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Biotech advances offer promises to consumers, challenges to health plans
Published in Managed Care Weekly Digest, November 13th, 2006
Each week the media report to consumers the potential health benefits of the latest advances by biotechnology researchers; however, those same potential advances hold great challenges to health insurers that are being addressed by Premera Blue Cross, according to a case study ("Managing Biotechnology In A Network-Model Health Plan: A U.S. Private Payer Perspective") published in Health Affairs by a member of Premera's pharmaceutical units and a University of Washington professor of pharmacy and public health.
"Medicine today and biotechnology, in particular, offers us as patients such great promise of being able to treat diseases and conditions that only a...
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