I'm a programmer in the medical field, and have heard complaints that some state medical boards keep important information behind pay-walls, like which doctors

I'm a programmer in the medical field, and have heard complaints that some state medical boards keep important information behind pay-walls, like which doctors are sanctioned. (I wish I knew the details, but don't work directly with state medical boards.) Did you new doctor just move from another state? Do you want to know if he was declared incompetent by the other states medical board? Then pay up. I wonder if they do this out of greed, or they consider it genuinely expensive to give this data out. It makes me think of all the large corporations; often they make tasks I could automate with a few lines of Python sound nearly impossible.