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This chapter provides an overview of payment methods used in health care in general, expanding on those that have been adopted for pharmaceutical care . A critique is made for the different approaches, while recognizing some particularities of pharmaceutical care provision that would suggest different and new methods need development. The chapter finalizes with a proposed model of payment for pharmaceutical care .
The original version of this chapter was revised: The affiliation of editor, Professor Filipa Alves da Costa has been updated. The erratum to this chapter is available at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92576-9_41
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02 November 2018
Correction to: F. Alves da Costa et al. (eds.), The Pharmacist Guide to Implementing Pharmaceutical Care, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92576-9 The original version of the book was published with the affiliation “Ordem dos Farmacêuticos (Portuguese Pharmaceutical Society), Lisbon, Portugal” of the editor, Professor “Filipa Alves da Costa” in the frontmatter and in chapters 5, 14, 35, 37 and 38, which has now been changed to “Instituto Universitário Egas Moniz (IUEM), Monte da Caparica, Portugal”.
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Alves da Costa, F., Kos, M. (2019). Payment Methods and Pharmaceutical Care. In: Alves da Costa, F., van Mil, J., Alvarez-Risco, A. (eds) The Pharmacist Guide to Implementing Pharmaceutical Care. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92576-9_35
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