Learning by merging. Once adversaries, payers and providers develop new partnerships.
The rapid movement in health care toward the integration of delivery and payment systems reflects both a quickly changing marketplace and the anticipation of reform. The challenge in merging insurance and provider organizations, say those insurers who are doing it, is in the details.
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