CEO Thomas Glynn said Partners, the largest system in Massachusetts, is trying to cut expenses through better management of care for very sick patients and by freezing some employees’ salaries.
“Do we have a cost problem? Yes,” he said. “Are we working on it? Yes. Are we working on it hard enough? No.”
But Mr. Glynn blamed much of Partners’ higher costs on growing utilization of medical services as well as Medicare and Medicaid shortfalls, which he said account for 18 percent of Partners’ charges to Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts.
Read the Boston Globe’s report on Partners HealthCare.
