Bay Area Eye Doctors Receive Some of the Highest Medicare Reimbursements in U.S.

Medicare reimburses doctors different rates versus other kinds of insurance and until recently, it wasn’t clear how much taxpayers were paying for various procedures. Now that the federal government has made Medicare reimbursement data available, the NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit learned among physician specialists, ophthalmologists topped the list of reimbursements from Medicare with an aggregate of $6.1 billion, ahead of cardiologists ($4.9 billion) and oncologists ($4.5 billion), according to the federal data for 2013.