Mr. Ornstein and his colleagues at ProPublica developed the Prescriber Checkup, which lets consumers look up their physicians to see how their prescription behaviors compare to others in the same specialty and state. The application took intensive analysis of Medicare’s drug program data — more than 70 million rows of data on the drugs prescribed by 1.6 million providers in 2011 alone, according to the article.
Based on his experiences with Medicare data and the examples from other media outlets, Mr. Ornstein stated the following seven “takeaways” for how the release of physicians’ Medicare payments may play out.
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