IOM Request Letter

January 18, 2011 On January 18, 2011, the Institute of Medicine (IOM), which is studying geographic variation in health care spending, sent a letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) requesting data. In the letter, the IOM Committee on Geographic Variation in Health Care Spending and Promotion of High-value Care described its work to evaluate factors that may influence geographic variation and growth in per-capita health care spending and the volume and intensity of health care services utilization. In response to the IOM letter, CMS created four datasets (the Datasets) using the new Geographic Variation . . .