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... The committee recommended that payment mechanisms be changed to provide higher payments for ambulatory services in order to better support primary care residency training and thereby increase the number of primary care physicians. Other Institute studies have identified undesirable and usually unintended inf luences of payment policies on patterns of health care.
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... A conference was held by the IOM in 1978 to explore the payment issues raised in the primary care report with public and private third-party papers, union and industry purchasers of health insurance, physicians, and other providers of health care. See Institute of Medicine, Reimbursement Policies for Primary Health Care,.


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