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Article: Research from H.H. Pham and co-authors provides new data about medicare and medicaid.
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- April 8, 2009
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"Primary care physicians are expected to coordinate care for their patients. To assess the number of physician peers providing care to the Medicare patients of a primary care physician," scientists in the United States report (see also Medicare and Medicaid).
"Cross-sectional analysis of claims data. Fee-for-service Medicare in 2005. 2284 primary care physicians who responded to the 2004 to 2005 Community Tracking Study Physician Survey. Primary patients for each physician were defined as beneficiaries for whom the physician billed for more evaluation and management visits than any other physician in 2005. The number of physician peers for each physician was the ...