Boston-based Johns Hopkins researchers included data from 429,273 physicians spanning 54 medical specialties. Across individual physicians, physician charge-to Medicare payment ratios ranged between 1.0 and 101.1, with a median of 2.5.
Here are six specialties with the highest median of physician charge-to-Medicare payment ratios.
1. Anesthesiology: 5.8
2. Interventional radiology: 4.5
3. Emergency medicine: 4.0
4. Pathology: 4.0
5. Neurosurgery: 4.0
6. Diagnostics radiology: 3.8
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