Jeff Levin-Scherz, MD MBA FACP
Jeff Levin-Scherz is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health. He is currently a managing director and the Population Health Leader of Willis Towers Watson Health and Benefits, North America. He has served in a variety of health care executive positions, including Chief Medical Officer (Harvard Vanguard, Partners Community HealthCare, Inc and One Medical Group), Vice President of Tufts Health Plan and President of the Mount Auburn Cambridge Independent Practice Association. He has a BA and MD from Boston University and an MBA from Columbia University.
Selected Presentations
- Funding the Fight Against Obesity: How Can We Pay for Obesity Care? American Journal of Managed Care and University Hospital Center for Integrated and Novel Approaches in Vascular and Metabolic Disease Cleveland, OH June, 2024
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Resources Pittsburgh Chapter of the International Society of Certified Employee Benefit Specialists, December, 2023
- Call to Action: Employers should demand higher quality maternity care, and Innovative Approaches to Maternity Care National Business Group on Health, Washington, DC January, 2020
- New Approaches to Low Wage Workers, Catalyze Payment Reform Webinar, September, 2017
- Managing Health Care Costs - 2018 final class slides HPM 235 Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health
- Driving Consumers to High Value Providers, Connecticut Institute for Joint Replacement, Connecticut Health Council, and Connecticut Business Group on Health. West Hartford, CT, December 2017
- The Future of Health Care Reform and Managing Health Care Costs, February, Wharton, 2017
- Behavioral Economics Can Improve Health World Economic Forum, Davos Switzerland, 2017
- 2016 Haddad Lecture: Employer sponsored health insurance and low wage workers Massachusetts General Hospital, 2016
- Rock Health Boot Camp Boston, 2013
- Employer Efforts to Curtail Costs, and Implications for Providers June, 2011
- Accountable Care Organizations March, 2011
- Managing Health Care Costs: 2010 Final Class Slides, December, 2010
- Employers and Health Care Management in the United States, September, 2010
- Implications of Health Care Reform, HFMA October, 2010
- Patients, Physicians and the Internet, Center For IT Leadership, Boston May, 2009
- Quality and Cost and Variation, Wharton, February, 09
- Provider Perspective on Pay for Performance (Presentation to UK NHS, February, 2009)
- Behavioral Economics and Health Policy (Harvard School of Public Health, November, 2008)
- The Role of Payment Reform in a Multi-Year Health Care Transformation in Massachusetts, April 2008, Washington DC Health Industry Forum
- Innovation in Health Care: Provider Perspective (UK NHS, 4/08)
- Controversies in Transparency and Pay for Performance (Singapore, October, 2007)
- New Paradigm for Public Quality Reporting (Singapore, October, 2007)
- Five Problems, and Leadership to Address Them (Harvard Business School Publications, June, 2006
- Communicating Health Care Quality To Consumers, March 2004 Managed Care Executive Group, Florida
- Physician Compensation and the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics (2003, Web conference)
- Cooking the Books: Evaluation of Disease Management Programs, San Francisco, 2003
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Jeff's Blogs
- Employer Coverage (2022- current)
- Managing Health Care Costs (2009-2021)
- 2Wheels2Laos (2010 bike trip to Luong Prabang)
- 2wheels2 (Bike trips to Girona, Spain (2014) and Sweden and Denmark (2016)
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Link to my Substack newsletter, Employer Coverage
Curriculum Vitae and Bio
Course Syllabus
- 2008 HPM 235 Course Syllabus
- 2009 HPM 235 Course Syllabus
- 2010 HPM 235 Class Syllabus
- HCM 755 Syllabus (Provider Payment)
- 2011 HPM 235 Syllabus
- HCM 755: 2012 Syllabus
- HPM 235 2012 syllabus
- HPM 235 2013 Syllabus
- HCM 755 2013-14 Syllabus
- HCM 755 2014-15 Syllabus
- HPM235 2014 Syllabus
- HPM235 2015 Syllabus
- HPM235 2016 Syllabus
- HCM755 2016-7 Syllabus
- HCM 755 2017-18 Syllabus
- HPM 235 2018 Syllabus
- HPM 235 2019 Syllabus
- HPM 235 2020 Syllabus
- HPM235 2021 Syllabus
- HCM755 2021-2 Syllabus
- HPM235 2022 Syllabus
Documents for HPM 235
- 2014 Commercial Actuarial
- Am College of Physicians: Impending Collapse of Primary Care January, 2006
- Captive Review: Health Care Reform Dec, 2010
- Chemotherapy Paclitaxel
- Disease Management Will Suffer if Providers Remain on the Sidelines DM August 2005
- Jeff's Perspective on Review Session Questions
- Prevention and Wellness, 2013
- Statin NNT NNH
- WHO UK Finance
- Ten Myths (7-20-19 - prepublication copy- please do not cite)
- Survey for HPM 235
2020 Publications (COVID-focused)
- Levin-Scherz, J and Stone, J "Charting a New Course: Implications of the Pandemic for Health Plan Sponsors" Benefits Magazine, November 2021 Link
- Levin-Scherz, J and Allen, D "8 Questions Employers Should Ask About Coronavirus" Harvard Business Review digital publication March 2, 2020 https://hbr.org/2020/03/8-questions-employers-should-ask-about-coronavirus
- Levin-Scherz, J "Federal action can limit impact of COVID-19 costs on American businesses and workers" The Hill, April 13, 2020 https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/492551-federal-action-can-limit-impact-of-covid-19-costs-on-american-businesses
- McCann, R and Levin-Scherz, J “Employers can address the racial disparities exposed by COVID-19” Willis Towers Watson, April, 2020
- https://www.willistowerswatson.com/en-US/Insights/2020/04/employers-can-address-the-racial-disparities-exposed-by-covid-19
- Bremen, J, Jesuthasan, R, Levin-Scherz, J "Five Ways COVID-19 Will Forever Change Work" World at Work, May 15, 2020 https://worldatwork.org/workspan/articles/five-ways-covid-19-will-forever-change-work
- Levin-Scherz, J and Allen, D "8 Questions Employers Should Ask About Reopening" Harvard Business Review digital publication May 28, 2020 https://hbr.org/2020/05/8-questions-employers-should-ask-about-reopening
- Levin-Scherz, J, Noblick, J and Jones, JH, "How behavioral economics can help employers respond to COVID-19" Human Resources Executive, May, 2020 https://hrexecutive.com/how-behavioral-economics-can-help-employers-respond-to-covid-19/
- Levin-Scherz, J, Jesuthasan, R, Bremen, J “Should CEOs be in the Office Now?” Chief Executive Magazine, June 18, 2020 https://chiefexecutive.net/should-ceos-be-in-the-office-now/
- Levin-Scherz, J and Parson, T "The Paradox of Medical Costs During the Pandemic" Econofact.org, June 30, 2020 https://econofact.org/the-paradox-of-medical-costs-during-the-pandemic
- Levin-Scherz, J "The federal government must pay for distribution of the COVID vaccine" The Hill, July 20, 2020 https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/508118-the-federal-government-must-pay-for-distribution-of-the-covid-vaccine
Complete list to April, 2023 at this link
NEW Levin-Scherz, J and Sell Reagan, C "Confronting the Cost of Obesity Drugs" Benefits Magazine, May/June, 2024 LINK
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