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- 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...
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- April 24, 2023
- Article
In the COVID Era, Why Corporate Benefits Demand CEO/CFO Leadership
The expectation that employers provide their employees’ health benefits has been around since World War II. Unfortunately, although today’s employees expect employers to treat them as individuals, ease their experiences, prioritize their wellbeing, and control cost,...
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Keywords:
COVID;
COVID-19 Pandemic;
CEO;
Leadership;
Health Insurance;
Benefits;
CFO;
Compensation and Benefits
Herzlinger, Regina E. "In the COVID Era, Why Corporate Benefits Demand CEO/CFO Leadership." CMR Insights (April 24, 2023).
- 08 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care
reactor" in accelerating the rise in health-care costs. Why is this system such a problem? A: By some estimates, 50 percent of all health care is driven by physician and hospital supply, not by patients' needs. Today's doctors work in a...
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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...
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- July 1, 2018
- Editorial
The IRS Can Save American Health Care: Letting Workers Spend Pretax Dollars on Insurance Would Do a Lot—Without Requiring Congress to Act
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Joel Klein
Herzlinger, Regina E., and Joel Klein. "The IRS Can Save American Health Care: Letting Workers Spend Pretax Dollars on Insurance Would Do a Lot—Without Requiring Congress to Act." Wall Street Journal (online) (July 1, 2018).
- 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...
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- 27 Apr 2009
- News
Health Care Reform that Will Kill the U.S. Economy
- 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...
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- 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,...
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Porter, Michael E., and Jennifer F Baron. "Moving to Universal Coverage: Health Care Reform in Massachusetts." Harvard Business School Case 712-466, February 2012. (Revised June 2013.)
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...
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- 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...
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Keywords:
Economic Sectors;
Financing and Loans;
Insurance;
Industry Structures;
Health Industry;
Health Industry;
United States
Herzlinger, Regina E., and Jeff Grahling. "Note on Financing of the U.S. Health Care Sector." Harvard Business School Background Note 304-039, August 2003. (Revised September 2008.)
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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,...
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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.
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Academics - Health Care
This course is the premier value-based health care course geared toward executive management and physician leaders from health care delivery organizations, health View Details
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Strategy for Health Care Delivery—Virtual
collaborate with health care institutions, or offer on-site health services or retail health care (e.g., Minute Clinic) as part of their business model Senior executives from...
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Careers - Health Care
shared. Biotech-Pharma Industry Week Health Care Investing Week Digital Health Industry Week Medtech Industry Week Health Insurance Industry Week...
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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
outcomes, you are not feeding the entire human being." —Francis Storrs Prescription: Integrate Preventive Care and Payment In the shifting scrimmage of US health care, the goals of health care 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...
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Narrow Networks on the Health Insurance Exchanges: What Do They Look Like and How Do They Affect Pricing? A Case Study of Texas
By: Leemore S. Dafny, Igal Hendel and Nathan Wilson
Dafny, Leemore S., Igal Hendel, and Nathan Wilson. "Narrow Networks on the Health Insurance Exchanges: What Do They Look Like and How Do They Affect Pricing? A Case Study of Texas." American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings 105, no. 5 (May 2015): 110–114.
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
the needs of human beings, not around the needs of the status quo, didn't happen. Consumer-Driven Health Care was another book that I wrote to help change the demand for health care, to get innovation in the...
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