Benchmark of the Week: Total revenue vs. average payments by specialty
Effective Jun 24, 2010
Published Jun 24, 2010
Summary: This chart compares the average value of services performed by specialties to their overall Medicare revenue based on 2008 CMS claims data, the latest available. NOTE: The dollar values reflect payments from Medicare only, and do not account for patient copays or deductibles. 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 2008, ranging from 37 million claims billed annually (urology) to nearly 344 million claims (hematology/oncology).
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