The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) provides official datasets for the Medicare.gov Physician Compare website to give you useful information about group practices, physicians, and other health care professionals currently enrolled in Medicare.

• The Physician Compare National Downloadable File includes general information about individual eligible professionals (EPs), such as demographic information and Medicare quality program participation.
• The Physician Compare 2014 Individual EP Public Reporting - Clinical Quality of Care file contains performance rates for the 6 Individual EP 2014 Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) measures reported via claims that are available for public reporting. EP measure data is available for 37,464 individual EPs.                 
• The Physician Compare 2014 Group Practice Public Reporting - Clinical Quality of Care file contains performance rates for the 14 group practice 2014 PQRS measures reported via the Web Interface that are available for public reporting. Group practice measure data is available for 271 group practices.
• The Physician Compare 2014 Group Practice Public Reporting - Patient Experience file contains performance rates for the 8 Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) for PQRS measures reported by group practices that are available for public reporting. CAHPS for PQRS measure data is available for 281 group practices.

Because only a sub-set of the measures are included, not all health care professionals and group practices that satisfactorily participated in PQRS and submitted quality measures will have measure data in these files. For more information about which measures are available for public reporting, visit the Physician Compare Initiative page.

Note: Because of data use agreements with data vendors, not all data on Physician Compare can be shared in the Physician Compare National Downloadable File. For more information about what is included in this database and how it differs from the information on the Physician Compare website, refer to the Downloadable Database dictionary (under Get Supporting Documents).

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