Regional Payment Variation:
MEDPAC CHURNS OUT NEW ANALYSIS OF USE, SPENDING DATA
Published on Thu Oct 24, 2013
Data being developed for the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission’s June report clearly suggest that quality of care tends to be lower in many states where beneficiaries use medical services at a high rate. Commission staff plotted per-beneficiary service use by state — adjusted to remove the influence of cost of services — against ordinal state rankings from a quality-of-care study [...]