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K Fitzner

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Cost-effectiveness and coverage policy.

Cost-effectiveness analyses have become a pervasive element of health care. But they have not had a major impact on medical coverage policy. The challenge of implementing cost-effectiveness as a medical coverage criterion is related to the following issues: (1) Contract language does not include cost-effectiveness as a coverage criterion; (2) cost-effectiveness analyses often take the societal, population-based perspective, while health care is delivered on an individual basis; (3) there is no standard methodology for cost-effective analysis; (4) there is no explicit cut-off between cost-effective and cost-ineffective; and (5) cost-effectiveness analyses are not time sensitive.

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