Medicare Letters To Curb Overprescribing Of Controlled Substances Had No Detectable Effect On Providers

Inappropriate prescribing is a rising threat to the health of Medicare beneficiaries and a drain on Medicare’s finances. In this study we used a randomized controlled trial approach to evaluate a low-cost, light-touch intervention aimed at reducing the inappropriate provision of Schedule II controll...

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Main Authors: Sacarny, A., Yokum, D., Agrawal, S., Finkelstein, Amy
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Project Hope 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/105912
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9941-6684