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Benchmark of the Week: Top utilization changes by specialty, 2010-2011
These two charts show the top 13 specialties with the greatest utilization growth and decline from 2010 to 2011. Note: The bars in the graphs represent the percent change in utilization or how many claims were billed over those two years and do not reflect total number of claims billed. Also, specialties that billed fewer than 1 million claims a year were excluded from the analysis.
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