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Cost Containment Workgroup
2008-2009
Report Title
Date Published
Description
September 2009
A report identifying key areas for cost containment.
Cost Containment: Findings From Our 2008-09 Workgroup March
2009
Summary of key cost containment themes in 2007-2008 seen in California state and national proposals for health reform.
March
2009
Matrix of key cost containment themes in 2007-2008 seen in California state and national proposals for health reform.
2007-2008
Report Title
Date Published
Description
July
2008
A discussion of transparency as a basis for consumer driven, value based medical care.
March
2008
A summary of the mechanisms and caveats of the common cost containment methods used in recent presidential and California health care reform proposals.
2006-2007
Report Title
Date Published
Description
December 2007
Paper summarizing the cost containment strategies outlined in leading state and national proposals for health care reform.
April 2007
One-page summary of the approaches to cost containment in hospitals
April 2007

One-page summary of the approaches to cost containment through medical innovations

April 2007

One-page summary of the approaches to containing pharmaceutical costs

April 2007
One-page summary of the approaches to containing costs in out patient care
April 2007
One-page summary of the approaches to containing costs by developing an adequate workforce of trained doctors and nurses
April 2007
Paper on both the possibilities for reference pricing to contain pharmaceutical costs as well as the dangers of reference pricing in obscuring a healthy marketplace edge in developing needed innovations.
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