Health Care Providers - Publications - Faculty & Research

August 2012 (Revised December 2023)
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Note on Health Insurance Coverage, Coding, and Payment

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Jo Ellen Slurzberg

This note explains how health care technology and service innovators receive payment from government insurers, in the U.S. and abroad, and from private insurers. It describes each of the three steps needed to obtain reimbursement: coverage, coding, and payment. It also... View Details

Keywords: Health Care Delivery; Health Care Costs; Health Insurance; Health Insurance Marketplaces; Health Care and Treatment; Cost; Insurance; Innovation and Invention; Private Sector; Public Sector; Decision Making; Information Technology; Health Industry; Health Industry

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Educators

15 Jul 2013
News

Five Imperatives for Improving Health Care

19 Feb 2015
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Health Care is Every Company’s Business

30 Nov 2016
News

Improving On-the-Fly Teamwork in Health Care

Article

Better Accounting Transforms Health Care Delivery

By: Robert S. Kaplan and Mary L. Witkowski

The paper describes the theory and preliminary results for an action research program that explores the implications from better measurements of health care outcomes and costs. After summarizing Porter's outcome taxonomy (Porter 2010), we illustrate how to use process... View Details

Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Research; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry

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20 Nov 2014
Video

Health Care Acceleration Challenge Finalists

20 Sep 2009
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Why We Need Universal, Consumer-Driven Health Care

29 May 2018
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How Amazon’s digital health moves could affect providers

May 2024 (Revised January 2025)
Technical Note

Health Care Payment in the United States

By: Robert S. Huckman, Jeff Charca and Craig Garthwaite

This document provides an overview of how various actors (e.g., physicians, hospitals, and other health care providers) are paid in the United States health care system. It is particularly focused on features of the payment system that contribute to strategic decisions... View Details

Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Health Industry

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07 Oct 2014
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Michael Porter: Disrupt Health Care to Save It

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Fostering health care connections across Harvard

03 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling

experts in the health care field, to provide their views on various facets of one of this country's most important and complex problems. Bill George Professor of Management... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Health

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Careers - Health Care

current students explore career opportunities. There are many ways to connect with alumni whether it’s on campus at conferences or events or around the world during treks and trips. There is also a robust HBS Health View Details

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Leadership - Health Care

Health Care Initiative Leadership 1ms Robert S. Huckman Howard Cox Health Care Initiative Faculty Chair Professor Huckman teaches the second-year... View Details

17 Nov 2016
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Building Affordable Health Care in Paradise

17 Nov 2016
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Building Affordable Health Care in Paradise

Keywords: Re: Tarun Khanna; Health

12 Nov 2014
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Health Acceleration Challenge Contestants Aim to Improve U.S. Health Care

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Strategy for Health Care Delivery—Virtual

book Redefining Health Care—as a template for restructuring health care delivery around value. The process starts with providers and expands into... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Health Care

Article

How Not to Cut Health Care Costs

By: Robert S. Kaplan and Derek A. Haas

Health care providers in much of the world are trying to respond to the tremendous pressure to reduce costs—but evidence suggests that many of their attempts are counterproductive, raising costs and sometimes decreasing the quality of care. Using evidence from field... View Details

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