Doctors and Hospitals Work Together to Lower Costs

The New York Times explores the ways that physicians and hospitals have begun working together to reduce the cost of health care. The practice described in the article is called "gainsharing", and it describes a relationship where doctors are financially rewarded when they find ways to save the hospital money. If health care practitioners are rewarded for saving money, will the quality of patient care suffer? I think the jury's still out on that one - this is an important issue to keep an eye on.