Managed health care: managed costs?
With the highest health care costs per capita in the world and after nearly two decades of inexorable increases in health insurance premiums, the promise of managed care has been too much for providers to take lightly. It's not too late to define managed health care, however, or too early to begin assessing managed care accomplishments and projecting future developments and challenges.
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