Managed care.

Abstract

Health-care reform has become a national mandate. Managed care and managed competition have been reinforced by the Clinton health-care reform plan. What type of health-care delivery system can laboratory managers expect to be part of in the near future? We asked laboratory managers who are currently involved in those types of systems. The result is a two-part As We See It. In part one, we will cover physician partnerships and the system laboratory as we ask: What can the laboratory community expect from a managed-care environment?