Disparities in payment across sites encourage consolidation

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Editorial

Michael E Chernew. Health Serv Res. 2021 Feb.

. 2021 Feb;56(1):5-6.

doi: 10.1111/1475-6773.13612.

¹ Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

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Hospital-physician integration and Medicare's site-based outpatient payments.
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