The legal battle over health care reform
March 16, 2012 From March 26-28, 2012, the Supreme Court will hear challenges to the constitutionality of the landmark health care reform law known as the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Read how Harvard School of Public Health researchers…
Profs. Rosenthal, Brennan named to national commission on physician payment reform
Two HSPH faculty members have been appointed to the new National Commission on Physician Payment Reform, sponsored by the Society for General Internal Medicine (SGIM). Meredith B. Rosenthal, professor of health economics and policy, and [[Troyen Brennan]], adjunct…
HSPH authors contribute five papers to latest issue of Health Affairs
The November 2011 issue of Health Affairs, which examines synergies among community development, health care, and public health, includes five papers by HSPH authors. HSPH Professors [[Arnold Epstein]] and [[Katherine Swartz]] and lead author [[Benjamin Sommers]], assistant professor…
HSPH profs offer new recipes for addressing U.S. obesity epidemic
HSPH Prof. Walter Willett renews his criticism that the healthy eating recommendations in the U.S. Dietary Guidelines—source of the well-known food pyramid and the new MyPlate icon—don’t go far enough in a Perspective article in the October 27,…
Rosenthal's promotion to Professor celebrated at HSPH Symposium
October 20, 2011 -- Health economics may not be the most glamorous specialty in public health, Dean for Academic Affairs [[David Hunter]] told an HSPH audience gathered to celebrate health economist Meredith B. Rosenthal’s promotion to full professor, but work…
Health reform news: accountable care organizations offer promise for cost-savings, greater efficiency
Accountable care organizations (ACOs), legal partnerships between doctors and hospitals that provide financial incentives to providers for more efficient and better care, will be part of Medicare by 2012 and are attracting wider interest among commercial payers and…
HSPH health policy experts discuss implications of proposed Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Tufts Health Plan merger
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Tufts Health Plan, Massachusetts’ second and third largest health plans, are exploring a merger that would help them to compete against market leader Blue Cross Blue Shield, it was announced on January 25.…
Health care law: New regulations kick in
Meredith Rosenthal, associate professor of health economics and policy at HSPH, was interviewed Sept. 24, 2010, by Fox25 Morning News in Boston about what changes will result from the first wave of the new federal health care regulations…
Talking health care reform: A conversation with Meredith Rosenthal
[ Spring/Summer 2010 ] On March 21, 2010, the United States House of Representatives passed the biggest expansion of federal health care guarantees since the enactment of Medicare and Medicaid more than four decades earlier. Soon after, the Review caught up with…
Employer health incentives
[Winter 2009] Employee wellness programs prod workers to adopt healthy lifestyles A Massachusetts man lost his job at a Scotts Miracle-Gro lawn and garden center in 2006 when a routine drug test came back positive. The finding: nicotine.…