Alliance for Better Medicine

The Alliance for Better Medicine states ion its membership form that it is a "coalition of physicians, patient advocates, ethnic healthcare organizations, and academic experts promoting advances in evidence based medicine and disease management."

On its website that it "works by educating the public, healthcare consumers, and policy makers to ensure that health policies protect individualized medical care, and that cost-effectiveness or value in healthcare is determined by the total costs of treatment throught the course of an illness, or over the life of a patient or healthcare consumer."

Activities
On its website ABM states that it was formed in April 2005 and that "we have had the following impacts: • "Met with California Medi-Cal officials to affirm that they would not base their decisions solely on the Oregon Drug Effectiveness Review Project reports." • "We’ve also been monitoring California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) which has also provided funding to the Oregon study and confirmed that their formulary decisions will consider other information as well." • "Proposed new research under the California Healthcare Accountability Center to the State of California" • "We’ve held a symposium of leaders and published (and are publishing on the internet) the key findings".

Personnel

 * Karen Vicari, Executive Director

Funding
On its website ABM states that the group became a 501(c)(3) under the U.S. tax code in May 2007. However, the

Contact Details
Alliance for Better Medicine 2791 24th Street Sacramento, CA 95818 Phone: (916) 296-8444 Website: http://www.allianceforbettermedicine.org/

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