EPO: Medicare Reimbursement

• Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) has had difficulty in devising Medicare policy for EPO that reimburses providers fairly, yet does not create perverse incentives for either the overuse or underuse of EPO

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Levinsky, Norman G.. The Organization Of Medical Care -- Lessons from the Medicare End Stage Renal Disease Program. [Article] New England Journal of Medicine. 329(19):1395-1399, Nov 4, 1993.