Medicare Risk-Sharing Contracts: A More Feasible Drug Cost Solution?
Executive Summary
Duke’s Mark McClellan made a strong pitch for such contracting during a Capitol Hill debate on cost control with Johns Hopkins’ Gerard Anderson.
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