relation to health technology assessment. We also describe how a selection of countries (England, France, Italy, Spain and … Japan) take account of innovation in their health technology assessment frameworks and explore the key methodologies that … can capture it as a dimension of value in a new health technology. We propose a way of coming to, and incorporating into …

We study the effects of "balance billing", i.e., allowing physicians to charge a fee from patients in addition to the …

-surgical treatment and the availability of primary care and specialty physicians. We used Symmetry’s Episode Treatment Groups (ETG … and higher cost per episode for all three conditions, while greater availability of primary care physicians is … for surgical vs. non-surgical treatments and the availability of both primary care physicians and relevant specialists are …

use for Medicare patients among practice providers, relative to physicians in practices without MRI capacity over the same …

Background: Physicians' financial interests might conflict with the best service to patients. It is essential to gain a … observed that physicians customized their care in response to the payment system. FFS patients received considerably more … medical care than did CAP patients with the same illness and treatment preference. Physicians over-served FFS patients and …

Objective By manipulating patients' critical attitude in a video experiment, we examined whether physicians are more … neutral questions and expressions). We asked the physicians about the care they would administer in the presented cases and … discover diferential treatment styles driven by physicians' perceived liability risk among patients with a diferent critical …

reflect low generic prices, and the use of health technology assessment or commercial arrangements to inform pricing of new …

Background: Decision-analytic modelling (DAM) has become a widespread method in health technology assessments (HTA …