Anthem Blue Cross has eliminated doctors affiliated with two hospitals, Cedars-Sinai and UCLA, from a health plan offered to about 60,000 employees and dependents at the cash-strapped city of Los Angeles. This shows that even some of the most-respected names in medicine can’t get by on reputation alone at a time when the U.S. is grappling with a $2.6-trillion healthcare bill annually. Major hospitals and medical groups face growing pressure to justify their charges. And employers increasingly are willing to risk the ire of workers by cutting popular providers to clamp down on costs according to recent report in the Los Angeles Times.