Articles
The Effects of Multi-Hospital Systems on Hospital Prices (with Glenn Melnick), Journal of Health Economics (2007)
US hospital prices are rising again after years of limited growth. We analyze trends in...
Reducing the Global Burden of Tuberculosis: The Contribution of Improved Diagnostics (with Mark D. Perkins, Peter Small, Christy Hanson, Steven Reed, Jane Cunningham, Julia E. Aledort, Lee Hillborne, Maria E. Rafael, Federico Girosi, and Christopher Dye), Nature (2006)
Tuberculosis (TB) is a leading cause of disease and death, with ~2 billion people infected...
The Lifetime Burden of Chronic Disease among the Elderly (with Geoffrey F. Joyce, Baoping Shang, and Dana P. Goldman), Health Affairs (2005)
The high costs of treating chronic diseases suggest that reducing their prevalence would improve Medicare's...
The Value of Remaining Lifetime Is Close to Estimated Values of Life, Journal of Health Economics (2001)
Workers under 50 on average will spend 10–20% of their future hours working. So, assuming...
The Changing Effects of Competition on Non-Profit and For-Profit Hospital Pricing Behavior (with Glenn Melnick and Jack Zwanziger), Journal of Health Economics (1999)
Has the nature of hospital competition changed from a medical arms race in which hospitals...
A Model of the Impact of Reimbursement Schemes on Health Plan Choice (with Grace Carter and Joseph P. Newhouse), Journal of Health Economics (1998)
Flat capitation (uniform prospective payments) makes enrolling healthy enrollees profitable to health plans. Plans with...
Can Medical Savings Accounts for the Nonelderly Reduce Health Care Costs? (with Jesse D. Malkin, Dana P. Goldman, and Joan L. Buchanan), The Journal of the American Medical Association (1996)
Objective: To understand how medical savings account (MSA) legislation for the nonelderly would affect health...
The Cost Effectiveness of Preoperative Autologous Blood Donations (with Jeff Etchason, Lawrence Petz, Loni Calhoun, Steven Kleinman, Cynthia Snider, Arlene Fink, and Robert Brook), The New England Journal of Medicine (1995)
Background: Since the recognition that human immunodeficiency virus is transmissible by blood transfusion there has...
Health Care for Black and Poor Hospitalized Medicare Patients (with Katherine L. Kahn, Marjorie L. Pearson, Ellen R. Harrison, Katherine A. Desmond, William H. Rogers, Lisa V. Rubenstein, and Robert H. Brook), The Journal of the American Medical Association (1994)
OBJECTIVE: To analyze whether elderly patients who are black or from poor neighborhoods receive worse...
New DEALEs: Other Approximations of Life Expectancy (with Robert Bell), Medical Decision Making (1992)
Hospital Characteristics and Quality of Care (with L. V. Rubenstein, K. L. Kahn, D. Draper, E. R. Harrison, M. J. McGinty, W. H. Rogers, and R. H. Brook), The Journal of the American Medical Association (1992)
OBJECTIVE: To compare quality of care measured by explicit criteria, implicit review, and sickness-adjusted outcomes...