Cost profiles: Should the focus be on individual physicians or physician groups?

Health Affairs

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1532-1538

  Mehrotra, Ateev ^a   Adams, John L ^a   Thomas, J William ^b   McGlynn, Elizabeth A ^a  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GROUP PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; PERFORMANCE; PHYSICIAN; RELIABILITY; UNITED STATES;

COST SAVINGS; GROUP PRACTICE; HUMANS; MASSACHUSETTS; PRIVATE PRACTICE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 77958196208     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 15445208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2009.1091     Document Type: Article

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