Managed Care and the Evaluation and Adoption of Emerging Medical Technologies: 1195 (Conference Proceedings) - Softcover

Garber, Steven

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0833028316 ISBN 13: 9780833028310

Publisher: RAND Corporation, 2000

Synopsis

New medical technologiespharmaceuticals, medical devices, and proceduresoften allow great improvements in the outcomes of medical care, but they are also widely believed to be a major cause of increasing costs. Selective adoption of new technologies is crucial in the quest to control health care costs while preserving or enhancing the quality of care.

About this title

About the Author

Steven Garber (Ph.D. (Economics) University of Wisconsin, Madison, August 1976) is a senior economist, Rand. Susan Ridgely (J.D., 1995, University of Maryland School of Law) is a CoInvestigator, UCLA/RAND Research Center on Managed Care and Psychiatric Disorders and a CoInvestigator, Rand Drug Policy Research Center.

Synopsis

This guide exmaines the adoption of innovative medical techniques by managed care organization (MCOs). The authors discuss how the MCO's make medical-necessity and payment decisions involving these technologies and the ways in which this process could be improved.

Edition details

• Publisher: RAND Corporation
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0833028316
• ISBN 13: 9780833028310
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 88