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The goals of this study were: (1) to review the mechanisms used by various countries to regulate the purchase and use of expensive imaging technologies and to examine the effect of these mechanisms on the expenditure on health care, the quality of care, and the access to imaging services; (2) to offer the Ministry of Health recommendations on regulatory mechanisms that would enable the purchase of expensive imaging technologies constraining the growth of expenditure on health care and without undermining the quality of care or access to services; (3) to reevaluate the suitability of the Certificate of Need (CoN) mechanism currently used in Israel.

The goals of this study are: Goals 1. To examine the perceptions of health plan members regarding waiting times for community-based specialty care and the experience of members from their own perspective. 2. To characterize the conduct of health plan members and the factors influencing them when making an appointment for specialty care. 3. To understand the dynamics of arranging a visit to a specialist physician and to identify barriers to appointment setting with the aim of shortening waiting times.