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In the article titled "Potentially Avoidable Emergency Department Use: When Policy Expects Patients to Be Doctors,"1 we discussed the challenges of appropriately treating patients with acute care needs and the concerns with restricting access related to "potentially avoidable" emergency department (ED) use. We first described the current health policy context and then highlighted a promising strategy from a collaboration between payers and providers for bariatric surgery patients.

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