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- 21 May 2020
- News
Primary Care Is Hurting: Why Aren’t Private Insurers Pitching In?
"Behavioral Hazard in Health Insurance"
A fundamental implication of standard moral hazard models is overuse of low-value medical care because copays are lower than costs. In these models, the demand curve alone can be used to make welfare statements, a fact relied on by much empirical work. There is...
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- 20 Sep 2009
- News
Why We Need Universal, Consumer-Driven Health Care
- February 2018
- Case
Aetna and the Transformation of Health Care
By: Rebecca M. Henderson, Russell Eisenstat and Matthew Preble
Mark Bertolini, chairman and CEO of the health insurer Aetna, faces a number of questions as he seeks to transform Aetna from a classic insurance company into a business that will engage much more deeply with its members around their personal health goals. His strategy...
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Keywords:
Health Care and Treatment;
Insurance;
Transformation;
Behavior;
Leading Change;
Strategy;
Insurance Industry;
Insurance Industry;
United States;
Connecticut
Henderson, Rebecca M., Russell Eisenstat, and Matthew Preble. "Aetna and the Transformation of Health Care." Harvard Business School Case 318-048, February 2018.
- 30 Jul 2019
- News
Private Sector Pitfalls in US Health Care
- 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
Dafny, Leemore S., Katherine Ho, and Mauricio Varela. "Let them Have Choice: Gains from Shifting Away from Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance and Toward an Individual Exchange." American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 5, no. 1 (February 2013): 32–58.
- 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.
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Herzlinger, Regina E. "Consumer-Driven Universal Health Care is the Best Solution." In Current Controversies: Health Care, edited by Noel Merino. Farmington Hills, MI: Greenhaven Press, 2010.
- 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...
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Keywords:
Capital Budgeting;
Cost vs Benefits;
Risk Management;
Technology Adoption;
Technological Innovation;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Competitive Strategy;
Health Industry;
Health Industry
McFarlan, F. Warren, Mark Keil, and Mala Kaul. "Telemonitoring at Visiting Nurse Health System." Harvard Business School Case 112-030, September 2011. (Revised January 2012.)
- Article
Do We Spend Too Much on Health Care?
By: Katherine Baicker and Amitabh Chandra
Health system reforms—such as changes in insurance design, patient cost sharing, payment reform, or price regulation—should be judged by whether they move us toward higher-value use of resources, rather than by whether they reduce spending.
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Keywords:
Health Care and Treatment;
Cost;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Value Creation
Baicker, Katherine, and Amitabh Chandra. "Do We Spend Too Much on Health Care?" New England Journal of Medicine 383, no. 7 (August 13, 2020): 605–608.
- September 2015 (Revised February 2023)
- Case
Emdeon's Acquisition of Change Healthcare: Innovating Transparency Solutions for Health Care Consumers
By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Jeet Guram and Aanchal Raj
Case describes acquisition of Change Healthcare, which provides health care cost and quality information, by Emdeon, a health information exchange, and discusses health care transparency. Emdeon is a billion-dollar company that has grown through acquisitions; at its...
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- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Are Consumers the Cure for Broken Health Insurance?
The health insurance system in the United States is broken, and business is paying the price. Employers' insurance premiums reached an estimated $450 billion in 2000, and then...
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by Regina E. Herzlinger
- 31 Oct 2022
- Video
Health Minute: Amitabh Chandra
- Web
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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- 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...
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- 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...
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Keywords:
Insurance;
Health Care and Treatment;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Emerging Markets;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Health Industry;
Health Industry;
New Jersey
Oberholzer-Gee, Felix, Raffaella Sadun, and Richard G. Hamermesh. "Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey - Managing in the Shadow of Health Care Reform." Harvard Business School Case 711-403, March 2011. (Revised March 2011.)
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
services. Health plans will eliminate their restrictive networks, allowing members to choose in a competitive (and regional or even national) marketplace the providers that offer the best value for their...
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- 27 Apr 2009
- News
Health Care Reform that Will Kill the U.S. Economy
- August 2014
- Case
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida, Inc.
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Meng Li
Keywords:
Health;
Health Care Industry;
Health Insurance;
United States;
Health Care and Treatment;
Health Industry;
United States;
Florida
Herzlinger, Regina E., and Meng Li. "Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 315-009, August 2014.