Becker's Healthcare February 19, 2025
The number of psychiatrists that submitted claims to Medicare Part B dropped in every state between 2014 and 2022, a recent study found.
The study, published Feb. 6 in JAMA Network Open, used data comprising 291,748,472 Medicare Part B enrollee-years collected by the CDC and Kaiser Family Foundation between Jan. 1, 2014, and Dec. 31, 2022. The data included enrollees in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
Here are four study findings:
1. From 2014 to 2022, the number of enrollees decreased by 10.6%, while the...