Medicare's resource-based relative value scale, a de facto national fee schedule: Its implications and uses for neurologists

Neurology

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 315-320

  Sigsbee, Bruce ^a,b  

^a AMERICAN ACADEMY OF NEUROLOGY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE COST; MEDICAL FEE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REIMBURSEMENT; REVIEW;

EID: 0030765802     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.49.2.315     Document Type: Review

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