Abstract
Strategic health authorities can learn a lot about strategic vision from Arizona's healthcare cost containment system. The Arizona commissioners have greater power than primary care trusts to push through new and more effective models of community care. Commissioner/provider relations can be fraught as health plans hold out for big discounts.
MeSH terms
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Arizona
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Community Health Planning / economics
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Community Health Planning / organization & administration*
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Cost Control
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Medicaid / organization & administration*
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Medicare / organization & administration*
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Primary Health Care / economics
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Primary Health Care / organization & administration*
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State Health Plans / economics
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State Health Plans / organization & administration*
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State Medicine / organization & administration
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United States