On March 2, 2017, Bruce Landon and Michael McWilliams published Perspective pieces in the New England Journal of Medicine that tackle payment systems in health care—specifically, problems inherent in current thinking about health care spending, and different ways of looking at the issues.
Michael Chernew, guest lecturer at the Essentials of the Profession class, is speaking animatedly to two hundred medical and dental students about health insurance benefit design, using the experiences of Harvard post-docs as an example.
Opioid use is rising in the United States, and patients who receive treatment from doctors prescribing more of it are 30 percent more likely to become long-term opioid users, according to new research from Anupam Jena and coauthors.
The United States is in the grip of an opioid epidemic that has been aggravated by expanded use of the drug fentanyl—an extremely potent, unregulated drug often added to heroin, ecstasy, and fake OxyContin.
The American Heart Association’s Council on Quality of Care and Outcomes Research has awarded Sharon-Lise Normand the Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award, which will be presented at their annual meeting in April 2017.
Mental health care has often been covered poorly under private health insurance—but, according to Haiden Huskamp and coauthors in an article in Health Affairs, the payment burden on consumers may be lifting.
Anupam Jena and coauthors published a research letter in JAMA Internal Medicine that identified the characteristics of those most at risk of losing coverage with repeal of the Affordable Care Act.
Tom McGuire with long-time collaborator Jacob Glazer has published a new book titled Models of Health Plan Payment and Quality Reporting that provides a comprehensive look at the research areas of optimal risk adjustment and optimal quality reporting.
