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Estimating lost revenue from a free-care mandate in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

Smith MW, Chow A, Kimerling R. Estimating lost revenue from a free-care mandate in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.). 2010 Nov 1; 61(11):1150-2.

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Abstract:

Administrative data are readily available to estimate the cost of a VA mandate for free care. The case of military sexual trauma shows that the forgone revenue may be small even when the number of free encounters is very large.




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