Managed care and the diffusion of endoscopy in fee-for-service medicare

Health Services Research

Volumn 46, Issue 6 PART 1, 2011, Pages 1905-1927

  Mobley, Lee Rivers ^a   Subramanian, Sujha ^a   Koschinsky, Julia ^b   Frech, H E ^c   Trantham, Laurel Clayton ^d   Anselin, Luc ^b  

^a RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d IL   (United States)

Author keywords

cost effectiveness; Endoscopy utilization; managed care spillovers; Medicare population trends; spatial regression analysis

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COLONOSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIFFUSION; ECOLOGY; FEE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; MALE; MARKET; MEDICARE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; SOCIOECONOMICS;

COLONOSCOPY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION; FEE-FOR-SERVICE PLANS; HUMANS; MANAGED CARE PROGRAMS; MEDICARE; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 81755188043     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2011.01301.x     Document Type: Article

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