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Narrow Networks Cut Costs, Not Quality, Economists Say.  Not exactly the findings that most managers of provider organizations want to hear. With the rise of the accountable care organization (ACO) phenomenon (see The Current State Of Behavioral Health In ACOs and The ACO Snapshot) and the move by health insurance organizations to risk-based reimbursement (see “Following The Money” In Specialty Care Management), what consumers have in their health plan is less choice, a.k.a. "narrow networks." I wrote about this previously in the piece, Narrow Networks Happening By Design & By Default.

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