About the University of Pennsylvania Health System Center for Innovation in Health Care Financing
The UPHS Center for Innovation in Health Care Financing is a partnership between the University of Pennsylvania Health System and LDI CHIBE.
Combining the expertise of faculty members at Penn's Perelman School of Medicine and The Wharton School, members will test how insights from behavioral economics and health economics can improve patient health and reduce the rate of growth in health care costs. Among the issues to be studied are: incentives to patients and health care providers for improving chronic disease management; the ways health-related decisions are influenced by how choices are presented; incentives for health care providers to reduce preventable readmissions; and defaults in improving the efficiency of health care delivery, e.g., requiring patients to "opt out" of certain pre-determined choices.
UPHS Center Highlights
"Your Big Ideas Challenge" Yields Innovative Ideas From Penn Staff
Source: MedCity News, April 23, 2012, LDI Health Economist, April 25, 2012
Kevin Mahoney's "Big Ideas Challenge" sought ideas for innovative ways to improve patient care from Penn staff. Ten…
Technology to Transform Medicine
Source: AAMC Reporter, April 2012
In an interview with the AAMC Reporter about his book "Smart Medicine," Bill Hanson discusses how technological advances make health care more efficient and less…
Challenges Ahead: Planning to Meet Health Care Needs
Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer, September 28, 2011
In 2014, healthcare reforms will provide millions of new patients with insurance through Medicaid, yet obstacles to medical care will likely remain. Pilot research…
Reject Soda Industry-Funded Anti-obesity Program
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer, September 20, 2011
In an op-ed for the Philadelphia Inquirer, David Grande voiced support for Mayor Nutter in his rejection of an anti-obesity program funded by soda manufacturers.…
UPHS and CHIBE Partner on New Center
Sources: Penn Medicine Press Release, August 18, 2011; The Daily Pennsylvanian, September 19, 2011; University of Pennsylvania Almanac, November 1, 2011
The University of Pennsylvania Health System Center for…
UPHS Center Leadership
Kevin Volpp, Director
Kevin Mahoney, Co-Director
Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
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