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Clarifying concurrent care.

D L Olmstead
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Pennsylvania Blue Shield's concurrent care policy for both the Medicare program and its private business is the source of much confusion and exasperation among physicians, especially with regard to medical-medical concurrent care. This article seeks to clarify the process for better understanding by physicians.

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D L Olmstead. 1992. Clarifying concurrent care.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1408263/

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