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- 11 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Germany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug Prices
the prices of more than 100 medications by 32 percent, on average, in June and early July. The Senate has been debating a bipartisan proposal to limit seniors’ out-of-pocket costs and curb price increases, while House leaders finalize a bill that would let View Details
- 27 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments
approximately $8 trillion. As the ratio of retired people receiving benefits to working people paying into the system increases, there will be an ever-increasing deficit confronting the government. Even more problematic is the fact the View Details
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- 08 Apr 2011
- News
Management Matters In Health Care, Too
results in one in five Medicare patients who are admitted to the hospital ending up back in the hospital in less than a month after discharge. “The incentives are all wrong,” he added. “No one gets paid to do follow-up care.” Amid all the...
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- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
about the causes of regional variations in health care expenditures. We use vignettes from patient and physician surveys linked to fee-for-service Medicare expenditures to test whether patient demand-side factors or physician supply-side...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Clubs Hopping: A Healthy Dialogue
from Nebraska and former US Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services] and Don Berwick [former administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and current Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate] said that our health...
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- 27 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Following Best Business Practices Can Improve Health Care
like? Doesn’t sound possible, but South African company Vitality is doing just that. How Cost Accounting is Improving Healthcare in Rural HaitiWhat happened when a pioneering cost accounting system examined wide variances in Haiti's health delivery costs. View Details
- 30 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Under a Research Microscope
system had been brought to the table. That's all changing now, and the major players seem increasingly receptive to rethinking the system. He points to the Medicare Drug Prescription Plan, launched in 2006, as an example. Twenty years...
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- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Business Case for Diabetes Disease Management
whether it would be better economically to treat such a chronic disease on "one system" or just focus on the individual elements of diabetes. Some participants suggested that Medicare and society might have more of a stake in...
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- 01 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care
the White House. They've had conversations with multiple officials at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Most recently, Feeley sat down with US Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Mathews Burwell—who published...
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- 29 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records
in information analytics, attempting to get their arms around the wide array of patient data. Government incentives are helping the push. In 2011, the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services established incentives for doctors'...
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- 22 Jan 2018
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
our engineers. It’s also been nice to hear from so many of our advisors, investors, and alma maters, including HBS, who have reached out since the announcement.” Can you tell us about your current work? Guram: “I advise Seema Verma, the administrator, or head, of the...
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VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Medical Center Boston Children’s Hospital Brigham & Women’s Hospital Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Chicago Prostate Center Connecticut Joint Replacement Institute Intermountain Healthcare Johns Hopkins Joslin Diabetes Center...
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- 29 May 2019
- News
HBS Career Coaches Hit the Road to Serve Alumni
us.” One solution in healthcare, says Deffarges, would be to expand Medicare so that people of all ages can enroll through an age-tiered process. “Let’s take what works and offer it to everyone.” Approaching these problems from the bottom...
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Margie Kelley
- 03 Sep 2020
- Op-Ed
Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SEC
Related Reading Medicare for All or Public Option: Can Either Heal Health Care? It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees Love in the Office Is Wonderful. Except for CEOs. Share your insights below.
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- 15 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Occupy Wall Street Protestors Have a Point
capital and an end to predatory lending practices? Organizations lament sky-rocketing health care costs, but why is there such a limited effort to organize preventative care? Cutting Medicare will not stop the epidemic of obesity. The...
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- 14 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery
When health insurer Cigna Corp. appeared in front of a judge for allegedly misleading shareholders on Medicare regulations this spring, plaintiffs thought they had a strong case. After all, Cigna had published its own document titled...
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by Michael Blanding
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Capitalism’s New Agenda
limited effort to organize preventative care? Cutting Medicare will not stop the epidemic of obesity. The market system cannot work if its consequences are seen to be unfair, in the sense that its benefits are not distributed widely. That...
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- 07 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
Electronic Health Records Were Supposed to Cut Medical Costs. They Haven't.
advocates a bundled payment system, where there is one negotiated price for a specific condition, covering everything from the patient's copay to any medication needed during the procedure. Medicare and large private employers General...
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- 04 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon
Medicare recipients who are admitted to a hospital end up back at the hospital in less than a month. Studies have shown that the frequency of those repeat stays could be reduced drastically if a doctor or nurse followed up with patients a...
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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Doctor Is In
government's administrative costs for Medicare are only about 5 percent. And I'm not sure that untrained consumers can ever become sophisticated enough to make truly informed choices about their medical needs, a scenario that some tout as...
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