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Treatment of embolic stroke as a medical emergency. Implications in a managed care environment
1Department of Radiology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA.
Neurosurgery Clinics of North America
|April 1, 1997
Abstract:
Encouraging innovations should be a concern of the providers/gatekeepers of health-care if lower health-care costs are to become a reality. Controlled prices and improper incentives will dramatically slow innovation in American medicine. For the vertically integrated health-care system providing capitated coverage, the aggressive treatment of stroke is a sound financial decision.