title: Building physician alliances for cost containment.
abstract: Many cost containment programs are adversarial to physicians and therefore have limited success. Meaningful alliances with physicians hold the promise of cost containment without compromising quality of care.
mesh_terms: D003363:Cost Control / Q000379:methods*; D004470:Economics, Medical / Q000639:trends*; D004501:Education, Medical; D006279:Health Maintenance Organizations / Q000458:organization & administration; D006759:Hospital-Physician Joint Ventures / Q000458:organization & administration; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians'; D011331:Private Practice / Q000191:economics; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D014481:United States