Tuberculosis Test Usage and Medical Expenditures from Outpatient Insurance Claims Data, 2013
Objective. To evaluate TB test usage and associated direct medical expenditures from 2013 private insurance claims data in the United States (US). Methods. We extracted outpatient claims for TB-specific and nonspecific tests from the 2013 MarketScan® commercial database. We estimated average expendi...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Hindawi Limited
2017-01-01
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| Series: | Tuberculosis Research and Treatment |
| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/3816432 |