Open AccessGeographic Variation in Medicare Services
Author(s) -
Joseph P. Newhouse,
Alan M. Garber
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
new england journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 19.889
H-Index - 1030
eISSN - 1533-4406
pISSN - 0028-4793
DOI - 10.1056/nejmp1302981
Subject(s) - medicine , geographic variation , variation (astronomy) , referral , download , regional variation , payment , demography , family medicine , environmental health , business , finance , population , physics , sociology , astrophysics , computer science , advertising , operating system
An IOM committee report on geographic variation in Medicare spending and the advisability of value-adjusted payments shows that most of the variation is due to the use of post–acute-care and inpatient services and that provider behavior varies substantially within areas.
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