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Consumer-Driven Health Care: Implications for Providers, Payers, and Policy-Makers 1st Edition
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This comprehensive resource includes the most important thinkingon the topic and compelling case studies of consumer-driven healthcare (CDHC) in action, here and abroad, including newconsumer-driven intermediaries for information and support; typesof insurance plans; focused factories for delivering health care;personalized drugs and devices; and government roles.
- ISBN-100787952583
- ISBN-13978-0787952587
- Edition1st
- PublisherJossey-Bass
- Publication dateApril 9, 2004
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions7 x 2.25 x 9.75 inches
- Print length978 pages
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From The New England Journal of Medicine
Copyright © 2004 Massachusetts Medical Society. All rights reserved. The New England Journal of Medicine is a registered trademark of the MMS.
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--Barbara Bigelow, Ph.D., co-editor, Health Care ManagementReview, professor of management, Clark University GraduateSchool of Management
"Regina Herzlinger has a formidable reputation as an expert onreforming health care. There are lessons here for all of us whocare about reforming our health systems to make them better."
--David Willets, MP, Shadow Work and Pensions Secretaryand member of Parliament , UK.
"This book is a must-read for anyone who wants to know why theAmerican model of health insurance benefits that has been aroundfor about 50 years is all washed up, and what is most likely toreplace it."
--Roger Feldman, Blue Cross Professor of Health Insurance,University of Minnesota
"No other author in the health field could write a book likeConsumer-Driven Health Care, or make the kind of impact that ReginaHerzlinger can make on America's $1.5 trillion health careindustry. As one of the health field's most respectedeconomists and business strategists, Professor Herzlinger canpersuade corporate CEOs, Washington policymakers, benefitsadministrators, and hospital executives to reshape their strategybased on a market run by consumers. Remarkably, for an academic,she can write. This book translates health economics into simpleEnglish, reducing the "mystery-inside-a-conundrum"field into everyday transactions like selecting a health plan thatany health care consumer can recognize. Consumer-Driven HealthCare will be a top candidate for health care's 'book ofthe year.'"
--Russell C. Coile, Jr., consultant, editor, RussCoile's Health Trends, and author, Competing OnExcellence
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―Barbara Bigelow, Ph.D., co-editor, Health Care Management Review, professor of management, Clark University Graduate School of Management
"Regina Herzlinger has a formidable reputation as an expert on reforming health care. There are lessons here for all of us who care about reforming our health systems to make them better."
―David Willets, MP, Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary and member of Parliament , UK.
"This book is a must-read for anyone who wants to know why the American model of health insurance benefits that has been around for about 50 years is all washed up, and what is most likely to replace it."
―Roger Feldman, Blue Cross Professor of Health Insurance, University of Minnesota
"No other author in the health field could write a book like Consumer-Driven Health Care, or make the kind of impact that Regina Herzlinger can make on America’s $1.5 trillion health care industry. As one of the health field’s most respected economists and business strategists, Professor Herzlinger can persuade corporate CEOs, Washington policymakers, benefits administrators, and hospital executives to reshape their strategy based on a market run by consumers. Remarkably, for an academic, she can write. This book translates health economics into simple English, reducing the “mystery-inside-a-conundrum” field into everyday transactions like selecting a health plan that any health care consumer can recognize. Consumer-Driven Health Care will be a top candidate for health care’s 'book of the year.'"
―Russell C. Coile, Jr., consultant, editor, Russ Coile’s Health Trends, and author, Competing On Excellence
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"Regina Herzlinger has a formidable reputation as an expert on reforming health care. There are lessons here for all of us who care about reforming our health systems to make them better."--David Willets, MP, Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary and member of Parliament , UK.
"This book is a must-read for anyone who wants to know why the American model of health insurance benefits that has been around for about 50 years is all washed up, and what is most likely to replace it."--Roger Feldman, Blue Cross Professor of Health Insurance, University of Minnesota
"No other author in the health field could write a book like Consumer-Driven Health Care, or make the kind of impact that Regina Herzlinger can make on America’s $1.5 trillion health care industry. As one of the health field’s most respected economists and business strategists, Professor Herzlinger can persuade corporate CEOs, Washington policymakers, benefits administrators, and hospital executives to reshape their strategy based on a market run by consumers. Remarkably, for an academic, she can write. This book translates health economics into simple English, reducing the “mystery-inside-a-conundrum” field into everyday transactions like selecting a health plan that any health care consumer can recognize. Consumer-Driven Health Care will be a top candidate for health care’s 'book of the year.' " --Russell C. Coile, Jr., consultant, editor, Russ Coile’s Health Trends, and author, Competing On Excellence
From the Back Cover
Professor Herzlinger documents how the consumer-driven health care movement is being implemented and its impact on insurers, providers, new intermediaries, and governments. With additional contributions by health care's leading strategists, innovators, regulators and scholars, Consumer-Driven Health Care presents a compelling vision of a health care system built to satisfy the people it serves.
"Professor Herzlinger provides a compelling argument for consumer-driven health care. The health care system has been marked for decades with rising costs and consumer dissatisfaction. Professor Herzlinger challenges the reader to look beyond solutions that are based on what consumers should want to solutions that give consumers what they want."
–Barbara Bigelow, Ph.D., Co-Editor, Health Care Management Review, Professor of Management, Clark University Graduate School of Management
"Regina Herzlinger has a formidable reputation as an expert on reforming health care. There are lessons here for all of us who care about reforming our health systems to make them better."
–David Willets, MP, Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary and Member of Parliament , UK
"This book is a must-read for anyone who wants to know why the American model of health insurance benefits that has been around for about 50 years is all washed up, and what is most likely to replace it."
–Roger Feldman, Blue Cross Professor of Health Insurance, University of Minnesota
"Professor Herzlinger can persuade corporate CEOs, Washington policymakers, benefits administrators, and hospital executives to reshape their strategy based on a market run by consumers. This book translates health economics into simple English, reducing the "mystery-inside-a-conundrum" field into everyday transactions like selecting a health plan that any health care consumer can recognize. Consumer-Driven Health Care will be a top candidate for health care's 'book of the year.' "
–Russell C. Coile, Jr., consultant, editor, Russ Coile's Health Trends, and author, Competing On Excellence (2003)
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- Publisher : Jossey-Bass; 1st edition (April 9, 2004)
- Language : English
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- Dimensions : 7 x 2.25 x 9.75 inches
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In the first part of her new 900-page book, Dr. Herzlinger makes a convincing case about how and why health care is broken and why market-based solutions - which empower consumers - are best. She restates the case she made in Market-Driven Health Care for putting consumers directly in charge of their own decisions (picking insurance plans, making medical decisions).
Through transparency of information, a realignment of incentives, and new tools to support decision-making by patients, the consumer-driven model gives individuals a clear stake in their own health care. While not unique to other parts of the US economy, the approach is a radical departure for the $1.7 trillion health care market. As Dr. Herzlinger makes clear in her energetic analysis, the absence of these proven market-based tools goes a long to explain why health care became our most inefficient, outdated, and error-prone industry.
The second part - about 80 percent of the book - is a collection of 73 think pieces written by 92 other experts. With short introductions by Dr. Herzlinger, these articles serve as a useful initial knowledge base for a growing field with an uncertain future.
The book has its limitations. For example, Dr. Herzlinger's case for the consumer-driven model fails to address the Medicare and Medicaid systems. It also leaves a variety of practical transition and execution issues unaddressed, although these are beyond the purpose of this volume. Because articles were written several years ago as part of a conference and most of the writers lack purchaser-side experience, the book also does not deal with the growing list of market-based reforms underway by large employers and innovative health plans.
In addition, since the field is still in its infancy, Dr. Herzlinger is a business researcher, and the contributors are largely wide-eyed entrepreneurs, the book will likely frustrate health policy wonks and others stuck in the technical minutia and ideological fights that characterize most health care discussions. But then, that's just as well. Too often analysts forget that health care is a business and operates as a market, albeit a flawed one insulated from tools proven to drive quality and efficiency. And we need all the wide-eyed, out-of-the-box thinking we can get.
Dr. Herzlinger also has her detractors. It reminds me of the old joke that there are two kinds of people in the world: people who like Wayne Newton and people who don't. Well, it seems that health care wonkdom is divided by those who like Reggie Herzlinger's ideas and those who don't. However, given the massive problems in American health care, her plain-spoken, business-savvy contributions remain as useful as they are provocative.
For a good primer on consumer-driven health care, I recommend you start with Let's Put Consumers in Charge of Health Care, a concise article by Dr. Herzlinger in Harvard Business Review (July 2002 issue). Available here on Amazon ($7, PDF).
Most health care costs are incurred by people suffering from chronic diseases. Unfortunately, the current insurance system (20% enrollee turnover each year) discourages extensive preventive efforts - multi-year insurance policies are needed. Another problem is that insurers and providers sometimes are rewarded for acting in ways that increase work-time loss - eg. preferring open gall bladder operations (less medical cost) with longer away-from-work recovery times. Still another problem is that innovative providers that improve outcomes are likely to end up getting less reimbursement; instead, rewards go to mergers creating larger networks that can resist pressure for discounts.
Voluntary compilation of outcomes data efforts have not worked - eg. there is little/no correlation between JCAHO ratings and patient outcomes, while the Cleveland area effort was destroyed when the major participant dropped out over upsetness over the results. Regardless, there is a significant problem with risk-adjustment - it is very sensitive to coding thoroughness and exaggeration.
All good points, and I especially agree with her emphasis on focused-factories and as much consumer-available information as possible. However, the bulk of "Consumer-Driven Health Care" is taken up with low-value brief writings from supporters attending a conference organized on the topic. Additionally, Herzlinger under-emphasizes the health care waste attributable to assessing enrollee health, individual underwriting, and patrolling enrollee selection of providers and their subsequent care. Herzlinger's risk-adjusted premiums would likely acerbate the debate and costs.
A much simpler basis for revising our broken health care system exists - a national system such as in Canada, England, France, etc.




