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Consumers' Misunderstanding of Health Insurance
By: George Loewenstein, Joelle Y. Friedman, Barbara McGill, Sarah Ahmad, Suzanne Linck, Stacey Sinkula, John Beshears, James J. Choi, Jonathan Kolstad, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian, John A. List and Kevin G. Volpp
We report results from two surveys of representative samples of Americans with private health insurance. The first examines how well Americans understand, and believe they understand, traditional health insurance coverage. The second examines whether those insured... View Details
- August 2013 (Revised August 2014)
- Case
Aon Hewitt's Private Health Insurance Exchange
By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Aiden Y. Feng and Meghan D. Oliver
Aon Hewitt, a leading health insurance broker and consultant, is one of the first movers in forming exchanges to sell health insurance. What kinds of products should it offer on this exchange? View Details
- February 2013
- Article
Let them Have Choice: Gains from Shifting Away from Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance and Toward an Individual Exchange
By: Leemore S. Dafny, Katherine Ho and Mauricio Varela
- August 2012 (Revised December 2023)
- Background Note
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
- August 2012 (Revised January 2013)
- Case
Public Health Insurance Exchanges: The Massachusetts Experience
By: Regina Herzlinger and Jordan Bazinsky
The CEO of Tufts Health Plan, James Roosevelt, is wondering whether to offer insurance products on the Massachusetts Connector, the first U.S. exchange. He wonders if he should enter these uncharted waters at all. And, if yes, with a broad network or a narrow network... View Details
- Blog Post
Why Economic Conservatives Should Support the Individual Mandate in Health Care
Although many conservatives are gnashing their teeth about the Supreme Court's upholding the individual mandate, had it not been upheld, their worst nightmares would have occurred: government would have required hundreds of billions in additional taxes to pay for... View Details
- April 2012
- Article
Paying a Premium on Your Premium? Consolidation in the U.S. Health Insurance Industry
By: Leemore S. Dafny, Mark Duggan and Subramaniam Ramanarayanan
- October 2012
- Article
The Impact of Tort Reform on Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Premiums
By: Ronen Avraham, Leemore S. Dafny and Max Schanzenbach
- February 2012 (Revised June 2013)
- Case
Moving to Universal Coverage: Health Care Reform in Massachusetts
By: Michael E. Porter and Jennifer F Baron
State health care reform in Massachusetts has involved a phased process, focusing first on coverage expansion and then turning to delivery system innovation and cost containment. In 2006, the state adopted an individual mandate to obtain health care coverage which,... View Details
- 2012
- Other Book
Redefining German Health Care: Moving to a Value-Based System
By: Michael E. Porter and Clemens Guth
The German health care system is on a collision course with budget realities. Costs are high and rising, and quality problems are becoming ever more apparent. Decades of reforms have produced little change to these troubling trends. Why has Germany failed to solve... View Details
Keywords: Health
- December 2011
- Article
Data Impediments to Empirical Work on Health Insurance Markets
By: Leemore S. Dafny, David Dranove, Frank Limbrock and Fiona Scott Morton
We compare four datasets that researchers might use to study competition in the health insurance industry. We show that the two datasets most commonly used to estimate market concentration differ considerably from each other (both in levels and in changes over time),... View Details
- September 2011
- Supplement
Narayana Hrudayalaya Heart Hospital
By: Tarun Khanna and Tanya Bijlani
Narayana Hrudayalaya (NH) is one of the world's busiest heart hospitals, where surgeons perform 30-35 complex cardiac surgeries daily. With an average cost of $1,800 per surgery, the hospital treats patients at affordable prices, and does not turn away even the poorest... View Details
- September 2011 (Revised January 2012)
- Case
Telemonitoring at Visiting Nurse Health System
By: F. Warren McFarlan, Mark Keil and Mala Kaul
The Telemonitoring at Visiting Nurse Health System case presents one home healthcare organization's efforts to use telemonitoring to improve the quality of care provided to at-risk patients who were discharged from hospitals and needed home care. After two years of... View Details
- August 2011 (Revised July 2014)
- Case
Amil and the Health Care System in Brazil
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho
Dr. Edson Bueno created Amil, Brazil's largest health insurer. Unlike many others, it is vertically integrated. Dr. Bueno has two opportunities for growth. Which, if any, should he pursue? View Details
- March 2011 (Revised March 2011)
- Case
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey - Managing in the Shadow of Health Care Reform
Per the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), which President Obama signed in 2010, states would be required to create state-wide health insurance marketplaces - the Health Benefit Exchanges (HBEs) - in which individuals and small employers could choose... View Details
- 2010
- Chapter
Consumer-Driven Universal Health Care is the Best Solution
The best way to achieve universal health insurance coverage is to implement a consumer-controlled system rather than a government-controlled system. View Details
- August 2010 (Revised March 2012)
- Case
The UCLA Medical Center: Kidney Transplantation
By: Michael E. Porter, Jennifer F Baron, Jacob Mathew Chacko and Robin Jian Tang
In 2010, organ transplantation remained among the few sets of medical conditions in the U.S. for which bundled payments were a dominant reimbursement model, and for which patient health outcomes were universally measured and reported. In 1986, UCLA Medical Center was... View Details
- March 2010 (Revised April 2014)
- Case
American Well: The Doctor Will E-See You Now
By: Elie Ofek and Ron Laufer
What is next for healthcare IT provider American Well, whose innovative Online Care technology allows physicians to deliver care to patients online in real time? Using American Well's platform, patients with non-emergency health concerns can communicate with physicians... View Details
- February 2010
- Teaching Note
Koo Foundation Sun Yat-Sen Cancer Center: Breast Cancer Care in Taiwan (TN)
By: Michael E. Porter and Jennifer F Baron
Teaching Note for [710425]. View Details