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The Keystone Plan
How
to Get Basic Health Care | How
to See a Specialist | How
to Deal With a Need For Emergency Medical Care
How
to Get Continuing Care After Emergency Medical Care | What
Medical Services Need Preapproval
Keystone Participating
Providers | How
to Change Your Primary Care Physician or Referred Specialist
Medical Technology Assessment
is Performed by Keystone
Medical Technology Assessment is Performed by Keystone
- Technology assessment is the review and evaluation of available clinical and scientific information from expert sources. These expert sources include and are not limited to articles published by governmental agencies, national peer review journals, national experts, clinical trials, and manufacturer’s literature.
- Keystone uses the technology assessment process to find out whether new drugs, procedures or devices are considered to be safe and effective before approving them as a covered service.
- If a new drug, procedure or device is not considered to be safe and effective, it will be excluded from CHIP coverage as “experimental or investigative.” More information available.
- When new technology becomes available or when a practitioner or member requests, Keystone researches scientific information available from expert sources. Following this analysis, Keystone makes a decision about when a new drug, procedure or device has been proven to be safe and effective and uses this information to decide if an item becomes a covered service.
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