The resource-based relative value scale in vascular surgery. A report of the activities of the Joint Council of the Society for Vascular Surgery and the North American Chapter of the International Society for Cardiovascular Surgery in Medicare reimbursement reform.

J Vasc Surg

Joint Council of the Society for Vascular Surgery and International Society for Cardiovascular Surgery, North American Chapter, and Abt Associates Inc., Cambridge, Mass.

Published: October 1993

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