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- 24 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurial Hospital Pioneers New Model
established an insurance plan that insures many rural poor in two large, populous states in India for the equivalent of ten cents a day: "The numbers of people are so large, that for ten cents a day the... View Details
- 11 Oct 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Respond to the “Dependency Ratio” Dilemma?
a discussion on Accounting for Social Insurance (PV): http://www.fasab.gov/pdffiles/si_newsrelease.pdf Of course, dependency ratios are not reduced without other economic and social effects. For example, to the extent that current... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 2013
- Case
Advanced Leadership Pathways: General Gale Pollock and Services for the Vision Impaired
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Juliane Calingo Schwetz and Patricia Bissett Higgins
In July 2012, retired United States Army Major General Gale Pollock created Elevivo, a venture that worked on developing a comprehensive disease management software system to support the growing number of visually impaired individuals by providing them with tailored... View Details
Keywords: Disease Management; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Education; Information Technology; Insurance; Entrepreneurship; Leadership; Health Industry; Health Industry; United States
Kanter, Rosabeth M., Juliane Calingo Schwetz, and Patricia Bissett Higgins. "Advanced Leadership Pathways: General Gale Pollock and Services for the Vision Impaired." Harvard Business Publishing Case 314-029, 2013.
- 11 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI
problems. Positioning your service or product as “AI for health care” or “AI for sales” is not nearly specific enough. While you can sell AI tools to data science teams or IT departments, business leaders want to know you understand their... View Details
Keywords: by Rocio Wu
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Babies
other ten or fifteen percent have to pay anywhere from $25,000 to $60,000 and up. You don't see that kind of inequity often." Inconsistent standards of payment. Only ten U.S. states have some sort of mandate regarding insurance... View Details
- September 2016
- Article
Value Based Care and Bundled Payments: Anesthesia Care Costs for Outpatient Oncology Surgery Using Time-driven Activity-based Costing
By: Katy E. French, Alexis B. Guzman, Augustin C. Rubio, John C. Frenzel and Thomas Feeley
Background:
With the movement towards bundled payments, stakeholders should know the true cost of the care they deliver. Time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) can be used to estimate costs for each episode of care. In this analysis, TDABC is used to both... View Details
French, Katy E., Alexis B. Guzman, Augustin C. Rubio, John C. Frenzel, and Thomas Feeley. "Value Based Care and Bundled Payments: Anesthesia Care Costs for Outpatient Oncology Surgery Using Time-driven Activity-based Costing." Healthcare: The Journal of Delivery Science and Innovation 4, no. 3 (September 2016): 173–180.
- 11 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
The Business of Behavioral Economics
health insurance company, social norming can cut both ways. In the project, the company set up an intervention to increase participation in using "walk stations" that allow employees to exercise on a... View Details
- 23 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Forgiving Medical Debt Won't Make Everyone Happier
people with health insurance often are saddled with medical debt. Policymakers have taken notice, and in an election year amid an uncertain economy, health care, debt, and... View Details
- 16 Jul 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Obamacare
did just that, says Quelch. After legislation was passed, 14 states exercised the option to set up their own health insurance exchanges, as opposed to the other 36, which defaulted to the federal exchange.... View Details
- 12 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Competition the Cure for Healthcare
past. Health plans think of themselves as insurance companies because that is what they started out doing. Providers are organized around the old functional structure of specialties, rather than integrated... View Details
- 28 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
Challenging the Belief that Liability Laws Kill Medical Device Innovation
Defensive medicine spurs innovation They found, ultimately—and perhaps counterintuitively—that far from being an inhibitor to innovation, the practice of defensive medicine might have actually encouraged it. Legal liability pressure in View Details
- February 2023
- Article
A Different Framework to Achieve Universal Coverage in the U.S.
By: Katherine Baicker, Amitabh Chandra and Mark Shepard
This JAMA Forum discusses alternative ways to achieve universal coverage in the US such as administrative simplification in the Affordable Care Act plans to increase enrollment, having a basic policy that would be available to everyone, and options for supplemental... View Details
Baicker, Katherine, Amitabh Chandra, and Mark Shepard. "A Different Framework to Achieve Universal Coverage in the U.S." e230187. JAMA Health Forum 4, no. 2 (February 2023).
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51321 Entrepreneurship and Public Health Insurance By: Olds, Gareth Abstract—I examine the relationship between public health... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Five questions for Regina E. Herzlinger
care system into a consumer-driven model. What, in a nutshell, are the advantages to your proposal? And the risks? Herzlinger: The pros of consumer-driven health care: Unlike today's cookie-cutter insurance... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Business Case for Diabetes Disease Management
analyze the complexities of disease management and check all avenues for potential business opportunities. The participants, almost all of them health professionals, sorted through the risks and benefits of disease management for... View Details
- April 1995 (Revised August 1995)
- Supplement
Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield (H)
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Ramona Hilgenkamp
Supplements the (A) case. Contains a denouement. View Details
Herzlinger, Regina E., and Ramona Hilgenkamp. "Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield (H)." Harvard Business School Supplement 195-223, April 1995. (Revised August 1995.)
- April 1995 (Revised August 1995)
- Supplement
Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield (E)
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Ramona Hilgenkamp
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Herzlinger, Regina E., and Ramona Hilgenkamp. "Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield (E)." Harvard Business School Supplement 195-220, April 1995. (Revised August 1995.)
- April 1995 (Revised August 1995)
- Supplement
Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield (B)
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Ramona Hilgenkamp
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Herzlinger, Regina E., and Ramona Hilgenkamp. "Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 195-217, April 1995. (Revised August 1995.)
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
November 2015 Quarterly Journal of Economics Behavioral Hazard in Health Insurance By: Baicker, Katherine, Sendhil Mullainathan, and Joshua Schwartzstein Abstract—A fundamental implication of standard moral... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?
and business. My plan is to compare internationally the legal and regulatory limits countries put on the ability to commercialize health information and what this tells us about the prospects for global health-care businesses. I have been... View Details