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- 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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- 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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- 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
- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
which was injected into patients’ eyes post cataract surgery, with the aim of replacing a complex regimen of prescription eye drops. After a successful launch of the compounded medication, Imprimis ran into complications when Medicare...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
years for these reductions to have a material impact on a city's unfunded liabilities. In fact, many cities are downsizing employment, rather than hiring new workers. Cities could require all public employee retirees to join Medicare when...
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- 05 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 5
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/811055-PDF-ENG Caterpillar, Inc. (A) David F. HawkinsHarvard Business School Case 111-031 2010 Healthcare Reform Act eliminates Medicare Part D subsidy and Caterpillar recognizes a $100 million...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling
focuses almost entirely on disease care to keep people alive, but does very little to enable Americans to live healthy lives. The longer people live in their disease-prone years, the more they cost Medicare. AHCA doesn't really address these challenges. Unless we face...
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- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
at the US Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The pandemic has made it clear that this must change. Richard Hamermesh (@RHamermesh) is a Baker Foundation Professor of Management Practice and...
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by Danielle Kost
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
of M&A activity must take place; mandatory public reporting must be required documenting experience and outcome information based on defined standards (just as the SEC requires reporting of certain information); and Medicare pricing...
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- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
scale their company and cut waste in Medicare spending. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/817029-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 516-087 OPET: Precision Marketing in Uncertain Times During Timucin Guler’s...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
about the causes of regional variations in health care expenditures. Using vignettes from patient and physician surveys linked to fee-for-service Medicare expenditures, this study asks whether patient demand-side factors or physician...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
operating margin, and was operating at capacity in many areas, with average inpatient bed occupancy approaching 90%, versus the national average of 68%. Despite its growth, VUMC was facing a revenue shortfall of $250 million over the next two years as more patients...
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Sean Silverthorne