Variability in Medicare utilization and payment among urologists

Urology
Joan S KoMisop Han

Abstract

To analyze variability in urologists' Medicare utilization and payment and estimate potential cost savings of standardized service utilization using information from the recently released Medicare Provider Utilization and Payment Data: Physician and Other Supplier Public Use File (PUF) and to highlight potential limitations of PUF analysis. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services just released the PUF with payment or utilization data for 8792 urologists participating in Medicare in 2012. Linear regression correlated total number of patient visits with total Medicare payments to each urologist. Physicians were categorized into quartiles by actual payment in excess of predicted payment modeled by this regression. Utilization variability was calculated as a relative risk for the 40 most highly reimbursed services per patient visit, comparing the highest vs lowest quartile of urologists. Potential cost savings for those 40 services were calculated if services per visit >50% above the median were eliminated. Medicare reimbursement was strongly predicted by the number of patient visits (R(2) = 0.70). Utilization variability of services performed per visit had a relative risk up to 3.52. The potential cost savings was $125,199,...Continue Reading

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