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<dl><dd>This research was performed under HCFA Cooperative Research Agreement [99]-C-98489/9-08 by the RAND/UCLA/Harvard Center for Health Care Financing Policy Research</dd>
<dd>"August 1993"</dd>
<dd>"DRU-471-HCFA"</dd>
<dd>Includes bibliographical references (p. 39)</dd>
<dd>"Draft report ;</dd>
<dd>"Medicare provides a separate payment to physicians billing as an assistant-at-surgery equal to 16 percent of the primary surgeon's payment. This report... presents a conceptual framework for considering the impact of [this policy] and describes patterns of physicians' billing as assistants-at-surgery. Finally, it presents a plan for studying the feasibility of incorporating payments to assistants for inpatient surgery within Medicare's payment to the hospital."--p. xi</dd>
<dd>Typescript (photocopy)</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Medicare; Physicians' assistants; Operating room technicians</div>
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<dl><dd>Trude, Sally</dd>
<dd>United States. Health Care Financing Administration</dd>
<dd>Rand Corporation</dd></dl></div>
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