The Need to Incorporate Additional Patient Information into Risk Adjustment for Medicare Beneficiaries

Kenton J. Johnston; Julie P.W. Bynum; Karen E. Joynt Maddox

doi:10.1001/jama.2019.22370

The Need to Incorporate Additional Patient Information into Risk Adjustment for Medicare Beneficiaries

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Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	925-926
Number of pages	2
Journal	JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association
Volume	323
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2019.22370
State	Published - Mar 10 2020

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