The purpose of this article was to analyze the managerial experience of the Inter-municipal Consortium of Health of Pernambuco's Sertão do Araripe (Cisape). To do it, we used a qualitative research of document analysis. The documents analyzed were reports produced by specialist consultants, involved in the implementation of regionalized and consortium management of the Unified Health System (SUS) in Pernambuco from 2009 to 2010. The results indicate that Cisape adopted the model of managerial management, ie, driven by the post-bureaucratic public management. The organizational structure of Cisape was defined as Public Law of autarchic nature. The research identified that, in Pernambuco, Cisape has been set as an important tool to encourage SUS' regionalization, but with incipient social participation.
management in health; public consortia; health policy; management; regionalization of SUS
