Name:   lucky67 - Subject:   social (un-security) ?? Date:   6/1/2015 12:42:50 PM

A small group of doctors accounted for a large chunk of Medicare payments once again, data released today by the U.S. government show.

Medicare paid at least 3,900 individual health-care providers at least $1 million in 2013, according to a Bloomberg analysis of data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Overall, the agency said it released data on $90 billion in payments to 950,000 individual providers and organizations. On average, doctors were reimbursed about $74,000, though five received more than $10 million