Lack of training and lack of knowledge can adversely influence a patient’s clinical outcomes.

The AMA’s Historic Health Fraud and Alternative Medicine Collection includes images of quack devices from the early 20th century that generated oversight we now take for granted.

Whether any particular perspective is the right one is contingent upon conditions in which the analysis is to be applied.

CEA has been increasingly used to inform public and private organizations’ reimbursement decisions, benefit designs, and price negotiations worldwide.

A 3-panel comic illustrates an offer of data to pay for health care services.

Intervention investment decisions are fraught with complexity and uncertainty, so models are used to synthesize evidence from multiple sources to help inform organizational and practice decisions.

Modeling how technology assessment fits into cost-effectiveness frameworks can broaden the range of options for improving health equity.

A wire, plaster, and wood sculpture of a DNA double helix with one mismatched base pair considers how we might justly weigh overall health equity against extremely costly interventions for uncommon genetic illnesses.

Novel interventions that are effective and safe but costly suggest the importance of questions about value, accessibility, and affordability.

Insurers’ decisions about which services to cover are often based on economic models that are seemingly objective but neglect factors affecting people who are economically disadvantaged.