This is not to say that fully vertical systems are a panacea: they of course have their own drawbacks. For one, they limit patient choices (because your insurance dictates a narrow range of providers that you can see). However, value-based care contracts that create only a partial alignment between payers with providers contain many of the same dra... See more
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