Medicare
Subtitle: focus on physician practice patterns can lead to greater program efficiency : report to Congressional committees.
Publisher: United States Government Accountability Office
Published: 2007
Place of publication: [Washington, D.C.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 47
Subjects: Medicare -- Economic aspects; Medical fees -- United States; Medicare -- economics -- United States -- Statistics; Efficiency, Organizational -- United States -- Statistics
Genres: Statistics.
Other titles: Physician efficiency in Medicare
Notes: Cover title.

"April 2007."

"GAO-07-307."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Letter; title: Results in brief; title: Background; title: Physicians who treated a disproportionate share of overly expensive patients were found in each of 12 areas studied; title: Health care purchasers used physician profiling results to encourage efficient medical practice; title: CMS has tools available to profile physicians for efficiency, but may need some additional authorities to use results in ways similar to other purchasers; title: Conclusions; title: Recommendation for executive action; title: Agency and professional association comments and our evaluation; title: Appendix I. Methodology for identifying physicians with a disproportionate share of overly expensive beneficiaries; title: Appendix II. Health care purchaser program characteristics; title: Appendix III. Distribution of physicians by their proportion of overly expensive beneficiaries by metropolitan area; title: Appendix IV. Comments from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services; title: Appendix V GAO contact and staff acknowledgments.