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The Impact of Medicare on Psychiatry

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.7.910

Medicare is having a tremendous impact on psychiatry and the rest of medicine. The author feels that the restrictions on psychiatric coverage in this law, rather than being a handicap, should serve as a challenge to the profession to modify existing practices and attitudes so that psychiatry can meaningfully cope with the benevolent philosophy of the legislation.

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