JAMA Study Links Specialty Hospitals To More Cardiac Interventions
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Results of a new study appear to contradict 2005 Medicare Payment Advisory Committee data showing no link between the emergence of cardiac specialty hospitals and an increase in cardiac revascularization procedures
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