Massachusetts Institute of Technology Task Force on Medical Care for the MIT Community

Charge

The Task Force on Medical Care for the MIT Community will be asked to recommend to the president of MIT a single vision or appropriate alternative visions for the future of health care for MIT students, employees, and retirees. To construct and support this vision, the Task Force should:

• Review and articulate the goals of MIT's programs to provide health care and health insurance to our undergraduate and graduate students, employees, and retirees in terms of access to care, quality of care, and costs of providing care.
• Review and assess how well current arrangements are achieving the goals for providing health care to our students, employees, and retirees through the MIT Medical Department and through other providers accessible through our insurance plans.
• Examine how other leading research universities provide health care and health insurance to meet the needs of their students, employees, and retirees.
• Benchmark the quality and costs of health care services provided directly by the Medical Department as well as the methods used by MIT to set the prices for health insurance.
• Review and assess alternative models for providing health care and establishing health insurance prices from the perspectives of quality of care, access to care, and the cost of care to students, employees, and retirees and to MIT.
• Seek input from the MIT community, including the staff of the Medical Department, Medical Management Board, Medical Consumers' Advisory Council, and Strategic Review of Benefits Committee regarding access to health care, quality of health care, and the costs of health care and health insurance.
• Based on this work, form a set of specific recommendations for advancing high quality health care in a cost effective manner for all members of our community.

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Community Input

The Task Force on Medical Care for the MIT Community is examining various aspects of medical services and health insurance coverage provided by MIT to its students and employees. While the Task Force has done a considerable amount of work to address the items in its charge, it has come to no specific conclusions or recommendations and will not do so until all members of the MIT community have been given an opportunity to express their views. The perspectives of employees and their families are of great importance to the Task Force and will help it to develop recommendations to the MIT administration.

The Task Force recently closed the Student and Employee Medical Surveys. If you have any questions about the surveys, please contact med-survey@mit.edu.

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Members and Staff

Members		Advisors	Staff
Paul L. Joskow, Chair Professor, Department of Economics Room E52-271D 617-253-6664 pjoskow@mit.edu Larry G. Benedict Dean for Student Life Room 4-110 617-253-4052 larryben@mit.edu Mary Boyce Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering Room 1-304 617-253-2342 mcboyce@mit.edu R. Erich Caulfield Graduate student, EECS 550 Memorial Drive, Apt. 20C Cambridge, MA 02139-4910 617-225-1337 rerichc@mit.edu Lydia B. Chilton Undergraduate student East Campus, Hayden #508 617-225-6523 hmslydia@mit.edu Gerald R. Fink Professor, Whitehead Institute Room WI-561F 617-258-5215 gfink@wi.mit.edu Alice P. Gast Vice President for Research, Associate Provost, and Professor of Chemical Engineering Room 3-240 617-253-1403 gast@mit.edu	Morris Halle Institute Professor Emeritus Room 32-D838 617-253-3221 halle@mit.edu Marc B. Jones Assistant Dean School of Science Room 6-128 617-253-8904 mbj@mit.edu Thomas A. Kochan Professor. Sloan School of Management Room E52-583 617-253-6689 tkochan@sloan.mit.edu Nancy L. Rose Professor, Department of Economics Room E52-280B 617-253-8956 nrose@mit.edu Alan E. Siegel Chief, Mental Health Service Medical Department Room E23-368 617-253-2916 sieg@med.mit.edu Joyce D. Yaffee Assistant to the Director Lincoln Laboratory Room LL-S3-150D 781-981-7016 yaffee@ll.mit.edu	David Blumenthal Professor, Harvard Medical School Director, Institute for Health Policy Massachusetts General Hospital 50 Staniford Street, Suite 901 Boston, MA 02114-2517 617-726-5212 dblumenthal@partners.org William M. Kettyle, M.D. Medical Director and Head, MIT Medical Room E23-281 617-253-1716 kett@med.mit.edu Paul F. Levy President and Chief Executive Officer Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center 330 Brookline Avenue Mail Stop FD 230 Boston, MA 02215-5400 617-667-0270 plevy@bidmc.harvard.edu A. Neil Pappalardo MIT Corporation member 10 Rowes Wharf, Nº 1104 Boston, MA 02110-3324 781-821-3000 antonino@meditech.com James Richter, M.D. Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School 55 Fruit Street, Blake 4 Boston, MA 02114 617-726-0397 jrichter@partners.org	Janet L. Snover (Staff) Special Assistant to the Executive Vice President Room 10-203 617-258-5993 jsnover@mit.edu Marianne L. Howard Director for Human Resources Administration Room E19-239 617-253-8981 mlhoward@mit.edu Israel Ruiz Associate Budget Director, Strategic Planning and Modeling Room E19-617 617-253-4495 iruiz@mit.edu