21.   Armed with this information, physicians could then quickly diagnose the condition and refer patients for appropriate care.

22.   As the only hospital in upper Manhattan, he said Presbyterian could do well and do right by creating an ongoing relationship where doctors could refer patients to them.

23.   At its weekly meetings, a Hahnemann committee has been referring patients who are ineligible for heart transplants for consideration as AbioCor recipients, Samuels said.

24.   At the same time, the managed care companies have contracts with selected psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers to whom they refer patients.

25.   Baldwin said the state will tell ComCare employees that they can go ahead and refer patients to mental-health providers.

26.   Before he came out within the profession, he says, many patients were referred to him by straight colleagues.

27.   Bonus plans, for example, reward physicians for not referring patients to specialists, not sending them to the hospital and not ordering expensive tests.

28.   Boosting market share lets companies like HealthSouth increase their bargaining power with the cost-conscious managed health-care companies that refer patients to them.

29.   Bornstein said that in most cases he refers patients who suffer from depression to psychologists or psychiatrists.

30.   A chronic-pain specialist refers patients to a herbal practitioner as readily as he does to an internist.