Insurers seek proof new treatments work before covering them

Published June 4, 2019

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An article in Business First about health insurers who are requiring proof that new treatments work before they will agree to cover them looks at research being conducted at UB to develop a process to make a 3D print model of the human heart and brain to allow surgeons to test new devices, strategies or treatments for individual patients and interviews Ciprian Ionita, professor of biomedical engineering and neurosurgery.

“We have been pushing for this for a long time,” he said. “Previously, it was a domain of a hobby. But it got to the point where it became technology that was very reliable. We were sure it was going to be used in hospitals.”

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