The Fund supports several networks of state health policymakers to help identify, inspire, and inform policy leaders.
The Fund identifies and shares policy ideas and analysis on topics important to state health policymakers, particularly on issues related to state leadership, primary care, aging, and total costs of care.
Keep up with news and updates from the Milbank Memorial Fund. And read the latest blogs from our thought leaders, including Fund President Christopher F. Koller.
The Fund publishes The Milbank Quarterly, as well as reports, issues briefs, and case studies on topics important to health policy leaders.
The Milbank Memorial Fund is an endowed operating foundation that publishes The Milbank Quarterly, commissions projects, and convenes state health policy decision makers on issues they identify as important to population health.
June 1982 (Volume 60)
Alan B. Cohen
Donald R. Cohodes
Back to The Milbank Quarterly
Recently, policy makers have become concerned that some technologies whose capital costs fall below $150,000 may contribute more heavily to hospital cost inflation than their higher capital-cost counterparts. One proposed public policy response is to extend Certificate of Need regulation to these presently nonregulated technologies. Electronic fetal monitoring is used here to explore the economic and noneconomic issues in regulating adoption of technology, and to examine alternative strategies, including economic incentives to hospitals and technology manufacturers.
Author(s): Alan B. Cohen; Donald R. Cohodes
Download the Article
Read on JSTOR
Volume 60, Issue 2 (pages 307–328) Published in 1982
