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. 2009 Feb 26;360(9):849-52.
doi: 10.1056/NEJMp0809794.

Slowing the growth of health care costs--lessons from regional variation

Elliott S Fisher  1 , Julie P Bynum, Jonathan S Skinner
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Slowing the growth of health care costs--lessons from regional variation

Elliott S Fisher et al. N Engl J Med. .
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Annual Growth Rates of per Capita Medicare Spending in Five U.S. Hospital-Referral Regions, 1992–2006
Data are in 2006 dollars and were adjusted with the use of the gross domestic product implicit price deflator (from the Economic Report of the President, 2008) and for age, sex, and race. Data are from the Dartmouth Atlas Project.
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Total Reimbursement Rates for Noncapitated Medicare per Enrollee, 2006, and Annual Growth in Medicare Reimbursements, 1992–2006, for the 25 Largest U.S. Hospital-Referral Regions
Data are from the Dartmouth Atlas Project.
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