Uwe Ernst Reinhardt was a professor of political economy at Princeton University and held several positions in the healthcare industry.
21 Facts About Uwe Reinhardt
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Uwe Reinhardt was born 1937 in Osnabruck, Germany, and later emigrated to Canada where he received his Bachelor of Commerce degree from University of Saskatchewan.
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Uwe Reinhardt taught courses in economic theory and policy, accounting, and health economics and policy.
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Uwe Reinhardt died of sepsis on November 14,2017 in Princeton, NJ.
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Uwe Reinhardt's research focused on hospital pricing, systems of health care around the world, Medicare reform, and health care spending.
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Uwe Reinhardt's work appeared in Health Affairs, The New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, The British Medical Journal, and The European Heart Journal.
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In one paper, Uwe Reinhardt discusses the obstacles to success of consumer-directed health care in light of the lack of transparency in hospital pricing.
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Uwe Reinhardt suggests several reforms that could lead to better information on hospital pricing for consumer decision-making, including a national set of diagnosis-related group weights to which each hospital could then apply its own conversion factor.
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Uwe Reinhardt's scholarship analyzed the US health care industry in relation to systems around the world.
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Uwe Reinhardt argued that higher US health spending is a result of higher US per capita gross domestic product as well as intricate and disjointed payment systems.
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Uwe Reinhardt served on the Governing Council of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences between 1979 and 1982, after election to the Institute in 1978.
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Uwe Reinhardt served as a Commissioner for the Kaiser Family Foundation Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured.
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Uwe Reinhardt was a member of numerous editorial boards, among them The New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, The Journal of Health Economics, the Milbank Quarterly, and Health Affairs.
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Uwe Reinhardt served as a trustee of Duke University and the Tekla Family of Funds.
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Uwe Reinhardt served on the Boards of Directors of Boston Scientific Corporation, a leading maker of medical devices, and Amerigroup Corporation, a large health insurer whose clients consist primarily of persons enrolled in Medicare.
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Uwe Reinhardt served on the Board of Directors of Triad Hospitals, Inc, until that company was merged into Community Health Systems in 2007.
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Uwe Reinhardt was a regular contributor to the New York Times' Economix blog, where he wrote about economic matters, particularly the economics of health care.
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In 1989, as Taiwan was restructuring its healthcare system, Uwe Reinhardt persuaded its leaders to model it on those of Canada and Germany.
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In 2018, Uwe Reinhardt was posthumously awarded the First Grade Medal for Professionalism in Health and Welfare by Taiwan's Ministry of Health and Welfare.
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Uwe Reinhardt faulted the seeming US preference for an unwieldy "mishmash of private insurance plans" for the inefficiency.
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Uwe Reinhardt said if the US could spend half as much on administration, it would save more than enough money to cover all the uninsured.