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Ryan Quoted in Plain Dealer on Medicare Billing Data

On Friday, Apr. 11, 2014, The Center for Health Affairs' President and CEO Bill Ryan was quoted in a Plain Dealer piece on Medicare billing data. 

In the piece, "What the new Medicare billing data show (and where to learn much more)," Ryan commented on data released by the government this week showing how much money it paid in 2012 to doctors and others who treat Medicare patients.

"You may be able to see if your physician did x number of procedures, and you can see if your doctor sees a lot of Medicare cases, but I'm not sure that tells you anything," he said. "You don't get any real value out of it from that perspective."

Click to read the Plain Dealer's full story on Medicare billing data.