A fallback version would make insurers prove upcoding, notify physicians and limit downcoding to 90 days.
|Articles|January 23, 2009
CCE Dermatology: UCSF by the numbers
The numbers behind UCSF's Department of Dermatology
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The following data were evaluated to determine the University of California, San Francisco’s standing as a Clinical Center of Excellence for dermatology:
27 -- Faculty
60,000 -- Dermatology visits
80,000 -- Dermatopathology consultations annually from throughout the United States
1,500 -- Mohs procedures
106 -- Faculty publications annually
$2.6 million -- NIH funding (2007)
20 -- NIH research grants
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