Accountable Care Organizations' Payments to Physicians: Patients Should Have the Right to Know

Mayce Mansour1, Nathan Favini1, Michael A Carome1

  • 1Mayce Mansour is with the Division of General Internal Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY. Nathan Favini is with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program, Department of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles. Michael A. Carome and Sidney Wolfe are with Public Citizen's Health Research Group, Washington, DC. Steffie Woolhandler and David U. Himmelstein are with City University of New York School of Urban Public Health at Hunter College, New York, NY.

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