Spotlight on Grantee Publications

Michael A. Morrisey, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Health Care Organization and Policy, Lister Hill Center for Health Policy, University of Alabama at Birmingham, is a co-author of an article that appeared in the Fall 2006 issue of Inquiry, titled “Tort Law and Medical Malpractice Insurance Premiums.”  The article describes HCFO funded research on the effects of tort law and insurer investment returns on physician malpractice insurance premiums. 

J. William Thomas, Ph.D., professor at the Institute for Health Policy, Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Service, University of Southern Maine, is a co-author of an article that also appeared in the Fall 2006 issue of Inquiry. Titled “Economic Profiling of Physician Specialists: Use of Outlier Treatment and Episode Attribution Rules,”  the article examines HCFO funded research on the influence of episode attribution methodology and cost outlier methodology on the accuracy of physicians' economic profiles.

Current HCFO grantee publications and recent grant findings will be regularly featured in the results section of our Web site. 
 

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