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Health Affairs, Vol 11, Issue 4, 38-66
Copyright © 1992 by Project HOPE

Journal Article

The legislative battle over health services research

Budget reconciliation legislation in 1989 created the new Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR), which folded in the National Center for Health Services Research and Health Care Technology Assessment, among the law's other provisions. The creation of the new agency represented a shift in priorities toward outcomes and effectiveness research in medical practice and made explicit the federal government's role in developing practice guidelines. The new agency was born in the midst of an extraordinary bipartisan budget negotiation process in late 1989; its becoming linked to the contentious issue of physician payment reform nearly killed the new agency before it appeared. The narrative of political wrangling that resulted in the creation of AHCPR spans Capitol Hill, the White House, the agencies of the Department of Health and Human Services, and renowed health services researchers on either coast and in Washington, D.C.

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