Medicare payments for common inpatient procedures: Implications for episode-based payment bundling

Health Services Research

Volumn 45, Issue 6 PART 1, 2010, Pages 1783-1795

  Birkmeyer, John D ^a   Gust, Cathryn ^a   Baser, Onur ^a   Dimick, Justin B ^a   Sutherland, Jason M ^c   Skinner, Jonathan S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Dartmouth College   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

bundled payments; Medicare; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL BILLING; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MEDICARE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PHYSICIAN INCOME;

EID: 78449297774     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2010.01150.x     Document Type: Article

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