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  • Title: Managed care? Not without gatekeepers and capitation.
    Author: Leisure LB.
    Journal: Health Cost Manage; 1988; 5(4):1-7. PubMed ID: 10288558.
    Abstract:
    Absolutely essential to truly managed health care are gatekeeping and capitated financial arrangements with providers, says TPF&C's national practice leader for group benefits consulting. He explains why he believes conventional notions of "managed care" are insufficient and how employers can press insurance carriers to accept (not just share) the financial risks of health coverage, as Cigna has done in a new arrangement with Allied-Signal, Inc.
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