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Legal mechanisms supporting accountable care principles

Tara Ramanathan1

  • 1Tara Ramanathan is with the Public Health Law Program in the Office for State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Support at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA.

American Journal of Public Health
|September 12, 2014
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