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|April 1, 2004
Who's going to reform healthcare?
The most enduring changes are those that come from the inside. Improvements that arise from outside pressure sometimes fade away once that influence is removed, especially when the changes are hard to make.
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