Risk Adjustment for the Medicare program: lessons learned from research and demonstrations.

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Published in Inquiry on January 01, 1998

Authors

L M Greenwald1, A Esposito, M J Ingber, J M Levy

Author Affiliations

1: Division of Payment Research, Research and Evaluation Group, Baltimore, MD 21244, USA.

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