To a question about the cost of biologics from the audience after her talk, Dr. Hahn said that clinicians must look beyond the bottom line: “If in fact your intervention costs $30,000 a year, but people have a better quality of life for 20 or 30 years, that intervention might be cost effective.”
At the end of her talk, which preceded a luncheon held in her honor, session moderator Gary R. Feldman, MD, FACR, announced that the CRA would be funding a rheumatology fellowship in Dr. Hahn’s name.
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Gretchen Henkel is a medical journalist based in California.
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