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Health Care Manag
; 2(1): 221-35, 1995 Oct.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-10165637
ABSTRACT
Rising expenditures on health care in the U.S. have been facilitated by the fundamental problems of asymmetric information and insurance-induced moral hazard. If managed care is to succeed, it must take both into account through strategies such as information-based consumer education and provider risk-sharing. Because larger networks offer significant advantages in implementing such strategies, hospital mergers, physician-hospital alliances, and economies of scale are major trends in the evolution of managed care.