Stanford Health Care’s Janjri Desai, Pharm.D., says pharmacists improve outcomes but often can’t bill for it, making billing parity key to growing services.
|Articles|August 1, 2004
August DTR Analysis: Medicare sees growth
The Medicare health plan marketplace has stabilized and is poised foranother period of growth, although some experts don't know whether thatgrowth curve will be modest or steep.
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