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Health Economics | Center for Health Policy | Journal

Saving Medicare Through Patient-centered Changes — The Case of Injectables

April 25, 2013 | Hagop M. Kantarjian
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Hagop M. Kantarjian

Nonresident Fellow in Health Policy

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By Jeffrey S. Farroni, Leonard Zwelling, Jorge Cortes and Hagop Kantarjian

Medicare covers the cost of injectable drugs only when they're administered in a hospital or physician's office, but considerations of convenience, cost, and quality all argue for encouraging patients to participate in their own care by allowing self-administration.

Read the full article in The New England Journal of Medicine.

https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMp1213485
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