Estimating true resource costs of outpatient care for medicare beneficiaries: Standardized costs versus medicare payments and charges

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Syntex adjuvant formulation 85%
• Medicare 69%
• Ambulatory Care 66%
• Fee-for-Service Plans 43%
• Costs and Cost Analysis 41%
• Outpatients 25%
• Osteoporotic Fractures 19%
• Geriatrics 16%
• Information Storage and Retrieval 15%
• Bone Density 15%
• Health Care Costs 15%
• Linear Models 13%
• Weights and Measures 10%

Social Sciences

• outpatient care 100%
• costs 37%
• fee-for-service 35%
• resources 29%
• geriatrics 15%
• agglomeration area 12%
• utilization 10%
• health care 9%
• regression 8%