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The Path To Cost Comparisons Can Go Through PCORI, Experts Say

While some seek creative means to leverage the recently created Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute to encourage cost comparisons of technology and services, others say there are no real barriers to doing so.

As the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute gets up and running to drive the nation’s comparative-effectiveness-research agenda, some are seeking creative means to leverage the public-private entity to encourage cost comparisons of technology and services.

The 2010 health care reform legislation establishing the institute explicitly focuses on “clinical” comparative effectiveness research, rather than cost comparisons....

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