Publications

24 Apr 2014
Lecture

Welcome and Introduction to Value Based Health Care Delivery

August 2003 (Revised September 2008)
Background Note

Note on Financing of the U.S. Health Care Sector

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Jeff Grahling

This course describes the public and private sources of financing of the U.S. health-care sector,and identifies the characteristics of insurance policies, their costs, the structure of the insurance industry, and the role of consultants and brokers. The insurance... View Details

Keywords: Economic Sectors; Financing and Loans; Insurance; Industry Structures; Health Industry; Health Industry; United States

Educators

8 Jan 2013
Other Presentation

Leadership Workshop: Strategy for Health Care Delivery: Outcomes Measurement

Keywords: Health

March 14, 2007
Other Article

How Physicians Can Change the Future of Health Care

By: Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg

Keywords: Health

05 Jul 2016
News

Health Insurance Stores and Health Hubs

02 Jun 2021
News

The Fastest-Growing U.S. States Have the Worst Health Care

September 2011
Other Article

How to Solve the Cost Crisis in Health Care

By: Robert S. Kaplan and Michael E. Porter

Keywords: Health

2009
Other Article

The Finnish Health Care System: A Value Based Perspective

Keywords: Health

September 17, 2013
Other Article

Why Health Care Is Stuck—And How to Fix It

Keywords: Health

Article

Administrative Costs Associated with Physician Billing and Insurance-Related Activities at an Academic Health Care System

By: Phillip Tseng, Robert S. Kaplan, Barak D. Richman, Mahek A. Shah and Kevin A. Schulman

The federal government mandated adoption of certified electronic health record systems (EHR), at least in part, to reduce administrative costs for physicians. This study used time-driven activity-based costing to determine the administrative costs associated with... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Cost Management; Insurance; Problems and Challenges

1 PM – 2 PM EDT, 17 Sep 2015
Webinars: Trending@HBS

Risk of Unfunded Public Pension Fund and Health Care Benefits in the US

Detroit is the canary in the coal mine on the issue of unfunded pension and health care liabilities. Had the city not declared bankruptcy, it was projected that 67% of every incremental revenue dollar would have been allocated to these legacy benefits by 2017. Yet even... View Details

15 Jul 2020
News

The Impact of Public Policy on Health Care Innovation

January–February 2000
Article

Consumer-Driven Changes in Health Care in the United States

By: Regina E. Herzlinger

Keywords: Health Industry; United States

30 Apr 2008
News

McCain: Put Families 'Back in Charge' of Health Care

17 Jun 2009
News

A Transparent Health Care Industry Focused on Patient Outcomes

Article

Physician-Induced Demand for Medical Care

By: Jerry R. Green

This paper addresses the theoretical models designed to ascertain the existence of a variable level of physicians' activity in shifting the demand of their patients. Two basic approaches are followed: equilibrium models of the demand for health care, and disequilibrium... View Details

Keywords: Physicians; Economic Equilibrium; Monopolistic Competition; Economic Competition; Medical Care

January 2005 (Revised March 2008)
Exercise

New Service Design Exercise

By: Frances X. Frei

Used in the second module of a course on Managing Service Operations, which addresses the design of sustainable service models (606-031). Provides an opportunity for students to design a new service offering, paying careful attention to the link between strategic... View Details

Keywords: Design; Management; Service Operations; Strategy