Effect of medicare reimbursement reduction for imaging services on osteoporosis screening rates

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 511-516

  McAdam Marx, Carrie ^a   Unni, Sudhir ^a   Ye, Xiangyang ^a   Nelson, Scott ^a   Nickman, Nancy A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

bone mineral density; Medicare reimbursement; osteoporosis

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICARE; OSTEOPOROSIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REIMBURSEMENT;

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE DENSITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MEDICARE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOPOROSIS, POSTMENOPAUSAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84858334380     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2011.03837.x     Document Type: Article

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