Successful implementation of Medicare risk contracting.
With the information resources available today, groups can better determine whether they possess the ingredients for success with regard to risk contracting, write Molly Zelley, M.P.A., and Christy Bell. For those that do, Medicare risk contracting can be a vehicle for developing comprehensive, cost-effective new approaches for attracting and providing health care to this increasingly significant segment of the population.
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