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Benchmark of the Week: Medicare spending on E/M services, 2007-2008
Last week we examined Medicare spending growth broken down by broad type-of-service categories such as imaging services and office visits (PBN 6/8/09). This chart gets more specific by looking at spending changes for E/M services. Like last week's Benchmark, all data comes from an April 2009 report by the AMA called "Estimated change in SGR spending from 2007 to 2008."
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