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Bending the cost curve

Health care moves away from the fee-for-service payment system that experts say is to blame for the U.S.'s escalating health care costs

In what could be the beginning of a radical shift in the health care system, health insurers are experimenting with changing the way doctors, hospitals and other health care providers get paid.

There has been little attention paid to this shift, perhaps because efforts are, for the most part,....

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