Spotlight on Grantee Publications
Gloria J. Bazzoli, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Health Administration at Virginia Commonwealth University, is a co-author of an article released in the Winter 2004/2005 issue of Inquiry, titled “The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 and U.S. Hospital Operations.” The article details HCFO sponsored research examining how changes to hospital payments made in the BBA affected hospital operations and comparing these effects to those that occurred with implementation of the Medicare prospective payment system in the early 1980s.
Daniel Polsky, Ph.D., a research associate professor in the Division of Internal Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, is a co-author of an article released in the October 2005 Part I issue of HSR titled “Employer Health Insurance Offerings and Employer Enrollment Decisions.” The article details HCFO sponsored research on how the characteristics of the health benefits offered by employers affect worker insurance coverage decisions.
Laurence Baker, Ph.D., a professor at the Department of Health Research and Policy, at Stanford University, is the co-author of an article featured in the October 2005 Part I issue of HSR titled “Medicaid Managed Care and Health Care for Children.” The article details HCFO sponsored research on the relationship between Medicaid managed care enrollment and health care for children.
Kevin G.M. Volpp, M.D., Ph.D., a professor at University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and The Wharton School, is a co-author of an article published in the August 2005 issue of HSR titled “The Effects of Price Competition and Reduced Subsidies for Uncompensated Care on Hospital Mortality.” The article details HCFO sponsored reserach into the impact on hospital mortality rates in New Jersey after the implementation of a law that changed hospital payment from a regulated system based on hospital cost to a price competition model that reduced subsidies for uncompensated care. The article also looks at whether changes in mortality rates were affected by hospital market conditions.
Current HCFO grantee publications and recent grant findings will be regularly featured in the results section of the HCFO Web site.
