Costs of Health Care Administration in the United States and Canada
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- 21 August 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 349 (8) , 768-775
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmsa022033
Abstract
A decade ago, the administrative costs of health care in the United States greatly exceeded those in Canada. We investigated whether the ascendancy of computerization, managed care, and the adoption of more businesslike approaches to health care have decreased administrative costs.Keywords
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