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Medicare payment data for spine reimbursement; important but flawed data for evaluating utilization of resources

BACKGROUND: Medicare data showing physician-specific reimbursement for 2012 were recently made public in the mainstream media. Given the ongoing interest in containing healthcare costs, we analyze these data in the context of the delivery of spinal surgery. METHODS: Demographics of 206 leading surge...

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Autores principales:	Menger, Richard P., Wolf, Michael E., Kukreja, Sunil, Sin, Anthony, Nanda, Anil
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015
Materias:	Surgical Neurology International: Spine
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4566303/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26425400 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2152-7806.163963

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