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From the Editor

Biotech Drugs Come Of Age; Policymakers Take Notice John K. Iglehart [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Coverage

PROLOGUE: Insurance Coverage Of Biopharmaceuticals [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Insurers’ Strategies For Managing The Use And Cost Of Biopharmaceuticals James C. Robinson [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Coverage Options For Promising Technologies: Medicare’s ‘Coverage With Evidence Development’ Sean R. Tunis and Steven D. Pearson [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Medicare’s Coverage Of Colorectal Cancer Drugs: A Case Study In Evidence Development And Policy Tanisha Carino, Reginald D. Williams, II, Allison M. Colbert, and Perry Bridger [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Erratum] [Reprints & Permissions]

Access To Cancer Drugs In Medicare Part D: Formulary Placement And Beneficiary Cost Sharing In 2006 Jennifer Bowman, Amy Rousseau, David Silk, and Catherine Harrison [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Translating Epoetin Research Into Practice: The Role Of Government And The Use Of Scientific Evidence Dennis Cotter, Mae Thamer, Krishnan Narasimhan, Yi Zhang, and Kim Bullock [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Biotechnology And Medicare’s New Technology Policy: Lessons From Three Case Studies Patricia Seliger Keenan, Peter J. Neumann, and Kathryn A. Phillips [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Evolution & Future

PROLOGUE: Evolution And Future Of Biopharmaceuticals [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Intersection Of Biotechnology And Pharmacogenomics: Health Policy Implications Kathryn A. Phillips [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Linking Pharmacogenetics-Based Diagnostics And Drugs For Personalized Medicine Louis P. Garrison, Jr. and M.J. Finley Austin [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Market For Follow-On Biologics: How Will It Evolve? Henry Grabowski, Iain Cockburn, and Genia Long [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Appendix] [Reprints & Permissions]

The Emerging Market Dynamics Of Targeted Therapeutics John E. Calfee and Elizabeth DuPré [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

How Changes In Drug-Safety Regulations Affect The Way Drug And Biotech Companies Invest In Innovation Shelby D. Reed, Robert M. Califf, and Kevin A. Schulman [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Online Technical Appendix] [Reprints & Permissions]

Specialty Drugs

PROLOGUE: Specialty Drug Management [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Benefit Design And Specialty Drug Use Dana P. Goldman, Geoffrey F. Joyce, Grant Lawless, William H. Crown, and Vincent Willey [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Online Technical Appendix] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health Plans’ Strategies For Managing Outpatient Specialty Pharmaceuticals C. Daniel Mullins, Danielle Chauncey Lavallee, Françoise G. Pradel, Andrea R. DeVries, and Nadine Caputo [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Kaiser Permanente’s Evaluation And Management Of Biotech Drugs: Assessing, Measuring, And Affecting Use C. Douglas Monroe, Lori Potter, Mirta Millares, Anthony Barrueta, and Richard Wagner [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Managing Biotechnology In A Network-Model Health Plan: A U.S. Private Payer Perspective John B. Watkins, Sanchita Roy Choudhury, Ed Wong, and Sean D. Sullivan [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Online Exhibit] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health Tracking

MARKETWATCH: Prices And Availability Of Biopharmaceuticals: An International Comparison Patricia M. Danzon and Michael F. Furukawa [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Appendix Exhibits] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: Market Access For Biopharmaceuticals: New Challenges Françoise Simon [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: How Direct-To-Consumer Television Advertising For Osteoarthritis Drugs Affects Physicians’ Prescribing Behavior W. David Bradford, Andrew N. Kleit, Paul J. Nietert, Terrence Steyer, Thomas McIlwain, and Steven Ornstein [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Online Supplemental Exhibits] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: Teleradiology: A Case Study Of The Economic And Legal Considerations In International Trade In Telemedicine Thomas R. McLean and Edward P. Richards [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: Medicare Payment For Selected Adverse Events: Building The Business Case For Investing In Patient Safety Chunliu Zhan, Bernard Friedman, Andrew Mosso, and Peter Pronovost [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

FROM THE FIELD: Mediating Medical Malpractice Lawsuits Against Hospitals: New York City’s Pilot Project Chris Stern Hyman and Clyde B. Schechter [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Appendix Table] [Reprints & Permissions]

Narrative Matters

Poked And Prodded Again And Again Barbara Clark Ucko [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

My Mother, A Professional Patient Steven A. Wartman [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

DataWatch

The Impact Of Quality-Reporting Programs On Hospital Operations Hoangmai H. Pham, Jennifer Coughlan, and Ann S. O’Malley [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

An Evaluation Of Oregon’s Evidence-Based Practitioner-Managed Prescription Drug Plan Daniel M. Hartung, Kathy L. Ketchum, and Dean G. Haxby [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Appendix] [Reprints & Permissions]

GrantWatch

GrantWatch: Outcomes [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [GrantWatch Online 2 October][GrantWatch Online 16 October][GrantWatch Online 31 October] [Reprints & Permissions]

UpDate

UPDATE: INTERNATIONAL REPORT: Using Pharmacoepidemiology To Inform Drug Coverage Policy: Initial Lessons From A Two-Province Collaborative J. Michael Paterson, Andreas Laupacis, Ken Bassett, Geoffrey M. Anderson for the BC-Ontario Pharmacosurveillance for Decision-Making Collaborative [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Book Reviews

BOOK REVIEWS: Health Policy And Political Will David A. Rochefort [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Strategies And Tactics In The War On Cancer: A Review Richard A. Rettig [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

An Information Prescription For Health Care’s Cognitive-Disorder Problems Tom Miller [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Letters

Malpractice Premiums: Analytic Flaws Arvind Cavale [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

More On Premiums And Practice Dennis Brown [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Yes, Yes, And Moving On John T. Bakos [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Malpractice Premiums: The Authors Respond Marc A. Rodwin [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Medical Tourism Percivil M. Carrera [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Why Indian Physicians Emigrate Prakash, Latha Venkatraya Prabhu, and Gajendra Singh [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Errata

Erratum [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Web Exclusives

What Accounts For Differences In The Use Of Hospital Emergency Departments Across U.S. Communities? Peter J. Cunningham (published online 18 July 2006) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

MARKETWATCH: Specialty-Service Lines: Salvos In The New Medical Arms Race Robert A. Berenson, Thomas Bodenheimer, and Hoangmai H. Pham (published online 25 July 2006) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Who Failed To Enroll In Medicare Part D, And Why? Early Results Florian Heiss, Daniel McFadden, and Joachim Winter (published online 1 August 2006) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Geographic Variation In The Appropriate Use Of Cesarean Delivery Katherine Baicker, Kasey S. Buckles, and Amitabh Chandra (published online 8 August 2006) [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF] [Appendix Exhibits] [Reprints & Permissions]

BiDil: From Another Vantage Point Gary Puckrein (published online 15 August 2006) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

PERSPECTIVE: Being Specific About Race-Specific Medicine Jonathan Kahn and Pamela Sankar (published online 15 August 2006) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

TRENDS: The Rise In Spending Among Medicare Beneficiaries: The Role Of Chronic Disease Prevalence And Changes In Treatment Intensity Kenneth E. Thorpe and David H. Howard (published online 22 August 2006) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

FROM THE FIELD: Rising Medicare Costs: Are We In Crisis? Dana P. Goldman and Neeraj Sood (published online 22 August 2006) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

FROM THE FIELD: Rising Medicare Costs: The Authors Respond Kenneth E. Thorpe and David H. Howard (published online 22 August 2006) [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

Health Care In New Orleans Before And After Hurricane Katrina Robin Rudowitz, Diane Rowland, and Adele Shartzer (published online 29 August 2006) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

GRANTWATCH: REPORT: Establishing And Refining Hurricane Response Systems For Long-Term Care Facilities Kathryn Hyer, Lisa M. Brown, Amy Berman, and LuMarie Polivka-West (published online 29 August 2006) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

INTERVIEW: Pay-For-Performance: Too Much Of A Good Thing? A Conversation With Martin Roland Robert Galvin (published online 5 September 2006) [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints & Permissions]

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