Jul 25, 2019
ICER. What is it? Who is it? Who put them in charge of my children’s health care? I ask this question – urgently – because Thursday, this group called ICER is meeting in Massachusetts to decide whether my sons, Austin and Max, should continue to have access to new...
Jul 11, 2019
You’ve probably never heard of it, but the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review is one of the most powerful players in healthcare. It works with insurance companies to evaluate healthcare using a math formula. By reducing every patient to a dollar amount,...
Jun 26, 2019
The Institute for Clinical and Economic Review and its controversial “one-size-fits-all” value framework are a direct threat to rare disease patients, an independent report warns. In its newly-released report, “Looming Challenges for ICER in Assessing the Value of...
