Regional task force aligns health groups against rising costs

The hospitals, health care associations, HSA, and Blue Cross of Northwest Ohio have formed a task force through which they have conducted successful joint cost containment projects. Some of these projects include a voluntary "cap" on price increases, promotion of hospital cost containment committees, sharing of cost containment ideas for inhospital implementation, educating the public about its role in health care cost control, and communicating with political and business leaders about cost control.