Provider network replaces 'old way' of managed care.
The provider-sponsored Yellowstone Community Health Plan in Billings, MT, has discovered success by breaking many of the traditional rules in setting up a capitated insurance product. Key is to hold all parties accountable and to dissolve historic communication barriers.
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