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. 2021 Sep;36(9):2796-2802.
doi: 10.1007/s11606-021-06728-2. Epub 2021 Mar 29.

Primary Care Practices Providing a Broader Range of Services Have Lower Medicare Expenditures and Emergency Department Utilization

Eugene C Rich  1 , Ann S O'Malley  2 , Claire Burkhart  3 , Lisa Shang  2 , Arkadipta Ghosh  3 , Matthew J Niedzwiecki  4
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Primary Care Practices Providing a Broader Range of Services Have Lower Medicare Expenditures and Emergency Department Utilization

Eugene C Rich et al. J Gen Intern Med. 2021 Sep.
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The authors declare that they do not have any conflict of interest aside from support on contracts from Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) during the conduct of the study.

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