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Important Research From Medicare Demonstration Projects: Almost Nothing Works
I will suggest that most of us believe the way to control health care costs, and at the same time maintain or improve quality, is to both use the managed care tools we have developed over the years, and perhaps more importantly, change the payment incentives so that both cost control and quality are upper most in the minds of providers and payers.The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has just released an important review of Medicare's results in testing those ideas. The news is not good.
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