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Employers and health care providers are forming a partnership in an attempt to control costs and improve the quality of health care in the next decade. Those employers dissatisfied with the cost-containment results of national managed care networks negotiated by third parties are increasingly negotiating directly with health care providers to create custom health care plans for large concentrations of employees. A survey conducted by Witt Associates found that nearly half of the responding government and nonprofit hospitals with more than 500 beds had such direct contracts. For example, General Motors Corp. (GM) turned to health care contracting in 1988 after its total self-insured health care bill reached $3 billion. GM's Thomas J. Morr said the company analyzed utilization, developed targets on desired levels of appropriate care, and established direct contracts with those facilities that met the criteria.
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