The Reliability of Physician Cost Profiling in Medicare

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Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (U.S.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bibliography.

Health insurance.

Medicare.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Contained In:

ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] [publisher not identified] 2010

Summary:

Includes an introduction (pages 5-7), conclusions and recommendations (pages 48-49), a bibliography (pages 50), and tables and graphs throughout

Report, prepared by Robert L. Houchens (Thom<?xm-deletion_mark author="vhubbard" time="20120504T090859-0500" data="p"?>son Reuters) for MedPAC, examining the reliability of physician cost profiling in Medicare, determining whether the profiling method used in a recent RAND Corporation study, which assessed reliability of physician cost profiles based on costs for a large sample of commercially-insured patients in Massachusetts, would result in estimates of reliability for Medicare samples that were similar to those reported for the commercial sample, and evaluating whether another profiling method might have better reliability

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Microfiche version Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (US) Reliability of Physician Cost Profiling in Medicare 2011-J892-79

Publisher Number:

CMP-2010-MPA-0019

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