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AMCP Nexus 2021: Aimee Loucks, Pharm.D., of Kaiser Permanente Washington Talks Metrics That Can Give Providers an Incentive to Address Disparities
Author(s)Peter Wehrwein
Loucks, manager of specialty clinical pharmacy programs and formulary at Kaiser Permanente Washington, discusses metrics that might give healthcare providers an incentive to address healthcare disparities and concrete steps that could be taken to turn the talk about addressing healthcare disparities into a reality.
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