Medicare beneficiaries’ medical records are already accessible by Government auditors.
How else would they have uncovered the ‘Scooter Wheeler Dealer scandal’??
All private health insurance carriers have auditors - and presently they are contracted to process claims for Medicare. How else do we learn the percentage of fraud and abuse? Someone is checking medical records for age, disorder, treatment, medications, referrals etc.,
I know someone, whose Medicare was fouled up for over 1 1/2 years because Medicare made data entry errors in two places of this indviduals record. Medicare would not correct the problem and it took a US Congressman twice to finally get it corrected. It will be an nightmare if everyone’s record is on line.