AHCPR "MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY IMPACT STUDY" REPLACES BREAKTHROUGH COUNCIL IN SENATE LABOR COMMITTEE HEALTH BILL; REPORTS WOULD ASSESS RANGE OF TECHNOLOGIES
Executive Summary
HHS' Agency for Health Care Policy & Research would conduct "medical technology impact studies" assessing the impact of technologies on health care costs, social costs and patient outcomes under a provision added to the Senate Labor Committee's health care reform bill May 18 by committee Chairman Kennedy (D- Mass.).