DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2010 Issue 11 (November)

Benchmark of the Week: Total revenue vs. average payments by specialty, 2008 vs. 2009

Summary: These charts compare a specialty's average payment per service to its total annual Medicare payment for 2008 and 2009. NOTE: Average payments per service were calculated by dividing total Medicare revenue by the number of successfully paid services. These 10 specialties were chosen because they had very high annual Medicare utilization in 2009, ranging from nearly 44 million claims billed annually (infectious disease) to nearly 328 million claims (hematology/oncology).

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