Biography
Richard van Kleef works as an associate professor at the Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management (Erasmus University Rotterdam). His research and teaching focus on the evaluation and improvement of healthcare systems. Specific areas of expertise include regulated competition, consumer choice, risk adjustment, risk sharing, provider payment methods, and consumer cost sharing. The key question in Richard's work is "How to achieve universal access to healthcare while enabling and incentivizing patients, providers and insurers to use resources wisely?"
Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management
Associate professor | Health Systems and Insurance (HSI)
- vankleef@eshpm.eur.nl
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Work
- Josefa Henriquez, Thomas G. McGuire, Richard van Kleef, Francesco Paolucci & Andrew Matthews (2026) - Policy innovation in voluntary hospital private health insurance:: Combining risk adjustment and risk sharing in Australia - Health Policy, 167 - doi: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2026.105584
- Marcello Antonini, Josefa Henriquez, Richard van Kleef, Adrian Melia & Francesco Paolucci (2026) - Can risk-rating of incremental premiums improve consumer sorting across coverage options in mandatory health insurance markets? - Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 243 - doi: 10.1016/j.jebo.2026.107452
- Andreea Panturu, Richard van Kleef & Frank Eijkenaar (2025) - Ex ante evaluation of risk adjustment models for prospective provider payment: a conceptual framework and empirical application - European Journal of Health Economics - doi: 10.1007/s10198-025-01871-7 - [link]
- Michel Oskam, Richard van Kleef & Rene van Vliet (2025) - Does Health-Based Prospective Risk Adjustment Adequately Compensate for Individuals Diagnosed With a New Chronic Disease? - Medical Care Research and Review - doi: 10.1177/10775587251378167
- Andreea Panturu, Richard van Kleef, Frank Eijkenaar & Daniëlle Cattel (2025) - A Framework for the Design of Risk-Adjustment Models in Health care Provider Payment Systems - Medical Care Research and Review, 82 (1), 43-57 - doi: 10.1177/10775587241273355 - [link]
- Michel Oskam, Richard C. van Kleef & René C.J.A. van Vliet (2024) - Supplementing risk adjustment with high-risk pooling using historical data for identifying the high risks - Journal of Risk and Insurance, 92 (1), 166-202 - doi: 10.1111/jori.12500 - [link]
- Richard van Kleef, Rene van Vliet & Michel Oskam (2024) - Risk Adjustment in Health Insurance Markets: Do Not Overlook the “Real” Healthy - Medical Care, 62 (11), 767-772 - doi: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000001955
- Wynand P.M.M. van de Ven & Richard C. van Kleef (2024) - A critical review of the use of R<sup>2</sup> in risk equalization research - European Journal of Health Economics, 26 (3), 363-375 - doi: 10.1007/s10198-024-01709-8 - [link]
- Richard C. van Kleef, Mieke Reuser, Pieter J.A. Stam & Wynand P.M.M. van de Ven (2024) - A framework for ex-ante evaluation of the potential effects of risk equalization and risk sharing in health insurance markets with regulated competition - Health Economics Review, 14 (1) - doi: 10.1186/s13561-024-00540-4 - [link]
- Richard C. van Kleef, Mieke Reuser, Thomas G. McGuire, John Armstrong, Konstantin Beck, Shuli Brammli-Greenberg, Randall P. Ellis, Francesco Paolucci, Erik Schokkaert & Juergen Wasem (2024) - Scope and Incentives for Risk Selection in Health Insurance Markets With Regulated Competition: A Conceptual Framework and International Comparison - Medical Care Research and Review, 81 (3), 175-194 - doi: 10.1177/10775587231222584 - [link]
American Journal of Health Economics
- Start date approval
- april 2024
- End date approval
- april 2027
- Place
- SCHIPLUIDEN
- Description
- Board member
University of Newcastle Australia
- Start date approval
- juli 2025
- End date approval
- december 2026
- Place
- NEWCASTLE
- Description
- Research and teaching
Master Thesis HE
- Year Level
- master, master
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- GW4592M
Academic Development & Skills
- Level
- bachelor 1
- Year Level
- bachelor 1
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- GWAVV-25
Economics and Financing
- Year Level
- master, master, master, master
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- GW4567M
Master Thesis HEPL
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- GW4555M
