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Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care

Posted May 26th, 2006 by Tara Murray in Health Care Policy

According to the newly-released Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care, about one-third of Medicare spending for the chronically ill is unnecessary and making improvements to care could lower costs. For more, see the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation news release.

Update: Also see the AP news story (Washington Post, May 16, 2006).

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