Insurance Coverage for Investigational Therapy

Swiss-CHAT: Citizens Discuss Priorities for Swiss Health Insurance Coverage

Background As universal health coverage becomes the norm in many countries, it is important to determine public priorities regarding benefits to include in health insurance coverage. We report results of participation in a decision exercise among residents of Switzerland, a high-income country with a long history of universal health insurance and deliberative democracy.   Methods We adapted the...

Insurance coverage for experimental technologies.

As the number and cost of new technologies grow, it is increasingly important that we develop sound policies for payment for those technologies while their clinical impacts are being defined. Such policies need to balance social interests in promotion of innovation, early access to promising technology, patient safety, control of health care costs, and return on investment. We present a rationa...

Insurance Coverage for E-Commerce

etween February 7 and 9, 2000, many of the Internet's biggest web sites, including Yahoo, eBay, and CNN .com were hit with Directed Denial of Service ("DDoS") attacks that prevented users from reliably accessing data and information. In May 2000, many of the world' s computer systems, including those of the United States ' government and many US businesses, were closed to e-mail traffic to prev...

Investigational treatments: coverage, controversy, and consensus.

Health insurance coverage.

Unlike children in most other economically developed countries, children in the United States are not guaranteed health insurance coverage. Indeed, many U.S. children have no health insurance coverage at all. Their lack of coverage restricts their access to health care services: uninsured children have fewer physician visits per year than children with insurance and are less likely to have a us...