Estimating the costs of VA ambulatory care

Medical Care Research and Review

Volumn 60, Issue 3 SUPPL., 2003, Pages

  Phibbs, Ciaran S ^a,b   Bhandari, Aman ^c   Yu, Wei ^a,b   Barnett, Paul G ^a,b  

^a VA Cooperative Studies Program   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost; Medicare; Microcost; Outpatient; Price; Reimbursement; VA; Veterans

Indexed keywords

AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; BUDGET; COST UTILITY ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HOSPITAL BILLING; HUMAN; MEDICARE; OUTPATIENT CARE; PROSPECTIVE PAYMENT; REIMBURSEMENT; SOLDIER; CHEMICAL BINDING; NOMENCLATURE; VETERAN;

EID: 0043244857     PISSN: 10775587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1077558703256725     Document Type: Article

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