Billing for outpatient transplant pharmacy services

American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 144-147

  Maldonado, Angela Q ^a   Seiger, Todd C ^b   Urann, Christina L ^a   McCleary, Jo Ann ^a   Goroski, Angela L ^a   Ojogho, Okechukwu N ^a  

^a SACRED HEART MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambulatory care; Billing; Economics; Nurses; Pharmaceutical services; Pharmacists, hospital; Pharmacy, institutional, hospital; Reimbursement; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITAL BILLING; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NURSING COST; OUTPATIENT CARE; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PHARMACIST; PHARMACY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REIMBURSEMENT;

EID: 84856281431     PISSN: 10792082     EISSN: 15352900     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2146/ajhp110328     Document Type: Article

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