The Family Doctor: A Remedy for Health-Care Costs?

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Last December the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC), a nonpartisan policy research group in Washington, posted a detailed report on its Web site titled Making Medical Homes Work: Moving from Concept to Practice. While explaining the merits of this idea, the authors also spotlight some challenges. For example, primary-care doctors responsible for making the concept work might have to negotiate service agreements and exchange information with upwards of 200 other physicians attending

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