[btown]

Do you have any papers or writeups on your methodology and dataset? Would be very interesting to see whether this could direct law enforcement (or, barring that, making it public knowledge so consumers can choose to avoid doctors where there is evidence of questionable behavior).

[gesman]

Yes. Here was initial write up:

https://www.splunk.com/blog/2017/09/28/building-a-60-billion...

https://www.splunk.com/blog/2017/10/03/building-a-60-billion...

Also I combined prescription dataset with provider payment dataset and it allows to discover potential conflict of interest where provider got compensated by drug manufacturer (speaking fees, stock, conferences).

Good idea to make this data publicly searchable.

It’s not that difficult.

So anyone could search for his favorite doctor name and find how much and for which drugs the doctor billed Medicare for. And how often, how much and when he was compensated by drug manufacturers.