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Understanding Health Systems, Payors, and Regulation - Health Care
products and pricing on the public health insurance exchanges, and co-payment coupons for prescription drugs. Featured Research 15 Nov 2016 Harvard Business Review Health Care... View Details
- 15 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Five Imperatives for Improving Health Care
to be reimbursed very well by insurance companies, and they've set themselves up to do a lot of those particular procedures? "Those are two different scenarios, and we'd like to see more of the former than the latter." Promoting... View Details
- August 1975 (Revised August 1991)
- Case
University Hospital
Herzlinger, Regina E. "University Hospital." Harvard Business School Case 176-020, August 1975. (Revised August 1991.)
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
policy changes are not essential for these changes to happen. Key policy areas to be addressed are: Access: Ultimately, access to care must be addressed through mandatory health insurance with subsidies for... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
University Elections
Jaime Sepulveda, MPH ’80, MPT ’81, SD ’85; MD ’78, National Autonomous University of Mexico. Director General, National Institute of Public Health; Dean, School of Public Health of Mexico. Mexico City,... View Details
- 03 Dec 2014
- HBS Seminar
Ginger Jin, University of Maryland
- 27 Apr 2009
- News
Health Care Reform that Will Kill the U.S. Economy
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Regulating Hospital Prices Based on Market Concentration Is Likely to Leave High-Price Hospitals Unaffected
By: Maximilian J. Pany, Michael E. Chernew and Leemore S. Dafny
Concern about high hospital prices for commercially insured patients has motivated several proposals to regulate these prices. Such proposals often limit regulations to highly concentrated hospital markets. Using a large sample of 2017 US commercial insurance claims,... View Details
Keywords: Health Care Providers; Hospitals; Insurance Market Regulation; Price Regulation; Markets; Health Care and Treatment; Cost; Quality; Insurance; Price; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
Pany, Maximilian J., Michael E. Chernew, and Leemore S. Dafny. "Regulating Hospital Prices Based on Market Concentration Is Likely to Leave High-Price Hospitals Unaffected." Health Affairs 40, no. 9 (September 2021): 1386–1394.
- 02 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Research and Prospects
As is clear to anyone who pays medical insurance premiums or has undergone any kind of medical procedure, the business of health care is an expensive one. The technology is expensive. The research is... View Details
The U.S. Needs an SEC for Its Health Care System
The U.S. health care system suffers from a lack of transparency. Employers, insurers and individual consumers pay varying prices for treatments, drugs and digital information... View Details
Cutting the Gordian Knot of Employee Health Care
President Joe Biden’s promise to give every American access to affordable health insurance is well-intentioned, but his plan’s policy elements—a public option, a permanent expanded tax credit—require congressional approval and would expend significant political and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
creates delay and duplication. Individuals must own their record, and the health plan is the place to assist each subscriber by pulling all the parts of his or her record together. What do we do about 45 million uninsured people? We need... View Details
- 23 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care
Aligning the Nature and Management of Health Care (Harvard Business Press, 2009), explains how to create more knowledgeable, flexible, and responsive delivery organizations. “Some of the most important innovations are not technologic—they... View Details
- October 2016 (Revised March 2019)
- Case
Carrum Health: Scaling Bundled Payments
By: Robert S. Huckman and Sarah Mehta
Founded in 2014, Carrum Health helped self-insured employers located in three markets (San Diego, California; Seattle, Washington; and San Francisco, California) save money on their employees’ planned surgeries. It did so by contracting directly with top-quality... View Details
Keywords: Health Financing; Health Insurance; Value-based Healthcare Reimbursements; Bundled Payments; Innovation; Scale; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Cost Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Health Industry; California; San Francisco; San Diego; Seattle
Huckman, Robert S., and Sarah Mehta. "Carrum Health: Scaling Bundled Payments." Harvard Business School Case 617-017, October 2016. (Revised March 2019.)
- October 24, 2018
- Article
End the Corporate Health Care Tax
By: Mark R. Kramer and John Pontillo
Imagine if a single piece of legislation could effectively eliminate all U.S. corporate taxes, subsidize hundreds of millions of dollars in new corporate investment, increase the take-home pay of most U.S. employees, ease state and local budgets, and reduce the U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Taxation; Health Care and Treatment; Insurance; Taxation; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; United States
Kramer, Mark R., and John Pontillo. "End the Corporate Health Care Tax." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (October 24, 2018).
- 20 Feb 2018
- News
Electronic health records don’t cut administrative costs
- 2016
- Teaching Note
Advanced Leadership Pathways: General Gale Pollock and Services for the Vision Impaired
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Tessa Natanay Hamilton and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
Teaching note for case 314029. Following a successful military career as an Army Nurse, achieving rank as Major General, becoming the first female Acting Surgeon General of the Army, and the 22nd Chief of the Army Nurse Corps, Pollock developed a vested interest in... View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Health Care Education; Insurance Companies; Military; Leadership Skills; Health Care and Treatment; Education; Insurance; Business Startups; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Change Management; Health Industry; Health Industry
Kanter, Rosabeth M., Tessa Natanay Hamilton, and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone. "Advanced Leadership Pathways: General Gale Pollock and Services for the Vision Impaired." Harvard Business Publishing Teaching Note 316-036, 2016. (Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative.)
- 30 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Under a Research Microscope
The $2 trillion health care system is one of the United States' largest industries—but one of its worst performing by almost any measure other than technological innovation. The problems are painful, including escalating costs, expensive... View Details