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This dataset shows total 2023 allowed charges under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule by specialty type and by Berenson-Eggers Type of Service (BETOS) codes. Allowed charges includes amounts billed by physicians and other health professionals under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, plus any cost-sharing paid by the beneficiary. The Fee Schedule pays for professional services only, not any facility, laboratory, or other fees.
These data were developed using the Physician Supplier Procedure Summary File (PSPS) 2023 and the Revised BETOS Classification System (RCBS). The coding classification system and specialty groupings were developed by Robert A. Berenson and Mary Jo Braid-Forbes. For details on data construction, see https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/102393/development-and-structure-of-betos-2-0-with-illustrative-data_1.pdf
Dataset Info
- Modified 2026-06-22
- Release Date 2026-06-22
- Temporal Coverage
- License odc-by
- Granularity
- Contact Name Urban Institute
- Contact Email [email protected]
- Public Access Level public
Urban Extended Info
- Modified 2026-06-22
- Release Date 2026-06-22
- Geographic Level
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Data Value
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Data Quality
Data include only allowed charges for provider services paid for under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, not any facility, laboratory, or other fees.
- Urban Publications
- Citation Requirements Urban Institute. 2026. Medicare Allowed Charges under the Physician Fee Schedule by Revised BETOS Classification System and Specialty Type, 2023. Accessible from https://datacatalog.urban.org/dataset/medicare-allowed-charges-under-physician-fee-schedule-revised-betos-classification-system. Data originally sourced from 2023 RBCS classification and Physician Supplier Procedure Summary File (PSPS), developed by the Urban Institute and Braid-Forbes Health Research, LLC, and made available under the ODC-BY 1.0 Attribution License.
