Implications of early health care spending reductions for expected spending as COVID-19 pandemic evolves

What The Study Did:

The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on health care spending in the U.S. has important implications for payers, clinicians, hospitals, health care systems and patients, and has been the subject of much debate.

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J. Michael McWilliams, M.D., Ph.D., of Harvard Medical School in Boston, is the corresponding author.

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