THE INFLUENCE OF OUTCOME STUDIES ON REHABILITATION POLICY

A terrific collaborative opportunity exists today for providers and pa yers of neurorehabilitation services to benefit from one another's ini tiatives and creativity. That opportunity will be realized when provid ers and papers candidly address each others' business and clinical mis sions and also issues of societal and moral obligations (ie, ethical c oncerns). To date, these discussions have been limited or nonexistent. Substantial existing data document the clinical effectiveness of neur orehabilitation services, which, in an era of managed health care, pro vide a financial opportunity for the payer community. This article pre sents a framework by which providers and payers of neurorehabilitation services can initiate discussions and reap mutual benefits.