Lying for patients: Physician deception of third-party payers

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 159, Issue 19, 1999, Pages 2263-2270

  Freeman, Victor G ^a,b   Rathore, Saif S ^a,c   Weinfurt, Kevin P ^a,d   Schulman, Kevin A ^a,d   Sulmasy, Daniel P ^d,e  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BETTY AND GUY BEATTY CENTER FOR INTEGRATED RESEARCH   (United States)

^c IL   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; HEALTH INSURANCE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MANAGED CARE; NOSE RECONSTRUCTION; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVASCULARIZATION;

CLINICAL APPROACH/SOURCE; COSMETIC SURGERY; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SURVEY; UNITED STATES;

ANALGESICS; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CONFLICT OF INTEREST; COST CONTROL; DECEPTION; ETHICS, MEDICAL; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INSURANCE, HEALTH, REIMBURSEMENT; MAMMOGRAPHY; MANAGED CARE PROGRAMS; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PHYSICIANS; PSYCHIATRY; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032753859     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.159.19.2263     Document Type: Article

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