The Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) announced today that they will release a huge database containing information on procedures provided by by doctors for Medicare patients and the payments they received. Sounds exciting, right?! This is in fact big news for transparency in medical reimbursements, in ways that could be very helpful for patients making choices about providers. A previous CMS data release, on Medicare payments made to hospitals, showed massive disparities in hospital charges, including in Arkansas.