Biography
Richard works as an associate professor of health systems & insurance at the Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management of the Erasmus University Rotterdam. His research and teaching focus on the evaluation and improvement of health systems & insurance. Specific areas of expertise include regulated competition, risk adjustment, risk sharing, provider payment methods and consumer cost sharing. A key question in Richard’s work is “How to achieve universal access to healthcare while enabling and incentivizing consumers and provider 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
- 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]
- Michel Oskam, Richard C. van Kleef & Rudy Douven (2024) - Heteroscedasticity of residual spending after risk equalization: a potential source of selection incentives in health insurance markets with premium regulation - European Journal of Health Economics, 25 (3), 379-396 - doi: 10.1007/s10198-023-01592-9 - [link]
- A. A. Withagen-Koster, R. C. van Kleef & F. Eijkenaar (2024) - High-risk pooling for mitigating risk selection incentives in health insurance markets with sophisticated risk equalization: an application based on health survey information - Bmc Health Services Research, 24 (1) - doi: 10.1186/s12913-024-10774-x - [link]
- Andreea Panturu, Michel Oskam, Rene van Vliet & Richard van Kleef (2023) - Potentiële gamechanger zorgverzekeringsmarkt - Actuaris - [link]
- Michel Oskam, Richard C. van Kleef & René C.J.A. van Vliet (2023) - Improving diagnosis-based cost groups in the Dutch risk equalization model: the effects of a new clustering method and allowing for multimorbidity - International Journal of Health Economics and Management, 23 (2), 303-324 - doi: 10.1007/s10754-023-09345-0 - [link]
American Journal of Health Economics
- Start date approval
- april 2024
- End date approval
- april 2027
- Place
- SCHIPLUIDEN
- Description
- Board member
