Economic factors affecting head and neck reconstructive microsurgery: The surgeons' and hospital's perspective

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 157-165

  Deleyiannis, Frederic W B ^a   Porter, Andrew C ^a  

^a Scaife Hall ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCOUNTING; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; INSURANCE; MEDICARE; MICROVASCULAR SURGERY; PHYSICIAN; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REIMBURSEMENT;

COHORT STUDIES; COST ALLOCATION; COST SAVINGS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CURRENT PROCEDURAL TERMINOLOGY; DIAGNOSIS-RELATED GROUPS; FEE SCHEDULES; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HOSPITAL COSTS; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICARE PART A; MEDICARE PART B; MICROSURGERY; PROSPECTIVE PAYMENT SYSTEM; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34250729695     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000263535.82260.f1     Document Type: Article

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