Abstract
In a change from longstanding practice, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently began suppressing substance abuse–related claims in the Medicare and Medicaid Research Identifiable Files.1,2 This change was enacted to comply with a 1987 federal regulation barring third party payers from releasing information from federally funded substance abuse treatment programs without patient consent.
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