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A healthcare system badly out of balance

Call it the ‘Partners Effect:’ Elite hospitals are paid much more for care that is often no better than average. It is the best kept secret in Massachusetts medicine

  November 16, 2008

Elite hospitals are paid much more for care that is often no better than average. It is the best kept secret in Massachusetts medicine.

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