title: Unexplained clinical variance: are health plans (partly) responsible?
abstract: More research is needed to determine if health plan decision making is contributing to clinical variance in health care. But an informal survey shows it is.
authors.affiliation: Oregon Health Sciences University, USA. mpatmas@clearchoicehp.com
authors.forename: Michael A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Patmas
mesh_terms: D020793:Gatekeeping; D006801:Humans; D007348:Insurance, Health; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians'; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative; D014481:United States