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A Financial Model for Team-Based Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
Mackenzie Farrar, Zach White, Stephen Hulkower, E. Blake Fagan and Courtenay Gilmore Wilson
The Journal of the American Board of Family
Medicine January 2020, 33 (1) 124-128; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2020.01.190228
Mackenzie Farrar
the Mountain Area Health Education Center (MAHEC), Asheville, NC (MF, ZW, SH); University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Medicine Chapel Hill, NC (SH, EBF, CGW); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Foundation, Atlanta, GA (EBF); UNC Health Sciences at MAHEC Asheville, NC (EBF, CGW); UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, Chapel Hill, NC (CGW).
Zach White
the Mountain Area Health Education Center (MAHEC), Asheville, NC (MF, ZW, SH); University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Medicine Chapel Hill, NC (SH, EBF, CGW); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Foundation, Atlanta, GA (EBF); UNC Health Sciences at MAHEC Asheville, NC (EBF, CGW); UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, Chapel Hill, NC (CGW).
Stephen Hulkower
the Mountain Area Health Education Center (MAHEC), Asheville, NC (MF, ZW, SH); University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Medicine Chapel Hill, NC (SH, EBF, CGW); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Foundation, Atlanta, GA (EBF); UNC Health Sciences at MAHEC Asheville, NC (EBF, CGW); UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, Chapel Hill, NC (CGW).
E. Blake Fagan
the Mountain Area Health Education Center (MAHEC), Asheville, NC (MF, ZW, SH); University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Medicine Chapel Hill, NC (SH, EBF, CGW); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Foundation, Atlanta, GA (EBF); UNC Health Sciences at MAHEC Asheville, NC (EBF, CGW); UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, Chapel Hill, NC (CGW).
Courtenay Gilmore Wilson
the Mountain Area Health Education Center (MAHEC), Asheville, NC (MF, ZW, SH); University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Medicine Chapel Hill, NC (SH, EBF, CGW); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Foundation, Atlanta, GA (EBF); UNC Health Sciences at MAHEC Asheville, NC (EBF, CGW); UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, Chapel Hill, NC (CGW).

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A Financial Model for Team-Based Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
Mackenzie Farrar, Zach White, Stephen Hulkower, E. Blake Fagan, Courtenay Gilmore Wilson
The Journal of the American Board of Family
Medicine Jan 2020, 33 (1) 124-128; DOI: 10.3122/jabfm.2020.01.190228
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