title: Organizing for the 'second curve': combining health plans and provider systems.
abstract: Provider systems should ask four questions as they seek to incorporate health plans. Is the health plan on track to build critical mass quickly enough? Does the plan balance provider and health plan business priorities? Is the provider system willing to let its health plan compete freely in the market? Is the provider system's overall vision understood and backed internally?
authors.forename: Bill
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Eggbeer
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hauser
authors.forename: Steven
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Johnson
mesh_terms: D004465:Economic Competition; D006268:Health Facilities; D007348:Insurance, Health; D018511:Systems Integration; D014481:United States