Dana Goldman holds the RAND Chair in Health Economics and is the Founding Director of the Bing Center for Health Economics at RAND. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Health Services and Radiology at UCLA. His research interests combine applied microeconomics and medical issues, with a special interest in the role that medical technology and health insurance play in determining health-related outcomes. His work has been published in leading medical, economic, statistics, and health policy journals with funding from both the public and private sectors, including the National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Aging, National Cancer Institute, National Science Foundation, Amgen, Merck, Genentech, California Healthcare Foundation, Smith Richardson Foundation, Department of Defense, Department of Labor, and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Most recently, he is the director of the RAND Roybal Center for Health Policy Simulation designed to provide better estimates of the impact of health policy changes. Dr. Goldman serves on several editorial boards including Health Affairs and the American Journal of Managed Care. He was the recipient of the National Institute for Health Care Management Research Foundation award for excellence in health policy, and the Alice S. Hersh New Investigator Award that recognizes the outstanding contributions of a young scholar to the field of health services research. He is also a research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research. Dr. Goldman received his B.A from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University.
Health Economics
Does Age or Life Expectancy Better Predict Health Care Expenditures? (with Baoping Shang), Health Economics (2007)
Pharmacy Benefit Caps And the Chronically Ill (with Geoffrey F. Joyce, Dana P. Goldman, Pinar Karaca-Mandic, and Yuhui Zheng), Health Affairs (2007)
Adverse Selection in Retiree Prescription Drug Plans (with Geoffrey Joyce, Pinar Karaca-Mandic, and Neeraj Sood), Forum for Health Economics & Policy (2006)
Adverse Selection in Retiree Prescription Drug Plans (with Dana Goldman, Geoffrey Joyce, Pinar Karaca-Mandic, and Neeraj Sood), Forum for Health Economics & Policy, Forum: Frontiers in Health Policy Research (2006)
Health Policy
Drug Licenses: A New Model for Pharmaceutical Pricing (with Anupam B. Jena, Tomas Philipson, and Eric Sun), Health Affairs (2008)
Prescription Drug Cost Sharing (with Geoffrey F. Joyce and Yuhui Zheng), Journal of the American Medical Association (2007)
The Promise of Health Care Cost Containment (with Alan Garber and Anupam B. Jena), Health Affairs (2007)
Immigrants And The Cost Of Medical Care (with James P. Smith and Neeraj Sood), Health Affairs (2006)
Benefit Design And Specialty Drug Use (with Geoffrey F. Joyce, Grant Lawless, William H. Crown, and Vincent Willey), Health Affairs (2006)
Methods
Estimating Probit Models with Self-Selected Treatments (with Jay Bhattacharya and Daniel McCaffrey), Statistics in Medicine (2006)
Sampling Patients Within and Across Health Care Providers: Multi-Stage Non-Nested Samples in Health Services Research (with John L. Adams, Matthias Schonlau, Jose J. Escarce, Meredith Kilgore, and Schoenbaum Schoenbaum), Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology (2006)
Using Hospital Tumor Registries to Identify Research Subjects (with Michael Schoenbaum, Meredith L. Kilgore, Beverly A. Weidmer, Sandra H. Berry, Jose J. Escarce, Joy H. Lewis, and Nikhil Wagle), Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology (2006)
Forecasting the Nursing Home Population (with Darius Noshir Lakdawalla, Jay Bhattacharya, Michael Hurd, Geoffrey Joyce, and Constantijn Panis), Medical Care (2003)