Passing The Baton: HMOs' Influence On Referrals To Specialty Care
- 1 November 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Health Affairs (Project Hope) in Health Affairs
- Vol. 16 (6) , 157-162
- https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.16.6.157
Abstract
Self-referral is still a common route to specialty care, despite the invention of the physician gatekeeper.Keywords
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