--- title: "Home Health Policies: Data Initiatives Increase Transparency of the Medicare Program" description: Home Health Policies - CMS is posting the third annual release of the Physician and Other Supplier Utilization and Payment public use data. 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It allows for comparisons by physician, specialty, location, types of medical services and procedures delivered, Medicare payment, and submitted charges. The updated 2014 dataset has information for over 986,000 distinct health care providers (up from 950,000 in 2013) who collectively received $91 billion in Medicare payments (compared to $90 billion in 2013). New in the 2014 data is the Medicare standardized payment amount, which removes geographic differences in payment rates for individual services, such as those that account for local wages or input prices, and makes Medicare payments across geographic areas comparable. CMS protects beneficiaries’ personal information in all its data releases. CMS is also making more timely extracts of [Medicare claims](https://go.myhomecarebiz.com/blog/home-health-care-billing-software-how-to-submit-electronic-claims) data available to researchers who access this data via Limited Data Sets (LDS). Historically, researchers have only been able to request annual extracts of Medicare data under the LDS request process. With the changes announced today, researchers will be able to request updates to their LDS claims files as frequently as quarterly, making it easier to do the important research that will continue to result in better quality and lower costs in the health care system. 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