Caring for High-Need, High-Cost Patients - An Urgent Priority.

N Engl J Med

From the Commonwealth Fund (D.B.), the John A. Hartford Foundation (T.F.), and the Peterson Center on Healthcare (J.S.) - all in New York; the SCAN Foundation, Long Beach, CA (B.C.); and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, NJ (J.L.).

Published: September 2016

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