"Of the many 'firsts' with which I have been involved at the Texas Heart Institute â€”including the first successful human heart transplant in the United States and the first total artificial heart transplant in the worldâ€”the achievement that may have the greatest impact on health care did not occur in the operating room or in the research laboratory. It happened on a piece of paper... when we created the first-ever packaged pricing plan for cardiovascular surgical procedures."

-- Denton Cooley

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