title: Learning by merging. Once adversaries, payers and providers develop new partnerships.
abstract: 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.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Cerne
mesh_terms: D006273:Health Facility Merger / Q000639:trends*; D007343:Insurance Carriers / Q000639:trends*; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009096:Multi-Institutional Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009935:Organizational Affiliation / Q000639:trends; D014481:United States