Last week, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a beta version of a new interactive website that allows user to view variations in Medicare spending data stratified by state.
NPR's Shots blog reports that, "The dashboard shows the number and total cost of payments to hospitals for treating 25 top diagnoses and allows you to compare spending by state. Joint replacements lead the list with more than 400,000 performed last year. The chart also lists which hospitals were the most frequent providers of care for a given diagnosis. A separate bubble chart illustrates total spending for each state between 2006 and March of this year."
To access the site, click here. This link brings you to the descriptive web page. To launch the tool, click on "Render Dashboard BETA" near the upper-left corner.
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