Article
Changes in Healthcare Spending Attributable to Obesity: Payer- and Service-Specific Estimates
2020-12-04
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<title>Abstract</title> <p><bold><italic>Background</italic></bold><italic>: </italic>National efforts to control US healthcare spending are potentially undermined by changes in patient characteristics, and in particular increases in rates of obesity. The objective of this study was to provide current estimates of the effect of obesity on healthcare spending overall, by service line and by payer using the NIH cla...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 70bce14a-1d02-53e9-b212-0813bf48b843
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-36029/v2
