Will Value-based Care Save the Health Care System? March 2, 2018 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East ABC (2036) Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA Value-based health care is one of the most pressing topics in health care finance and policy today. Value-based payment structures are widely touted as critical to…
Will Value-based Care Save the Health Care System? March 2, 2018 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East ABC (2036) Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA Value-based health care is one of the most pressing topics in health care finance and policy today. Value-based payment structures are widely touted as critical to…
Will Value-based Care Save the Health Care System? March 2, 2018 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East ABC (2036) Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA Value-based health care is one of the most pressing topics in health care finance and policy today. Value-based payment structures are widely touted as critical to…
By John Tingle A common theme found in patient safety reports in England going back as far as the year 2000 is that the NHS (National Health Service) is poor at learning lessons from previous adverse health incident reports and of changing practice. The seminal report on patient safety in England, Organisation with a memory…
Will Value-based Care Save the Health Care System? March 2, 2018 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East ABC (2036) Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA Value-based health care is one of the most pressing topics in health care finance and policy today. Value-based payment structures are widely touted as critical to…
By Rachel Sachs Yesterday, Alex Azar was sworn in as the Secretary for the Department of Health and Human Services. A key question is whether Azar will take action against high drug prices, and if so, what he will do. At his confirmation hearing, Azar stated clearly that “drug prices are too high.” And during…
Special guest post by Marissa Lawall Arguably the most popular provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), section 2714 (42 U.S.C. § 300gg-14) provides that individuals may stay on their parent’s insurance plan until they are twenty-six years of age. A 2013 Commonwealth Fund survey found 7.8 young adults gained new or better insurance through this…
By Nicolas Terry and Frank Pasquale Subscribe to TWIHL here! It’s a stormy healthcare landscape out there, so this show is all lightning round. We cover several areas: Litigation: Nic provides the Ariadne’s thread through a labyrinthine pharma-tort judgment out of California. The metal on metal hip litigation has resulted in a big judgment, but medical device regulation is still fundamentally broken. Disgruntled Centene enrollees are suing the ACA insurer of…
By Aobo Dong The passage of the Republican tax reform bill affects the health care industry in ways that might be confusing and unpredictable for tens of millions of Americans. Due to political rhetoric and inaccurate portrayal of the bill, it seems as if the Individual Mandate – an essential element in the ACA –…
By Oliver Kim Last year, I had the good fortune to present at the Petrie-Flom Center’s conference on transparency and I started with an anecdote about a congressman who decided to wait rather than take his son immediately to the emergency room after he injured himself. The congressman assumed his son only had a sprain,…
