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US Physician Costs

Conceptual and Methodological Issues and Selected Applications

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Cardiovascular Health Care Economics

Part of the book series: Contemporary Cardiology ((CONCARD))

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Abstract

Health care costs are an essential component of any economic evaluation and, ultimately, any thorough analysis of health services requires an economic evaluation. Because approximately 70% of all health care costs are directly or indirectly controlled or influenced by physicians’ decisions (1), it is important that physician influence and cost activities in health outcomes research be taken into account. Yet, many research studies fail to take physician services into account because they are difficult to capture, or when physician services are compared to hospital services, they represent such a minor portion of the overall cost, they are not included.

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  1. Division of Cardiology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA

    William S. Weintraub MD

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Becker, E.R. (2003). US Physician Costs. In: Weintraub, W.S. (eds) Cardiovascular Health Care Economics. Contemporary Cardiology. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-398-9_4

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