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Analyzing Trends in Urethral Suspension Procedures After Changes in Medicare Payment Policy
Avinash Maganty1, Brent K Hollenbeck1
1Dow Division of Health Services Research, Department of Urology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
JAMA Network Open
|October 4, 2022
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