Major Research Areas

Managed Care Research

• Molly McNulty
  Public policy and child health, access to care, Medicaid, gender equity, advocacy
  
  
• Dana Mukamel
  My research interests include studies of quality of care provided by managed care and the effect of market forces (such as competition) on quality. Recent publications include:

  Mukamel DB, Zwanziger J, Tomaszewski KJ. Penetration, Competition, and Risk Adjusted Hospital Mortality Health Services Research 2001;36(6):1019-1035.

  Mukamel DB, Mushlin AI, Weimer DL, Zwanziger J, Parker T, Indridason I. Do Quality Report Cards Play a Role in HMOs Contracting Practices? - Evidence from New York State. Health Services Research 2000;35(1, Part II):319-332.

  Mukamel DB, Weimer DL, Zwanziger J, Mushlin AI. Quality of Cardiac Surgeons and Managed Care Contracting Practices. Health Services Research 2002; forthcoming.

  Mukamel DB, Bajorska A, Temkin-Greener H. Health Care Services Utilization at the end of life in PACE - a managed care program integrating acute and long-term care. Submitted for publication 2002.
  
  

• Bruce Friedman
  Dr. Friedman has considerable interest and experience in managed care research relating to elderly people. In the early 1990's, he conducted a survey of the medical directors of the Medicare health maintenance organizations to determine the extent to which those organizations were carrying out recommended geriatric practices (Friedman, B, and Kane, RL. HMO Medical Directors' Perceptions of Geriatric Practice in Medicare HMOs. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 41(10): 1144- 49, October 1993). Since the mid 1990s he has been studying differences in hospital, skilled nursing facility, and home healthcare utilization in two managed care organizations: a Social Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) and a Medicare risk HMO. Here he has been applying various sophisticated analytic techniques, including bivariate probit, instrumental variables, sample selection models, and the two-part model.
  
  
• Helena Temkin-Greener
  Health services research focusing on organization, financing, and delivery of care for the elderly; development of risk-adjusted payment models, and outcomes research.