Cost savings and physician responses to global bundled payments for Medicare Heart Bypass Surgery

Health Care Financing Review

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 41-57

  Cromwell, Jerry ^a   Dayhoff, Debra A ^b   Thoumaian, Armen H ^b  

^a Health Economics Research Inc   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BYPASS SURGERY; COST CONTROL; DIAGNOSIS RELATED GROUP; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; HEALTH CARE FINANCING; HOSPITAL; MEDICARE; PHYSICIAN;

AGED; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; COST SAVINGS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITAL COSTS; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MEDICARE; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PILOT PROJECTS; RATE SETTING AND REVIEW; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031447806     PISSN: 01958631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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