CNN Healthcare March 11, 2013 07:55:00
>> the cleveland clinic was founded by four in addition physicians and realize they did better working as a team than individual practitioners and formed a group practice. they decided that they would pay themselves a salary and the money left over would go back into growing the organization. that model continued to this day. we are all salaried so the decision on what we do is dependent on what the patient needs and not on financial incentives. six years ago before i became ceo, i thought i never looked after a healthy person. maybe it would be easier to take care of people and keep them from...
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