Academic medical centers and managed care plans: can an association be mutually beneficial?
The history of collaborative and mutually beneficial associations between academic medical centers and managed care plans is not one of sterling successes, according to author Wilson Graves, M.A., M.P.A. Still, there are major trends developing which, despite the antithetical nature of medical academia and managed care, provide a rationale for mutually beneficial associations.
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Kansas University Internal Medicine Foundation, Kansas City 66103.
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