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100 Docs Made $610M From Medicare

Data released for first time.

Providers have been crying out that Medicare is squeezing their livelihood, but apparently that isn’t the case for everyone. Data was released after a federal judge ruled that payments from Medicare to providers could be published for the first time. And no wonder the American Medical Association tried to block the release: The data shows that 100 doctors received $610 million between them. Of $77 billion paid to doctors in 2012, one Florida ophthalmologist made $21 million, while dozens made more than $4 million, and $15 billion went to just 2 percent of doctors.

Read it at The New York Times

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