Table of Contents:
  • Setting the stage
  • Introduction / Gerald D. Laubach, Annetine C. Gelijns, Holly V. Dawkins
  • Nature of technological change: incentives matter! / Burton A. Weisbrod
  • Impact of technology assessment on decisions by health care providers and payers / Bryan R. Luce, Ruth E. Brown
  • Provider decisionmaking
  • Role of the hospital in the acquisition of technology / Gerard F. Anderson, Earl P. Steinberg
  • Physicians' decision regarding the acquisition of technology / A. Mark Fendrick, J. Sanford Schwartz
  • Third party payer coverage decisions
  • Decisionmaking in the health care.
  • Technology Assessment, Biomedical financing administration / Kathleen A. Buto
  • Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association initiatives in technology assessment / Susan Gleeson
  • Kaiser Permanente's new technology committee: coverage decisionmaking in a group model health maintenance organization / Paul D. Lairson
  • Autologous bone marrow transplantation: a microcosm of the U.S. health care system / William T. McGivney
  • Technology assessment, benefit coverage and the courts / Lee N. Newcomer.