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Lifelong Learning Faculty Seminars: Additional Reading
Wednesday, April 4th, 2007
Web Seminar"Cost Conscious Health Insurance Coverage: A Focus on Treatment Cost and Effectiveness"
Alan M. Garber, Professor of Economics (by courtesy), Henry J. Kaiser Jr.Professor and Professor of Medicine, Economics, and of Heath Research and Policy Senior Fellow (by courtesy)
Largely overlooked in debates about health care reform are practical strategies to reduce the cost of providing health insurance. The principal mechanisms for reducing the level and rate of growth of health care expenditures include reductions in reimbursement rates, managed care, increased cost sharing by patients, and coverage policy. An individual's policy coverage determines which medical products and services are eligible for reimbursement by health insurance. Coverage policy for both commercial health plans and Medicare is primarily determined by evidence of effectiveness of products and services.
Selected Articles
Additional reading material has been selected by Jackson Library Staff. Due to contractual arrangements, access to some articles may be restricted to the Stanford community, and subscribers of the "Library Databases" offered through the GSB Alumni's Lifelong Learning Program. Inclusion below does not imply University endorsement of the ideas expressed.
Health care costs likely to keep rising. San Francisco Chronicle, Feb. 23, 2007
Several reports released this week put a spotlight on rapidly rising health care costs, suggesting they will keep climbing in the foreseeable future.
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Value-Based Insurance Design. Health Affairs, Jan. 2007
By abandoning the archaic principle that all services must cost the same for all patients, we can move to a high-value health system.
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PDF 111KB]
The wage squeeze and higher health care costs. Economic Policy Institute, Jan, 27, 2007
Despite the fact that 2005 marked the fourth year of an economic expansion characterized by strong productivity growth, the inflation-adjusted wages of most workers' fell last year. Some have stated that the reason for this unsettling result is that increasing health care costs are squeezing wage growth.
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Cost-Effectiveness And Evidence Evaluation As Criteria For Coverage Policy.
Health Affairs, May 2004
Cost-effectiveness analysis could shift from being an academic curiosity to an essential tool for health care decision making.
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Consequences Of Health Trends And Medical Innovation For the Future Elderly, Health Affairs, Sept. 2005
When demographic trends temper the optimism of biomedical advances, how will tomorrow's elderly fare?
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[ PDF 138KB]
Medical Innovation Promises & Pitfalls. The Brookings Review, Winter 2003
Technological innovation is also the major source of increases in real per capita medical spending in the United States.
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Evidence-Based Coverage Policy. Health Affairs, Sept/Oct 2001
Insurers can borrow from research into medical effectiveness to
help them allocate medical resources wisely.
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Selected Books
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Changing the U.S. Health Care System: Key Issues in Health Zervices Policy and Management |
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Crisis of abundance: Rethinking How We Pay for Health Care |
Selected Websites
McKinsey Quarterly-Health Care
