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Medicare : lack of price transparency may hamper hospitals' ability to be prudent purchasers of implantable medical devices : report to the Chairman, Committee on Finance, U.S. Senate.

Author/creator	United States
Other author	United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance.
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	[Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Govt. Accountability Office, [2012]
Description	1 online resource (ii, 32 p.) : ill.
Supplemental Content	https://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo22173
Subjects	Medicare--Economic aspects. Medical instruments and apparatus--Purchasing. --United States. Medical instruments and apparatus--Prices. --Evaluation.

Portion of title	Lack of price transparency may hamper hospitals' ability to be prudent purchasers of implantable medical devices
Running title	Implantable medical devices
General note	Title from title screen (viewed on Apr. 11, 2012).
General note	"January 2012."
General note	"GAO-12-126."
General note	GPO Cataloging Record Distribution Program (CRDP).
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references.
Technical rpt number	GAO-12-126
GPO item number	0546-D (online)
Govt. docs number	GA 1.13:GAO-12-126

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