Physician Payment Disparities and Access to Services—a Look Across Specialties

摘要

Counties without a specialist serving Medicare, by type of specialty. This graph maps the locations of all US physicians with any 2015 Medicare payment to the county of their billing. The percentage of the 3142 US counties that lacked a billing physician for each specialty is shown by the bar graph; the total population among those counties is shown by the red dots, connected by lines to facilitate comparisons of levels. Specialties were divided into lower paid and higher paid cohorts based on the Medscape Physician Compensation Report, 2015. Superscript letter “a” indicates data from Medicare Provider Utilization and Payment Data: Physician and Other Supplier, 2015. Superscript letter “b” indicates data from US Census Bureau Population Division, Annual Estimates of the Resident Population: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2016. Figure 1 contains of poor quality of text.Do you want another version sent? I can have Sara send this