DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2010 Issue 8 (August)

Benchmark of the Week: Code utilization categories by specialty, 2008

This chart compares nine specialties with some of the highest Medicare utilization, to see how their billing breaks down by code category. The data lets you see at a glance where a specialty's utilization comes from, whether it's E/M services (99201-99499), imaging and radiology (70000-79999), lab tests (80000-89999), medicine and therapy (90281-98962) or surgery and anesthesia (00100-69990). All statistics are based on CMS claims data from 2008, the latest available.

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