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Comparative Effectiveness Research And Medicare: Kathy Buto’s View


February 2nd, 2011
by Kathy Buto

Editor’s Note: In the October issue of Health Affairs, Steven Pearson and Peter Bach proposed a new Medicare payment model incorporating comparative effectiveness research. Under the model, services offering greater health benefits than an existing alternative would receive cost-based reimbursement, but services offering benefits only comparable to an existing alternative would receive a “reference price” equal to the reimbursement... Read the rest of this entry »

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