Estimating True Resource Costs of Outpatient Care for Medicare Beneficiaries: Standardized Costs versus Medicare Payments and Charges.

John T SchousboeMisti L PaudelBrent C TaylorAllyson M KatsBeth A VirnigKristine E EnsrudBryan E Dowd

Published in: Health services research (2015)

Allowable charges for outpatient utilization in the Carrier file and OP-SAF may be good surrogates for standardized costs that reflect patient medical and surgical acuity.

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