title: The health care battlefront: the enemy is outside.
abstract: As the pressures of managed care and other market forces escalate, physicians and hospitals are becoming bedfellows in the battle to find efficiencies, improve reimbursement, and redesign the way medical care is delivered. The payers have become so onerous that physicians and hospitals are realizing that they are not each other's enemies. The health care industry is at a major crossroads.
authors.forename: K M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Kelly
mesh_terms: D019033:Delivery of Health Care, Integrated; D018166:Health Care Reform; D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D009515:New Jersey; D010820:Physicians