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Title
Reduction in physician reimbursement and use of hormone therapy in prostate cancer.
Authors
Elliott, Sean P; Jarosek, Stephanie L; Wilt, Timothy J; Virnig, Beth A
Abstract
Use of androgen suppression therapy (AST) in prostate cancer increased more than threefold from 1991 to 1999. The 2003 Medicare Modernization Act reduced reimbursements for AST by 64% between 2004 and 2005, but the effect of this large reduction on use of AST is unknown.
Publication
Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 2010, Vol 102, Issue 24, p1826