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2013
MARKET-BASED Keith Smith, MD, cofounded the Surgery Center of Oklahoma in
1997, certain that free-market competition
could improve quality and reduce prices.
Photos by Bryan Terry
Awards
S p o n s o r e d by
Is Surgery Ready for
Price Transparency?
The doctors who run the Surgery Center of Oklahoma are out to
expose much more than their own prices.
Jim Burger | Associate Editor
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O U T PAT I E N T S U R G E R Y M A G A Z I N E O N L I N E | S E P T E M B E R 2013
