful online tool for analyzing and viewing  the CMS data along with a companion story of what they found by using it. Continue reading More Sunshine →