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Ann Surg. 2020 Jun;271(6):994-995. doi: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000003911.

Perpetuation of Inequity: Disproportionate Penalties to Minority-serving and Safety-net Hospitals Under Another Medicare Value-based Payment Model.

Annals of surgery

Andrew P Loehrer, Thomas C Tsai

Affiliations

  1. Department of Surgical Oncology, Houston, TX.
  2. Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA.

PMID: 32398611 DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000003911

[No abstract available.]

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