McNeil Family Professor of Health Care Policy, Ron C. Kessler, PhD, was featured on the National Academy of Sciences’ Facebook page for World Mental Health Day.
Americans extol price shopping for health care as a prudent idea, yet few actually do it even when given the means to, according to the findings of two separate studies led by investigators at Harvard Medical School.
In light of the new Senate bill (also known as the Better Care Reconciliation Act), which fundamentally alters the way that Medicaid is funded and run, David Grabowski highlights the critical importance of the government program.
Zirui Song, who has been a part of the Harvard community for over a decade, brings his work on health care financing, quality and insurance markets to HCP as an assistant professor of health care policy on July 1, 2017.
Medicare policies governing cancer patients’ end-of-life care are based on generalized statistics—such as average survival time and treatment costs—that often fail to reflect the variety of experiences across patient subpopulations, as well as among individual patients according to a new study led by Harvard Medical School researchers, published in the July issue of the journal Health Affairs.
Sharon-Lise Normand, co-chair of a National Academies of Science panel to study monitoring of motor carriers in the United States, briefed congressional staff on June 26, 2017.
In the first June 2017 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, Joseph Newhouse and Sharon-Lise Normandpublished a review of health policy trialsas part of the Journal’s series involving The Changing Face of Clinical Trials.
