Commentary: Office Visit: Treatments - at What Cost?

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Health care access and affordability are topics receiving much attention locally and nationally. In focusing on affordable health care, one of the critical factors to be considered is what medical treatments are covered under a health care benefit plan. In my opinion health care plans should provide benefits for certain medical treatments that are within the established standard of care and supported by peer-reviewed medical literature.

Covered treatments are generally those proven to be effective by medical and scientific evidence. An experimental treatment is one in which the results, as well as the risks to the patient, are unknown. Many times an experimental …