Medicare Drugs and You: Exploring ProPublica’s Prescriber Checkup

ProPublica reporter Charles Ornstein explains how to search for your doctor or healthcare provider in Medicare's prescription drug program to see what drugs they prescribed in 2010.
+ more on why this prescribing data is so important:
+ our full investigation, The Prescribers:

Medicare Drugs and You: Exploring ProPublica's Prescriber Checkup

3 thoughts on “Medicare Drugs and You: Exploring ProPublica’s Prescriber Checkup

  1. Curious how your doctor’s prescribing practices compare to his/her peers? +
    ProPublica reporter +Charles Ornstein explains how to search our Prescriber
    Checkup app for your doctor or healthcare provider in Medicare’s
    prescription drug program.

    + more on why this prescribing data is so important: http://bit.ly/149NwtM
    + our full investigation, The Prescribers: http://bit.ly/17iIYzy

  2. Useful, but one should ask: am I on Medicare part D? or Am I in the
    same population cohort as Medicare Part D?

    It would also be helpful to see what portion of the prescriber’s population
    is Medicare Part D? If that is a small portion of his/her overall
    population, one should not conclude that what is listed on this site can be
    characteristic of all of this prescriber’s population

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