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Mass. health leaders say they can control costs themselves

By Liz Kowalczyk

 |  Globe Staff  

  November 04, 2011

A group of influential health care executives and academics is finalizing a proposal that would allow Massachusetts hospitals and insurers to try to control rising medical costs on their own for three more years, in an effort to head off more immediate state action. If they don’t succeed, only then could they face possible outside controls. The plan is being developed by the Eastern Massachusetts Healthcare Initiative, which includes the state’s largest hospital and physician networks.

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