Fragmentation of U.S. Health Care

Why is the American health care system so fragmented in the care it gives patients? This title approaches this question and more with a highly interdisciplinary approach. The articles included in the work address legal and regulatory issues, including laws that mandate separate payments for each provider.

Einer Elhauge is the Petrie Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and founding director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics. He served as Chairman of the Antitrust Advisory Committee to the Obama Campaign and member of Various Health Policy Advisory Committees to that campaign. He teaches a gamut of courses ranging from Antitrust, Contracts, Corporations, Legislation, and Health Care Law. Before coming to Harvard, he was a Professor of Law at the University of California at Berkeley, and clerked for Judge Norris on the 9th Circuit and Justice Brennan on the Supreme Court. He received both his A.B. and his J.D. from Harvard, graduating first in his law school class.

Our Fragmented Health Care System: Causes and Solutions
Why We Should Care About Healthcare Fragmentation and How to Fix It - Einer Elhauge
Health Care Fragmentation: We Get What We Pay For -- David Hyman
Organizational Fragmentation and Care Quality in the US Health Care System -- Randal Cebul, James Rebitzer, Lowell J. Taylor, and Mark Votruba
Curing Fragmentation With Integrated Delivery Systems: What They Do, What Has Blocked Them, Why We Need Them, And How To Get There From Here -- Alain Enthoven
Defragmenting Health Care Delivery Through Quality Reporting -- Kristin Madison
Competition Policy and Organizational Fragmentation in Health Care -- Thomas Greaney
Of Doctors and Hospitals: Setting the Analytical Framework for Managing and Regulating the Relationship -- James Blumstein
Property, Privacy and the Pursuit of Integrated Medical Records -- Mark A. Hall
Value-Based Purchasing Opportunities in Traditional Medicare: A Proposal and Legal Evaluation -- Lawrence Casalino and Timothy Jost
A More Equitable and Efficient Approach to Insuring the Uninsurable -- Eric Helland and Jonathan Klick
Ending the Specialty Hospital Wars: A Plea for Pilot Programs as Information-Forcing Regulatory Design -- Frank Pasquale
Fragmentation in Mental Health Benefits and Services: A Preliminary Examination into Consumption and Outcomes -- Barak Richman, Dan Grossman, and Frank Sloan
From Visible Harm to Relative Risk: Overcoming Fragmented Pharmacovigilance? -- Arthur Daemmrich
The US Healthcare System: A Product of American History and Values -- David Johnson and Nancy Kane
American Health Care Policy and Politics: Is Fragmentation a Helpful Category for Understanding Health Reform Experience and Prospects? -- Theodore Marmor