AcademyHealth: Evidence-based health care coverage decisions … in the US

There’s a federal organization that makes evidence-based, national health care coverage decisions potentially affecting tens of millions of Americans. Its decisions even seem to be related to the presence of cost-effectiveness information (though not the level of cost-effectiveness itself). Can you guess what it is? Check your answer in my new AcademyHealth post.

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Austin Frakt

Austin Frakt, PhD, is co-Editor-in-Chief of The Incidental Economist. His day job is Associate Director of the Partnered Evidence-based Policy Resource Center at the Boston VA Healthcare System, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. He is also a Professor with the Department of Health Law, Policy and Management at the Boston University’s School of Public Health, a Principal Research Scientist with the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Health Services Research.

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