Publications

Summer 2023
Article

Do Policies to Increase Access to Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder Work?

By: Eric Barrette, Leemore S. Dafny and Karen Shen

Even among commercially insured individuals, opioid use disorder is undertreated in the United States: nearly half receive no treatment within six months of a new diagnosis. Using a difference-in-differences specification exploiting the extension of insurance parity... View Details

Keywords: Opioid Treatment; Medication-assisted Treatment; Substance Use Disorder; Private Insurance; Insurance; Health Care and Treatment

Article

Treatment Of Opioid Use Disorder Among Commercially Insured U.S. Adults, 2008–17

By: Karen Shen, Eric Barrette and Leemore S. Dafny

There is abundant literature on efforts to reduce opioid prescriptions and misuse, but comparatively little on the treatment provided to people with opioid use disorder (OUD). Using claims data representing 12–15 million nonelderly adults covered through commercial... View Details

Keywords: Opioid Treatment; Medication-assisted Treatment; Substance Use Disorder; Private Insurance; Health Disorders; Health Care and Treatment; Insurance; United States

January 19, 2024
Article

Value-Based Health Care Can Transform the Treatment of Patients with Substance Use Disorder

By: Robert S. Kaplan and Sarah E. Wakeman

U.S. overdose deaths currently exceed 100,000 per year. New facilities, known as bridge clinics, are broadening access to high-quality care by offering outpatient substance use disorder (SUD) treatment with few access barriers. But many of the critical services offered... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Cost; Adoption

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31 May 2018
News

Finding Freedom from Eating Disorders

was stunning. It was all new to her—she’d never known anyone who’d had an eating disorder, and hadn’t thought much about it before. It just wasn’t on her radar. But as she’d discover, eating disorders are a pervasive form of mental... View Details

22 Sep 2017
News

Turning a Disorder into an Opportunity

Michael Fieldhouse (AMP 177, 2009), director for Emerging Businesses and Federal Government at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Australia (HPE), launched the Dandelion program in Australia in 2015, introducing people with autism spectrum View Details

January 2024
Article

A Cost Model for a Low Threshold Clinic Treating Opioid Use Disorder

By: Sarah E. Wakeman, Elizabeth Powell, Syed Shehab, Grace Herman, Laura Kehoe and Robert S. Kaplan

The US fee-for-service payment system under-reimburses clinics offering access to comprehensive treatments for opioid use disorder (OUD). The funding shortfall limits a clinic’s ability to expand and improve access, especially for socially marginalized patients with... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Cost; Equality and Inequality; Health Industry

8 Aug 1990 - 12 Aug 1990
Conference Presentation

Multidimensional Scaling of DSM-III Personality Disorders in Two Populations

By: W. B. Simpson, M. J. Lyons, L. Young and M. T. Tsuang

Keywords: Health; Health Disorders; Demographics

January–February 2002
Article

Telephone Scatologia: Comorbidity with other Paraphilias and Paraphilia-Related Disorders

By: M. Price, M. Kafka, M. L. Commons, T. G. Gutheil and W. Simpson

Keywords: Health Disorders

24 Apr 2014
News

Seeing an opportunity to treat people with serious skin disorders

Rahul Mehendale (MBA 2003), CEO of mySkin, talks about this impact his company has in medical and cosmetic cases. (Published April 2014) View Details

October 2023
Background Note

What Leaders Need to Know about Mental Health

By: Boris Groysberg, Robin Abrahams, Liana Groysberg, Natalia Groysberg and Abhijit Naik

This paper will provide an overview of the nature of anxiety and depression, the particular vulnerabilities and stresses of CEOs, and suggestions for managing mental health in the workplace. View Details

Keywords: CEO; Mental Health; Health Care and Treatment; Health Disorders; Leadership; Well-being

2003
Article

Effect of Assessment Method on the Discrepancy between Judgments of Health Disorders People Have and Do Not Have: A Web Study

By: Jonathan Baron, David A. Asch, Angela Fagerlin, Christopher Jepson, George Loewenstein, Jason Riis, Margaret G. Stineman and Peter A. Ubel

Keywords: Judgments; Health Disorders; Web; Information

January 2006
Article

Preliminary Evidence for Parasympathetic Influence on Basal Heart Rate in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

By: J. W. Hopper, J. Spinazzola, W. B. Simpson and B. A. van der Kolk

Keywords: Health; Information; Health Disorders

29 Jun 2016
Research & Ideas

The $1 Trillion Link Between Mental Health and Economic Productivity

In April, the World Health Organization released a groundbreaking study that established a definitive link between mental health and economic productivity. The findings were both depressing and hopeful. On... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Mar 2023
News

Turning Point: In Good Company

Aparna Piramal Raje (MBA 2002) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Aparna Piramal Raje (MBA 2002) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) There have been many turning points in my journey of living with bipolar disorder over the last 20 years. HBS... View Details

Keywords: bipolar disorder; mental health; wellness; HBS community

19 Jan 2024
News

Value-Based Care Can Transform The Treatment Of Patients With Substance Use Disorder

October 2016
Case

Addicaid: Scaling a Digital Platform for Addiction Wellness and Recovery

By: Robert S. Huckman and Sarah Mehta

In 2013, Sam Frons founded Addicaid—a mobile application (app) that allowed people in addiction recovery to track their progress, check in with counselors, and connect with others in recovery programs. The app was grounded in cognitive behavioral therapy and used the... View Details

Keywords: Digital Health Interventions; Substance Use Disorder; Addiction Treatment; Addiction Recovery; Scale; Innovation; Health; Health Disorders; Health Industry; New York (city, NY)

Article

TDABC Cost Analysis of Ocular Disorders in an Ophthalmology Emergency Department versus Urgent Care: Clinical Experience at Massachusetts Eye and Ear

By: Robert S. Kaplan, Jonathan Chou, Mahek Shah, Amy Watts, Matthew Gardiner, Joan Miller and John I. Lowenstein

Purpose To perform a cost analysis comparison for managing common ocular disorders in an eye emergency department (ED) versus an urgent care setting using a time-driven activity-based cost model (TDABC) to assist physicians and staff in appropriate allocation of... View Details

Keywords: Time-driven Activity-based Cost Model; Emergency Room; Urgent Care Clinic; Cost; Analysis; Activity Based Costing and Management; Health Care and Treatment

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August 2020
Article

Contextual Determinants of Parental Reflective Functioning: Children with Autism versus Their Typically Developing Siblings

By: Yael Enav, Dana Erhard-Weiss, Amit Goldenberg, Marguerite Knudston, Antonio Y. Hardan and James J. Gross

In this study, we examined parental reflective functioning using the Parental Developmental Interview when parents were talking about their interactions with their child with autism versus the child’s typically developing siblings. Our sample included 30 parents who... View Details

Keywords: Autism Spectrum Disorders; Family Functioning And Support; Parents; Reflective Functioning; Siblings; Health Disorders; Family and Family Relationships

January 2010
Case

Ledina Lushko: Navigating Health Care Delivery

By: Sachin H Jain, Michael E. Porter, Fatima Akrouh and Carolyn Daly

Ledina Lushko was diagnosed with Adrenal Cortical Carcinoma in 2008 and sought care at a highly regarded medical institution in the United States. This case lays out her journey through the health care system in detail and all of the effort involved in finding... View Details

Keywords: Health; Health Care and Treatment; Health Disorders; Service Delivery; Health Industry; United States