Pay-for-performance - Financial health disparities and the impact on healthcare disparities

Journal of the National Medical Association

Volumn 99, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 953-958

  Hood, Rodney G ^a,b,c  

^a W Montague Cobb/NMA Health Institute   (United States)

^b Multicultural IPA   (United States)

^c Careview Medical Group   (United States)

Author keywords

Health insurance; Race ethnicity

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; ETHNICITY; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; MEDICAID; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MEDICARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REIMBURSEMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS;

CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEE-FOR-SERVICE PLANS; HEALTH CARE REFORM; HUMANS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; REIMBURSEMENT, INCENTIVE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34547861306     PISSN: 00279684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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