Journal article
What is ‘medical necessity’?
- Abstract:
- Imagine that we are considering whether our healthcare system (or insurer) should fund treatment or procedure X. One factor that may be cited is that of so-called ‘medical necessity’. The claim would be that treatment X should be eligible for funding if it is medically necessary, but ineligible if this does not apply. Similarly, (and relevant to the debates in this special issue), if considering whether a particular treatment should be ethically and/or legally permitted, we may wish to distinguish between cases where the treatment is medically necessary, and those were it is not. But what do we mean by this concept? Here I will propose and briefly defend one plausible and practical definition.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1177/14777509231190521
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- Publisher:
- SAGE Publications
- Journal:
- Clinical Ethics More from this journal
- Volume:
- 18
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 285-286
- Publication date:
- 2023-08-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2023-07-12
- DOI:
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1758-101X
- ISSN:
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1477-7509
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English
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1491481
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pubs:1491481
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2023-07-12
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- Copyright holder:
- Wilkinson
- Copyright date:
- 2023
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- © The Author(s) 2023. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page.
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