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Deep Analysis — Exploring $854.8B in Medicare Data

Go beyond the headlines. These analyses dig into specific aspects of Medicare spending using 96 million rows of CMS physician payment data.

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Place of Service

Office vs Facility: Where Medicare Money Flows

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Geographic

Spending Hotspots by City & Zip Code

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Cost Adjustment

The Geographic Cost Gap

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Payment Gap

Charged vs Allowed vs Paid: The Three-Way Gap

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Utilization

Individual Doctors vs Corporate Medicine

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Markup Analysis

What Doctors Charge vs What Medicare Pays

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Drug Spending

Medicare's Pharmaceutical Pipeline

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Rural vs Urban

The Geographic Divide in Medicare

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Trends

10 Years of Medicare Spending

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