JAMDA
Volume 7, Issue 5 , Pages 328-333 , June 2006

Pay for Performance Means Compliance-Based Care

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 Adapted from an October 2005 Heritage Foundation paper by Richard Dolinar, MD, a Senior Fellow in Health Care Policy at the Heartland Institute, and S. Luke Leininger, a former Health Policy Fellow in the Center for Health Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation.

PII: S1525-8610(06)00182-4

doi: 10.1016/j.jamda.2006.04.002

JAMDA
Volume 7, Issue 5 , Pages 328-333 , June 2006

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