Cost to primary care practices of responding to payer requests for quality and performance data

Annals of Family Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 495-503

  Halladay, Jacqueline R ^a   Stearns, Sally C ^b   Wroth, Thomas ^c   Spragens, Lynn ^d   Hofstetter, Sara ^b   Zimmerman, Sheryl ^e   Sloane, Philip D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b IL   (United States)

^c Scott Clinic   (United States)

^d Spragens and Associates   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Costs and costs analysis; Medical audit; Primary care; Quality of health care

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMMUNITY CARE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COST; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; NURSE PRACTITIONER; PHYSICIAN; PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 71649113222     PISSN: 15441709     EISSN: 15441717     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1370/afm.1050     Document Type: Article

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