Newly released Medicare billing data show total payments to more than 880,000 medical providers in 2012, totaling $77 billion. Search the database by provider name, specialty and location to see the types and number of procedures performed and the amounts paid to each provider by Medicare. (Related article.)

Here is the Wall Street’s new searchable database.  Type in a specialty and/or name, and get total Medicare payments to any provider.

http://projects.wsj.com/medicarebilling/?mod=medicarein

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Since the database came out, here’s a new headline

Lawyers start mining the Medicare data for clues to fraud