Successful collaboration: the Cincinnati initiative.
Private-sector initiatives, like the one launched in Cincinnati, have significantly improved the management of health care programs. The initiatives were made through voluntary hospital and physician practice changes without new contract restrictions, price controls, legislative mandates, and utilization management.
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