Medicare fees and the volume of physicians' services.
This paper estimates the relationship between Medicare fees and quantities provided by physicians for eight specific services. It uses data for 13,707 physicians who responded to surveys in 2000/2001 and/or 2004/2005 and were linked to all Medicare claims for their Medicare patients. Results show th...
| Publicado en: | Inquiry (00469580) Vol. 46; no. 4; pp. 372 - 391 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Winter2009
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