Medical Inspection – Health Blog

David’s idea, in a nutshell, is as follows: “Any new prescription drug program should incorporate mechanisms to inform Congress and the public about the benefits or harms associated with the program and create incentives to prescription drug plans, providers, and consumers to make effective use of the new benefit.”2 Under this new Medicare drug benefit [...]

By now, most readers of P&T are familiar with the series of recent reports from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) that are encouraging health care organizations and purchasers to implement policies that would enable health care to become more “safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable.” These Washington-based policy makers from the IOM have exhorted [...]