HealthLeaders Media March 6, 2017
Christopher Cheney

The latest iteration of the tool maps the geographic density of specific healthcare service providers and the number of Medicare beneficiaries using those services.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has unveiled an expanded version of a data tool that features interactive maps for market saturation and utilization of several healthcare services at the national, state and county level.

The Market Saturation and Utilization Data Tool was developed for use by providers to help analyze their service locations and the service utilization rates of Medicare beneficiaries.

CMS uses the data tool’s market saturation and healthcare service utilization information as one means of rooting out fraud and waste in the Medicare program. The tool was formerly called the Moratoria Provider...

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