The Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Initiative.
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The Affordable Care Act enters its fifth year firmly entrenched in our national consciousness. One method that has entered the vernacular for achieving cost savings is accountable care. There are other approaches that are less well known. The Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Initiative has the potential to significantly impact neurointerventionalists. We review that initiative here.
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Bundled Payments for Care Improvement
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of neurointerventional surgery
دوره 8 5 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2016