Why Not Better and Cheaper?

James B. Rebitzer is the Peter and Deborah Wexler Professor of Management at Boston University's Questrom School of Business where he was founding chair of the department of Markets, Public Policy, and Law. Formerly, he was the Mannix Professor of Healthcare Finance and Economics and Chair of the Economics Department at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western University. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). He has received The Health Care Research Award from the National Institute of Health Care Management and the Kenneth J. Arrow Award from the International Health Economics Association. Robert S. Rebitzer is a senior advisor at Manatt Health and a Distinguished Career Institute Fellow at Stanford University. Formerly, he was a partner in the healthcare strategy practice of Accenture and a Vice President of UnitedHealth Group. He has also served as an advisor to the California Healthcare Foundation and to Stanford University's Clinical Excellence Research Center. He is currently chairman of the board of El Camino Health System.

Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview
Chapter 2: Economically Valuable Innovation
Chapter 3: Missing Innovations
Chapter 4: Shared Savings
Chapter 5: Beyond Financial Incentives
Chapter 6: Competition, Innovation, and Disruption
Chapter 7: Dilemmas and Opportunities
Appendix 1: Does Innovation Respond to Expected Profits?
Appendix 2: Incentives Leading to Overlooked Innovations Outside of Healthcare
Acknowledgments
References
Index