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Article: Payment for drug therapy. (health care technology)
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- Physician Executive
- Article date:
- January 1, 1990
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Payment for Drug Therapy
This regular column of Physician Executive deals with the issues surrounding expanding technology in the delivery of health care services. Although technology is most commonly viewed in terms of equipment and procedures, the growing cost and complexity of drug therapy has made even this technology the target of assessment. The following report details the positions taken by the buyers of health care services on payment for drug therapy.
The 1980s have witnessed a move away from a cost-based health care payment system under which almost everything was paid for to one in which explicit determinations are made about the appropriateness ...