Wynand P.M.M. van de Ven

 

Tel: +31-10-4088525
E-mail: vandeven@bmg.eur.nl

After studying mathematics Wynand P.M.M. van de Ven (1950) wrote his thesis “Studies in Health Insurance and Econometrics” at Leiden University. Since 1986 he is professor of Health Insurance at the Department Health Policy and Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam. In his lectures he pays attention to the way health insurance can contribute to achieving both efficiency and equity in health care. His current research activities have a strong relation with the procompetitive reforms of the Dutch health care system. Key words of his research interest are: managed competition in health care, competitive health insurance market, adverse selection, moral hazard, (prevention of) cream skimming, risk-adjusted premium subsidies, competition policy, managed care and priority choices in health care. He has experience as a member of the board of directors of a sickness fund and two hospitals and has served as a consultant for several health care organizations. As a visiting consultant he has studied the (restructuring of the) health care systems in Chile, Ireland, Israel, New Zealand, Poland, Russia, South Africa and Sweden. In recent years he has played a key role in setting up the European Risk Adjustment Network. He is Programme Director of the Master Health Economics, Policy and Law at Erasmus University and Chair of the Arrow Award Committee.

Professional experience

1973 - 1976

Research-assistent Economics Department, University of Leiden

1976 - 1982

Assistant professor, Centre for Research in Public Economics, University of Leiden

1981

Visiting research associate, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California, U.S.

1983 - 1986

Associate professor, Institute of Health Policy and Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam

1986 - present

Professor of Health Insurance, Erasmus University Rotterdam
 

Publications

Health Care (Hospital Services, Health Insurance, Pharmaceuticals)

  • Market-oriented health care reforms and policy learning in the Netherlands, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, forthcoming, J.K. Helderman, F.T. Schut, Ted van der grinten and W.P.M.M. van de Ven.
  • Access to coverage for high-risks in a competitive individual health insurance market: via premium rate restrictions or risk-adjusted premium subsidies? Journal of Health Economics 19 (2000) 311-339, W.P.M.M. van de Ven, R.C.J.A. van Vliet, F.T. Schut, E.M. van Barneveld.
  • Ven, W.P.M.M. van de 'A future for competitive health care in the Netherlands' in: A.F. Casparie, H.E.G.M. Hermans en J.H.P. Paelinck (eds.): 'Competitive Health Care in Europe' Darmouth, Aldershot, England, 1990, 305-327.

Miscellaneous

  • Helderman, JK., FT Schut, TED van der grinten, WPMM van de Ven Market-oriented health care reforms and policy learning in the Netherlands To be published in Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 2005
  • Van de Ven, WPMM., RCJA van Vliet, LM Lamers Health-adjusted premium subsidies in the Netherlands Health Affairs, vol 23, No. 3, May/June 2004, 45-55.
  • Schut, FT., WPMM van de Ven Rationing and competition in the Dutch health care system Submitted (2004)
  • Van de Ven, W.P.M.M., Qual e la migliore strategia per ottenere solidarieta in un mercato di fondi malattia competitivo: limitazioni ai premi assicurativi o sussidi ai premi calcolati in base al rischio? Politiche sanitarie, vol. 4, No. 4, 2003, 125-132.
  • Lamers, LM., RCJA van Vliet, WPMM van de Ven Risk adjusted capitation payment systems for health insurance plans in a competitive market, Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics & Outcome Research, vol.3 (5), 2003, 541-549.
  • Lamers, LM., RCJA van Vliet, WPMM van de Ven Risk adjusted premium subsidies and risk sharing: key elements of the competitive sickness fund market in the Netherlands, Health Policy 65 (2003) 49-62.
  • Van de Ven, W.P.M.M. , K. Beck, F. Buchner, et al. “Risk adjustment and risk selection on the sickness fund insurance market in five European countries” Health Policy 65 (2003) 75-98.
  • Chernichovsky, D. and WPMM van de Ven “Risk adjustment in Europe” Health Policy 65 (2003) 1-3.
  • WPMM van de Ven Was ist die beste Strategie eines ‘solidarischen’ Ausgleichs der Krankheitslasten in einem wettbewerblichen Krankenversicherungssystem: Obergrenzen für Versicherungsbeiträge oder risikobezogene Prämiensubventionen? Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 71(2002),4, 477-489.
  • Van de Ven, W.P.M.M "Risk selection on the sickness fund market."  The European Journal of Health Economics 2001 (2) 91-95.
  • Van Barneveld, E.M., L.M. Lamers, RCJA van Vliet, WPMM van de Ven "Risk sharing as a supplement to imperfect capitation: a tradeoff between selection and efficiency."  Journal of Health Economics 2001, 20(2): 147-168.
  • Van Barneveld, E.M., R.J.C.A. Van Vliet, W.P.M.M. Van de Ven "Risk sharing between competing health plans and sponsors" Health Affairs 2001, 20 (3): 253-262.
  • F.M. Bakker, R.C.J.A. van Vliet, W.P.M.M. van de Ven Deductibles in health insurance: can the actuarially fair premium reduction exceed the deductible? Health Policy 53 (2000) 123-141.
  • E.M. van Barneveld, L.M. Lamers, R.C.J.A. van Vliet and W.P.M.M. van de Ven Ignoring small predictable profits and losses: a new approach for measuring incentives for cream skimming Health Care Management Science 3 (2000) 131-140.
  • Ven, W.P.M.M. van de, R.P. Ellis Risk adjustment in competitive health plan markets Handbook of Health Economics, Volume 1, Edited by A.J. Culyer and J.P. Newhouse, Elsevier Science B.V. 2000, 755-845.
  • Barneveld, E.M., L.M. Lamers, R.C.J.A. van Vliet and W.P.M.M. van de Ven
    Mandatory pooling as a supplement to risk-adjusted capitation payments in a competitive health insurance market. Social Science and Medicine Vol 47, No. 2, pp. 223-232, 1998.
  • Ven, W.P.M.M. van de ‘The Netherlands’ In: C. Ham (ed.): ‘Health care reform: Learning from international experience’ Open University Press, Buckingham, Philadelphia. 1997; 87-103.
  • Ven, W.P.M.M. van de 'Health care reforms in the Netherlands' in: C. Ham (ed.): 'Health care reform: learning from international experience' Open University Press, Buckingham, Philidelphia, 1997, 87-103.
  • Ven W.P.M.M. van de, Vliet R.C.J.A. van, Barneveld E.M. van, Lamers L.M. Risikoausgleich in einem wettbewerblich strukturierten Krankenversicherung: Reichen Alter und Geschlecht aus? In: Alter und Gesundheit. Oberender P (ed.). Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden. 1997; 175-195.
  • Barneveld, E.M. van, R.C.J.A. van Vliet, W.P.M.M. van de Ven 'Risk-adjusted capitation payments for catastrophic risks based on multi-year' Health Policy, 39(1997), 123-135.
  • Ven W.P.M.M. van de, Vliet R.C.J.A. van, Barneveld E.M. van, Lamers L.M. Vers un mécanisme d’ajustement au risque dans un marché d’assurance maladie concurrentiel. In: Économie de la santé: trajectoires du futur. Jacobzone S (ed.). INSEE. 1997; 117-132.
  • Barneveld, E.M., R.C.J.A. van Vliet, W.P.M.M. van de Ven 'Mandatory high-risk pooling: an approach to reducing the incentives for cream skimming' Inquiry 33 (1996), 133-143.
  • Ven, W.P.M.M. van de 'Market-Oriented Health Care Reforms: Trends and Future Options". Social Science & Medicine, 43(1996), 655-666.
  • Ven, W.P.M.M. van de  'Regulation, Competition and Equity: With or Without a Fixed Budget?' In: F.W. Schwartz, H. Glennerster, R. Saltman, & R. Busse (Eds.), Fixing health budgets: experience form Europe and North America  Chicester: John Wiley & Sons Ltd. (1996) p.63-71.
  • Ven, W.P.M.M. van de 'Choices in health care: a contribution from the Netherlands' British Medical Bulletin 51 (1995), 781-790.
  • Ven, W.P.M.M. van de, R.C.J.A. van Vliet 'Consumer information surplus and adverse selection in competitive health insurance markets: an empirical study'. Journal of Health Economics 14 (1995), 149-169.
  • Ven, W.P.M.M. van de, F.F.H. Rutten 'Managed competition in the Netherlands: lesson from five years of health care reform" Australian Health Review 18(1) (1995), 9-27.
  • Ven, W.P.M.M. van de 'Regulated Competition in health care: with or without a global budget?' European Economic Review 39 (1995), 786-794.
  • Cuyler, A.J. von der Schulenburg, Ven W.P.M.M. van de "Swedish health care revisited" Occasional Paper no 71, Swedish Center for Business and Policy Studies (SNS),  Stockholm, November 1995
  • Ven W.P.M.M van de, F.T. Schut 'The Dutch experience with internal markets' in : M. Jerome-forget et.al (eds.): "Health care reform through internal markets", The Brookings Institution, 1995, 95-117.
  • Ven W.P.M.M. van de, F.T. Schut, F.F.H. Rutten  'Forming and reforming the market for third-party purchasing of health care' Social Science and Medicine 39, (1994), 1405-1412.
  • Ven W.P.M.M. van de, R.C.J.A. van Vliet, E.M. van Barneveld, L.M. Lamers
    'Risk-adjusted capitation: recent experiences in the Netherlands' Health Affairs 13(5) Winter (1994), 120-136.
  • Ven, W.P.M.M. van de, F.T. Schut 'Should catastrophic risks be included in a regulated competitive health insurance market?' Social Science and Medicine 39, (1994), 1459-1472.
  • Vliet, R.C.J.A. van, W.P.M.M. van de Ven 'Capitation payments based on prior hospitalizations' Health Economics 2 (1993), 177-188.
  • Ven, W.P.M.M. van de 'Regulated competition in health care: lessons for Europe from the Dutch "Demonstration Project"' iBMG-report, keynote lecture 1993th annual EHMA-conference "Managing Healthcare Markets"  Warsaw, (1993), 1-44.
  • Ven, W.P.M.M. van de, and R.C.J.A. van Vliet 'How can we prevent cream skimming in a competitive health insurance market? the great challenge for the 90s' in: P. Zweifel and H.E. Frech (eds.): "Health Economics Worldwide" Kluwer, 1992, 23-46.
  • Ven, W.P.M.M. van de 'Public and Private Health Insurance, introduction' in: Hermans, H.E.G.M., A.F. Casparie, J.H.P. Paelinck (eds.): 'Health care in Europe after 1992' Darthmouth Aldershot, 1992, 233-236.
  • Vliet, R.C.J.A. van, W.P.M.M. van de Ven 'Towards a budgetformula for competing health insurers, an empirical analysis' to be published in  Social Science and Medicine, 34 (1992), 1035-1048.
  • Schut, F.T., W. Greenberg and W.P.M.M. van de Ven 'Antitrust Policy in the Dutch Health Care system and the Relevance of EEC Competition Policy and US antitrust Practice'  Health Policy 17 (1991), 257-284.
  • Ven, W.P.M.M. van de 'Health insurance reforms and incentives in the Netherlands' In:  Lopez-Casasnovas, G. (ed.):  'Incentives in health systems' Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1991, 134-152.
  • Ven, W.P.M.M. van de 'Perestrojka in the Dutch health care system' European Economic Review 35 (1991), 430-440.
  • Ven, W.P.M.M. van de and E.M. Hooijmans 'The MIMIC Health Status Index; what it is and what is does' in: G. Duru and J.H.P. Paelinck (eds.): "Econometrics of Health Care" Kluwer, The Netherlands, 1991, 19-29
  • Ven, W.P.M.M. van de 'Towards more efficiency, responsiveness and coordination in the Swedish health care system' Occasional paper nr. 34, Centre for Business and Policy Studies, Stockholm, 1991.
  • Ven, W.P.M.M. van de 'From regulated cartel to regulated competition in the Dutch health care system' European Economic Review 34 (1990), 632-645.
  • J. van der Gaag, F.F.H. Rutten and W.P.M.M. van de Ven 'Health Care in The Netherlands' in: R.M. Scheffler and L.F. Rossiter: 'Advances in health economics and Health Services Research' supplement 1, Comparative Health Systems, JAI Press, 1990, 27-41.
  • Kirkman-Liff, B.L. and W.P.M.M. van de Ven 'Improving efficiency in the Dutch health care system: current innovations and future options' Health Policy 13 (1989), 35-53.
  • Ven, W.P.M.M. van de 'An econometric model for the simultaneous estimation of the demand for medical care and the demand for health insurance' Economics Letters 24 (1987), 299-303.
  • Schut, F.T., W.P.M.M. van de Ven (ed.) Proceedings of the conference on Regulated Competition in the Dutch Health Care System Erasmus University, Rotterdam, november 1987.
  • Ven, W.P.M.M. van de 'The key role of health insurance in a cost-effective health care system; towards regulated competition in the Dutch medical market' Health Policy 7 (1987), 253-272.
  • Ven, W.P.M.M. van de and R.C.J.A. van Vliet 'Effects of cost sharing in the health care sector' Gezondheid en Samenleving 6 (1985), 238-244.
  • Ven, W.P.M.M. van de 'Studies in Health Insurance and Econometrics' dissertation, Leiden University (1984).
  • Ven, W.P.M.M. van de  'Effects of cost-sharing in health care' Effective Health Care 1 (1983), 47-58.
  • Ven, W.P.M.M. van de and J. van der Gaag 'Health as an unobservable; a MIMIC-model of demand for health care' Journal of Health Economics 1 (1982), 157-183.
  • Hooijmans E.M. and W.P.M.M. van de Ven 'Implementing a health status index in a structural health care model'  in: J. van der Gaag, W.B. Neenan and Th. Tsukahare Jr. (eds.):  'Economics of health care',  Praeger, Studies in Grant Economics (1982), 302-330.
  • Ven, W.P.M.M. van de and B.M.S. van Praag 'Risk aversion and deductibles in private health insurance; application of an adjusted tobit model to family health care expenditures' in: J. van der Gaag and M. Perlman (eds.): 'Health, Economics and Health Economics' North-Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam (1981), 125-148.
  • Ven, W.P.M.M. van de and B.M.S. van Praag 'The demand for deductibles in private health insurance; a probit model with sample selection' Journal of Econometrics 17 (1981), 229-252.

  • 'Aggregated dynamic demand equations for specialist out-patient medical care'
    Empirical Economics 2 (1978), 213-223, Gaag, J. van der, B.M.S. van Praag, F.F.H. Rutten and W.P.M.M. van de Ven.
  • Gaag, J. van der and W.P.M.M. van de Ven 'The demand for primary health care' Medical Care 16 (1978), 299-312.