An anonymous West Coast community teaching hospital in the US had for many years failed to negotiate successfully with its orthopaedic surgeons to reduce the number of vendors and prostheses used in joint replacement surgery. To make matters worse the vendors by-passed hospital executives to work directly with surgeons, and the hospital had to pay the difference between the cost of the implant and the Medicare payment. The hospital used its Medical Advisory Panel (MAP) to facilitate a structured...
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