Cost-effectiveness analysis in the courts: recent trends and future prospects

Article Abstract:

The authors discuss how managed care organizations might incorporate cost-effectiveness analysis and cost-containment in their decision-making. Possible judicial responses to cost-effective measures by MCOs are analyzed.

Usage, Cost benefit analysis

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The use of evidence and cost effectiveness by the courts: How can it help improve health care?

Article Abstract:

The author discusses problems of complexity and inconsistence in the legal system's approach to the use of evidence in health care litigation. The assumptions behind the courts' approach to evidence, and possible improvements in the approach, are analyzed.

Clinical medicine

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Regulating health care: from self-regulation to self-regulation?

Article Abstract:

The market and nonmarket responses which have arisen since Kenneth J Arrow's article in 1963 to fill the optimality gap are identified. What used to be called physician self-regulation is now health care system self-regulation through private accreditation.

Management, Health care industry, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Arrow, Kenneth J.

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