Richard Gabriel Frank
Office Address:
Department
of Health Care Policy
Harvard
Medical School
180
Longwood Avenue
Boston,
MA 02115
(617)
432-0178 (phone)
(617) 432-1219 (fax)
frank@hcp.med.harvard.edu (E-mail)
Date/Place of Birth: April 27, 1952
Boston, MA
Education
Boston University
Ph.D. in Economics, Awarded January 1982
Dissertation: “Pricing and Location of Physician Services in Mental Health”
(Accepted with Distinction,
May 1981).
Bard College
B.A. in Economics, May 1974
Honors: 1979
- Dissertation Award from the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association
1979 - Honorable Mention Abt
Economic Policy Essay Competition
1980 - Dissertation Support
from Foundations Fund for Research in Psychiatry
1986 - New Investigator
Research Award, NIMH
1988 - Delta Omega (Public
Health Honorary Society)
1993 - Georgescu-Roegen
Award (Best Paper in 1992-93) Southern Economic Association (with David S.
Salkever)
1996 - Fellow of the
Association for Health Services Research
1997 - Member, Institute of
Medicine
1998 - Carl A. Taube Award,
American Public Health Association
2001 – Emily Mumford Medal,
Columbia University, Department of Psychiatry
Current Positions
Margaret T. Morris Professor
of Health Economics 1999 – Present
Department of Health Care
Policy
Harvard University Medical
School
Research Associate 1987
- Present
National Bureau of Economic
Research
Cambridge, MA/New York, NY
Past Positions
Member 1996
- 2000
Substance Abuse and Mental
Health
Service Administration
Advisory Council
U.S.D.H.H.S.
Professor of Health
Economics 1994 - 1999
Department of Health Care
Policy
Harvard University Medical
School
Commissioner 1989
- 1994
Health Services Cost Review
Commission
State of Maryland
Deputy Director 1990
- 1994
Center on Organization and
Financing of Care
for the Severely Mentally
Ill
Professor 1991 -
1994
Department of Health Policy
and Management
School of Hygiene and Public
Health
Johns Hopkins University
Staff Member 1993
President's Task Force on
Health Care Reform
Associate Professor 1986
- 1991
Department of Health Policy
and Management
School of Hygiene and Public
Health
Johns Hopkins University
Faculty Research Fellow 1983 -
1987
National Bureau of Economic
Research
Cambridge, MA/New York, NY
Assistant Professor 1984
- 1986
Department of Health Policy
and Management
School of Hygiene and Public
Health
Johns Hopkins University
Assistant Professor of
Psychiatry 1981 - 1984
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA
Senior Fellow/Visiting
Assistant Professor of Economics 1980 - 1981
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA
Economist 1979
- 1980
Division of Biometry and
Epidemiology
National Institute of Mental
Health
Rockville, MD
Teaching Fellow 1977 - 1979
Department of Economics
Boston University
Boston, MA
Peace Corps Volunteer 1975 -
1976
Republic of Botswana, Africa
Publications (Refereed
Journals)
1.
Frank
RG. “Cost Benefit Analysis in Mental
Health: A Review of the Literature,” Administration
in Mental Health, 8(3):161-176, 1981.
2.
Frank
RG and Welch WP. “The Contracting of
State of Mental Hospital Systems,” Journal
of Health Politics Policy and Law, 7(2):676-683, 1982.
3.
Frank
RG. “Freedom of Choice Laws: An
Empirical Test of Their Contribution to Competition in Mental Health Care
Delivery,” Health Policy Quarterly,
2(2):79-97, 1982.
4.
Frank
RG and Herring J. “Public Provision of
Mental Hospital Services: Some Economic Issues,” Administration in Mental Health,10(4):288-305, 1983.
5.
Welch
WP, Frank RG and Costello AJ. “Missing
Data in Psychiatric Research: A Solution,” Psychological
Bulletin, 94(1):177-180, 1983.
6.
Frank
RG. “Is There a Shortage of
Psychiatrists?” Community Mental Health
Journal, 19(1):42-53, 1983.
(Reprinted Yearbook of Psychiatry)
7.
Frank
RG. “Pricing and Location of Physician
Services in Mental Health,” Economic
Inquiry, 23:115-133, January 1985.
8.
Frank
RG and Kessler LG. “Economic Grand
Rounds: State Medicaid Limitations for Mental Health Services,” Hospital and Community Psychiatry Journal,
35(3):213-216, March 1984. (Invited paper)
9.
Frank
RG. “Rationing of Mental Health
Services: Simple Observations on the Current Approach and Future Prospects,” Administration in Mental Health,
13(1):22-29, Fall 1985.
10.
Frank
RG and Welch WP. “Competitive Effects
of HMOs: A Review of the Evidence,” Inquiry,
22(2):148-161, Summer 1985.
11.
Frank
RG. “A Model of State Expenditures on
Mental Hospital Services,” Public Finance
Quarterly, 13(3):319-338, 1985.
12.
Frank
RG and McGuire TG. “Demand and
Utilization of Mental Health Services: A Review of the Evidence,” Health Services Research, 21(2):241-265,
Summer 1986.
13.
Frank
RG and Kamlet MS. “Direct Costs and
Expenditures for Mental Health Care in the US: 1980,” Hospital and Community Psychiatry Journal,36(2):165-168, February
1985. (Reprinted Yearbook of Psychiatry)
14.
Frank
RG, et al. “Research Selection Bias and
the Prevalence of Depressive Disorders in Psychiatric Facilities,” Journal of Consulting and Clinical
Psychology, 53(3):370-376, 1985.
15.
Needleman
HL, Geiger SK and Frank RG. “Lead and
IQ Scores: A Re-Analysis,” Science,
227:701-704, 1985.
16.
Frank
RG and Lave JR. “The Impact of Benefit
Design on Length of Stay and Transfers to Residential Settings for Medicaid
Psychiatric Patients,” Hospital and
Community Psychiatry, 36(7):749-754, July 1985.
17.
Frank
RG and Lave JR. “The Psychiatric DRGs:
Are They Different,” Medical Care,
23(11):1148-1155, October 1985.
18.
Frank
RG and Lave JR. “Prospective Payment
for Inpatient Psychiatric Care: An Alternative to the Per Case Method,” Hospital and Community Psychiatry,
36(7):775-779, July 1985.
19.
Welch
WP and Frank RG. “The Predictors of HMO
Enrollee Populations: Results from a National Sample,” Inquiry, 23(1):16-23, Spring 1986.
20.
Frank
RG and Lave JR. “The Effect of Benefit
Design on the Length of Stay of Medicaid Psychiatric Patients,” Journal of Human Resources, 23(1):16-22,
Summer 1986.
21.
Frank
RG and Kamlet MS. “Quality, Quantity
and Total Expenditures on Publicly Provided Goods: The Case of Public Mental
Hospitals,” Journal of Public Economics,
29:295-316, April 1986.
22.
Seidman
R and Frank RG. “Hospital Responses to
Incentives in Alternative Reimbursement Systems,” Journal of Behavioral Economics, 14:155-180, 1985.
23.
Schulberg HC, Saul M, McClelland M, Ganguli M, Christy W, and
Frank RG. “Assessing Depression in
Primary Medical and Psychiatric Practices,” Archives
of General Psychiatry, 42:1164-1170, 1985.
24.
Frank
RG and Lave JR. “Per Case Prospective
Payment for Psychiatric Inpatients: An Assessment and An Alternative,” Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law,
11(1):83-96, Spring 1986.
25.
Frank
RG and Kamlet MS. “Nonmarket Resource
Allocation in Mental Health Care: Interdependencies in a Fragmented World,” American Behavioral Scientist,
30(2):201-230, November/December 1986.
26.
Frank
RG and Taube CA. “Technical and
Allocative Efficiency in Production of Outpatient Mental Health Clinic
Services,” Social Science and Medicine,
24(10):843-850, 1987.
27.
Frank
RG, German PS, Burns BJ, Johnson W, and Miller N. “Use of services by Cognitively Impaired Elderly Persons Residing
in the Community,” Hospital and Community
Psychiatry, 39(5):555-557, May 1988.
28.
Frank
RG, Weiner JP, Steinwachs DM and Salkever DS.
“Economic Rents Derived from Hospital Privileges in the Market for Podiatric
Services,” Journal of Health Economics,
6(4):319-337, 1987.
29.
Weiner
JP, Steinwachs DM, Frank RG and Swartz K.
“Foot Surgery in the U.S.: The Roles of DPMs and Orthopedic Surgeons,” American Journal of Public Health,
77(8):987-992, August 1987.
30.
Stoudemire
A, Frank RG, Hedemark N, et al. “The
Economic Burden of Depression,” General
Hospital Psychiatry, 8:387-394, 1986.
31.
Frank
RG. “On Making the Illustration
Illustrative: A Comment on Banker, Conrad and Strauss,” Management Science, 34(8):1026-1029, August 1988.
32.
Taube
CA, Lave JR, Rupp A, Goldman HH, and Frank RG.
“Psychiatry Under PPS: The First Year,” American Journal of Psychiatry, 145(2):210-214, February 1988.
33.
Frank
RG. “Use of Mental Health Services and
Persistence of Emotional Distress: An Exploratory Analysis,” Medical Care, 26(12):1203-1215, December
1988.
34.
Frank
RG and Kamlet MS. “Provider Choice for
Treatment of Mental Disorder: The Impact of Health and Mental Health Status,” Health Services Research, 24(1):83-103,
April 1989.
35.
Lave
JR, Frank RG, Rupp A, et al. “The
Decision to Seek an Exemption from PPS,” Journal
of Health Economics, 7(2):165-172, 1988.
36.
Lave
JR, and Frank RG. “Factor Affecting
Medicaid Patients’ Length of Stay in Psychiatric Units: The Effect of Provider
Incentives,” Health Care Financing Review,
10(2):57-66, Winter 1988.
37.
Lave
JR, Frank RG, Taube CA, et al. “PPS and
Psychiatry: The First Year,” Inquiry,
25(3): 354-363, Fall 1988.
38.
Frank
RG and Jackson CA. “The Impact of
Prospectively Set Hospital Budgets on Psychiatric Admissions,” Social Science and Medicine,
28(8):861-867, Winter 1989.
39.
Frank
RG and Gertler P. “An Assessment of
Measurement Error Bias for Estimating the Impact of Mental Distress on
Earnings,” Journal of Human Resources,
26(1):154-164, 1991.
40.
Frank
RG. “Regulatory Policy and Information Deficiencies in the Market for Mental
Health Services,” Journal of Health
Politics, Policy and Law, 14(3):477-503, 1989.
41.
Frank RG. “Economic Grand Rounds: The Medically Indigent Mentally
Ill: Approaches to Financing,” Hospital
and Community Psychiatry, 40(1):9-12, 1989. (Invited Paper)
42.
Frank
RG and Goldman HH. “Financing Care of
the Severely Mentally Ill: Incentives, Contracts and Public Responsibility,” Journal of Social Issues, 45(3):131-144,
1989.
43.
Frank
RG and Gertler PJ. “The Effect of
Medicaid Policy on Mental Health and Poverty,” Inquiry, 26(2):283-291, Summer 1989.
44.
Frank
RG and Lave JR. “A Comparison of
Hospital Responses to Reimbursement Policies for Medicaid Psychiatric
Patients,” Rand Journal of Economics,
20(4):588-600, 1989.
45.
Frank
RG and Kamlet MS. “Economic Aspects of
Mental Health Care: Cost Variation By
Setting,” General Hospital Psychiatry,
12:11-18, 1990.
46.
Frank
RG, Salkever DS. and Mullan F.
“Hospital Ownership and Care of Uninsured and Medicaid Patients:
Findings from the Hospital Discharge Survey 1979-1984,” Health Policy, 14:1-11, 1990.
47.
Frank
RG and McGuire TG. “Compulsory
Employer-Based Health Insurance and Coverage for Mental Health Services,” Health Affairs, 9(1):31-42, 1990.
48.
Lave
JR and Frank RG. “The Effect of the
Structure of Hospital Payment on Length of Stay,” Health Services Research, 25(2):327-348, 1990.
49.
Javitt
JC, Canner JK, Frank RG, et al.
“Detecting and Treating Retinopathy in Type I Diabetics,” Ophthalmology, 97(4):483-494, 1990.
50.
Goldman
HH, Lehman AF, Morrisey JP, Newman SJ, Frank RG, and Steinwachs DM. “Design for the National Evaluation of the Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation Program on Chronic Mental Illness,” Community Psychiatry, 41(11):1217-1221,
1990.
51.
Frank
RG and Salkever DS. “Non-Profit
Providers of Mental Health Care: Privileges and Responsibilities,” Administration and Policy in Mental Health,
18(3):195-198, 1991.
52.
Solomon
L, Frank RG, Vlahov D and Astembroski J.
“Utilization of Health Services of Intravenous Drug Users with Known
Serostatus,” American Journal of Public
Health, 81(10): 1285-1290, 1991.
53.
Frank
RG, Salkever DS and Sharfstein SS. “A
Look at Rising Mental Health Insurance Costs,” Health Affairs, 10(2):116-124, 1991.
54.
Frank
RG and Salkever DS. “The Supply of
Charity Services by Non-Profit Hospitals: Motives and Market Structure,” Rand Journal of Economics,
22(3):430-445, 1991.
55.
Frank
RG, McGuire TG and Salkever DS.
“Benefit Flexibility, Cost Shifting and Mandated Mental Health
Coverage,” Journal of Mental Health
Administration, 18(3):264-271, 1991.
56.
Frank
RG, Strobino DM, Salkever DS. and Jackson CA.
“Updated Estimates of the Impact of Prenatal Care on Birthweight
Outcomes by Race,” Journal of Human
Resources, 27(4):629-642, 1992.
57.
Frank
RG and Dewa C. “Insurance, System
Structure and the Use of Mental Health Services by Children and Adolescents,” Clinical Psychology Review, 12:829-840,
1992.
58.
Frank
RG and Gertler PJ. “Mental Health and
Marital Stability,” International Journal
of Law and Psychiatry, 14:377-386, 1991.
59.
Frank
RG. “Research on Organization and
Financing of Care for Individuals with Severe Mental Illness,” Administration and Policy in Mental Health,
19(2), Spring 1992.
60.
McGuire
TG, Frank RG and Goldman HH. “Designing
a Benefit Plan for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services,” Administration and Policy in Mental Health,
19(3):151-157, 1992.
61.
Klepper
S, Kamlet MS and Frank RG. “The Impact
of Measurement Error on Estimates of Pollution Effects in Health Production
Functions,” Journal of Environmental
Economics and Management, 24:190-211, 1993.
62.
Frank
RG, Goldman HH, and McGuire TG. “A
Model Mental Health Benefit,” Health
Affairs, 11(3):98-117, 1992.
63.
Frank
RG and Salkever DS. “Pricing, Patent
Loss and the Market for Pharmaceuticals,” Southern
Economic Journal, 59(2):165-179, 1992.
64.
Strobino
DM, Kane LP, Frank RG and DeCoster E.
“Trends in Publicly Financed Prenatal and Related Services 1975-1984,” Journal of Public Health Policy,
13(3):277-290, 1992.
65.
Goldman HH, Morrissey JP, Ridgely S, Frank RG, Newman SJ, Kennedy
C. “Lessons From the Program on Chronic
Mental Illness,” Health Affairs,
11(3):52-68, 1992.
66.
Strobino
DM, Frank RG, et al. “Development of an
Index of Maternal Transport,” Medical
Decision Making, December 1993.
67.
Frank
RG, Jackson CA, and Lynch FL. “The
Structure of Economic Incentives in the Robert Wood Johnson/HUD Program on
Chronic Mental Illness,” Journal of
Mental Health Administration, Spring 1993.
68.
Steinwachs
DM, Cullum HM, Dorwart RA, Flynn L, Frank RG, et al. “Service Systems Research,” Schizophrenia
Bulletin, 18(4):627-668, 1992.
69.
Frank
RG and Gaynor MS. “Organizational
Failure and Government Transfers: Evidence from an Experiment in the Financing
of Mental Health Care,” Journal of Human
Resources, 29(1): 108-125, 1994.
70.
Arons
BS, Frank RG, Goldman HH, McGuire TG and Stephens S. “Mental Health and Substance Abuse Coverage Under National Health
Reform,” Health Affairs,
13(1):192-205, 1994.
71.
Frank
RG, McGuire TG, Regier DA, et al.
“Paying for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Care,” Health Affairs, 13(1):337-342, Spring
1994.
72.
Frank
RG and Gaynor MS. “Fiscal
Decentralization of Public Mental Health Care and the Robert Wood Johnson
Program on Chronic Mental Illness,” Milbank
Quarterly, 72(1):81-104,1994.
73.
Frank
RG and Salkever DS. “Nonprofit
Organizations in the Health Sector” Journal
of Economic Perspectives, 8(4):129-144, 1994 (reprinted in Problemi Di Amministrazione Publica as
“Le organizzazioni non-profit del settore sanitario” Anno XX, N. 4/1995).
74.
Goldman
HH, Frank RG and Gaynor MS. “What Level
of Government? Balancing the Interests of the State and the Local Community,” Administration and Policy and Mental Health,
(Summer 1995).
75.
Frank
RG, Goldman HH, and McGuire TG. “Distributional Consequences of Reform of
Mental Health Care Financing,” Hospital
Community Psychiatry, 45(9):906-910, 1994.
76.
Frank
RG, Dewa C, Holt E, et al. “The Demand
for Childhood Immunizations: Results from the Baltimore Immunization Study,” Inquiry, 32:1-10, Summer 1995.
77.
Frank
RG and Gaynor MS. “Incentives,
Optimality and Publicly Provided Goods: The Case of Mental Health Services,” Public Finance Quarterly, 23(2):167-192,
1995.
78.
Frank
RG and Brookmeyer R. “Managed Mental
Health Care and Patterns of Inpatient Utilization for Treatment of Depression,”
Social Psychiatry and Epidemiology,
August 30, 1995.
79.
Frank
RG and McGuire TG. “Estimating the
Costs of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Coverage for Public Policy,” Health Affairs, 14 (3):102-115, 1995.
80.
Frank
RG, McGuire TG, Newhouse JP. “Risk
Contracts in Managed Mental Health Care,” Health
Affairs, 14(3):50-64, 1995.
81.
Goldman HH and Frank RG.
“Health Care Reform and Mental Health Benefits in the USA: A Measure of
Success,” Current Opinion in Psychiatry,
8:69-71, 1995.
82.
Kessler
RG, Nelson GB, McGonagle KA, Edlund MJ, Frank RG, Leaf PJ. “The Epidemiology of Co-occuring Addictive
and Mental Disorders: Implications for Prevention and Services Utilization,” Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 66(1):17-31,
1996.
83.
Frank
RG, Huskamp HA, McGuire TG and Newhouse JP.
“Some Economics of the Mental Health Carve-Outs,” Archives of General Psychiatry, 53:933-937, 1996.
84.
Frank RG and Huskamp HA.
“Shaping National Policy: Delegation and Decentralization of Mental
Health Care,” Current Opinion in
Psychiatry, 9:171-174, 1996.
85.
Kessler
RC, Frank RG, Edlund M, et al.
“Differences in the Use of Psychiatric Outpatient Services Between the
United States and Ontario,” New England
Journal of Medicine, 336(8): 551-557, 1997.
86.
Frank
RG and Salkever DS. “Generic Entry and the Pricing of Pharmaceuticals,” Journal of Economics and Management Strategy,
6(1):75-90, 1997.
87.
Katz
SJ, Kessler RC, Frank RG, et al.
“Mental Health Care Use, Morbidity and Socioeconomic Status in the U.S.
and Ontario,” Inquiry, 34:38-49,
1997.
88.
Berndt
E, Frank RG, and McGuire TG. “Alternate
Insurance Arrangements and the Treatment of Depression: What are the
Facts?” American Journal of Managed Care, 3(2):243-252, 1997.
89.
Katz
SJ, Kessler RC, Frank RG, et al. “The
Use of Outpatient Mental Health Services in the United States and Ontario: The
Impact of Mental Morbidity and Perceived Need for Care,” American Journal of Public Health, 87(7):1136-1143, 1997.
90.
Kessler
RC and Frank RG. “The Impact of
Psychiatric Disorders on Work Loss Days,” Psychological
Medicine, 27:861-873, 1997.
91.
Frank
RG, Koyanagi C, McGuire TG. “The
Politics and Economics of Mental Health ‘Parity’ Laws,” Health Affairs, 16(4):108-119, 1997.
92.
Frank
RG, McGuire TG, Bae J, Rupp A.
“Solutions for Adverse Selection in Behavioral Health Care,” Health Care Financing Review,
18(3):109-122, 1997.
93.
Frank
RG and McGuire TG. “Savings from a
Carve-Out Program for Mental Health and Substance Abuse in Massachusetts
Medicaid,” Psychiatric Services,
48(9):1147-1152, 1997.
94.
Ettner
SL, Frank RG, and Kessler RC. “The
Impact of Psychiatric Disorder on Labor Market Outcomes,” Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 51(1):64-81, 1997.
95.
Spencer
C, Shelton D and Frank RG. “The Market
for Residential and Day Schools for Children with SED,” Journal of Mental Health Administration, 24(1):72-81, 1997.
96.
Frank RG, Busch SH, and Berndt ER. “Measuring Prices and Quantities for Treatment of Depression,” American Economic Review, 88(2):106-111,
1998.
97.
Huskamp HA, Azzone V, Frank RG. “Carve-outs, Women, and the Treatment of
Depression,” Women’s Health Issues,
8(5):267-82, 1998.
98.
Klassen
AC, Klassen DK, Brookmeyer R, Frank RG, and Marconi K. “Factors Influencing Waiting Time and
Successful Receipt of Cadaveric Liver Transplant in the United States,” Medical Care, 36(3):281-294, 1998.
99.
Lave
JR, Frank RG, Schulberg HC, and Kamlet MS.
“Cost-effectiveness of Treatments for Major Depression in Primary Care
Practice,” Archives of General Psychiatry,
55(7):645-651, 1998.
100.
Frank
RG and McGuire TG. “The Economic
Functions of Carve-outs in Managed Care,” The
American Journal of Managed Care, 4(SP):SP31-SP39, 1998.
101.
Ettner
SL, Frank RG, McGuire TG, Newhouse JP, and Notman EH. “Risk Adjustment of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Payments,” Inquiry, 35(2):223-239, 1998.
102.
Frank
RG and McGuire TG. “Parity for Mental
Health and Substance Abuse Care under Managed Care,” The Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics, 1:153-159, 1998.
103.
Kessler
RC, Zhao S, Katz SJ, Kouzis AC, Frank RG, Edlund M, and Leaf P. “Past-Year Use of Outpatient Services for
Psychiatric Problems in the National Comorbidity Survey,” The American Journal of Psychiatry, 156(1):115-123, 1999.
104.
Lehman
AF, Dixon L, Hoch JS, Deforge B, Kernan E, and Frank RG. “Cost-Effectiveness of Assertive Community
Treatment for Homeless Persons with Severe Mental Illness,” British Journal of Psychiatry,
174(98.439):1-7, 1999.
105.
Rosenthal
MB, Geraty RD, Frank RG, and Huskamp HA.
“Psychiatric Provider Practice Management Companies: Adding Value to
Behavioral Health Care?” Psychiatric
Services, 50(8):1011-1013, 1999.
106.
McCarty
D, Frank RG, and Denmead G. “Methadone
Maintenance and State Medicaid Managed Care Programs,” Milbank Quarterly, 77(3):341-362, 1999.
107.
Frank
RG, McGuire TG, Normand SL, and Goldman HH.
“The Value of Mental Health Services at the Systems Level: The Case of
Treatment for Depression,” Health Affairs,
18(5): 71-88, 1999.
108.
Kessler
RG, Barber C, Birnbaum HG, Frank RG, et al.
“Depression in the Workplace: Effects on Short-Term Disability,” Health Affairs, 18(5):163-171, 1999.
109.
Huskamp
HA, Rosenthal MB, Frank RG and Newhouse JP.
“The Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit: How Will the Game Be Played?” Health Affairs, 19(2):8-23, 2000.
110.
Frank
RG. “The Creation of Medicare and
Medicaid: The Emergence of Insurance and Market for Mental Health
Services.” Psychiatric Services, 51(4):465-468, 2000.
111.
Ettner
SL, Frank RG, Mark T and Smith MW.
“Risk Adjustment of Capitation Payments to Behavioral Health Care
Carve-Outs: How Well Do Existing Methodologies Account for Psychiatric
Disability?” Health Care Management Science, 3: 159-169, 2000.
112.
Ettner
SL, Frank RG, McGuire TG and Hermann RC.
“Risk Adjustment Alternatives in Paying for Behavioral Health Under
Medicaid.” Health Services Research, 36(4) 793-812, 2001.
113.
Frank
RG, Glazer J and McGuire TG. “Measuring
Adverse Selection in Managed Health Care.”
Journal of Health Economics,
19(6): 829-854, 2000.
114.
Donohue
JM and Frank RG, “Medicaid Behavioral Health Carve-Outs: A New Generation of
Privatization Decisions.” Harvard
Reviews of Psychiatry, 8(5): 231-241, 2000.
115.
Sullivan
EM, Griffiths RI, Frank RG, Strauss MJ, Herbert RJ, Clouse J and Goldman
HH. “One-Year Costs of Second-Line
Therapies for Depression.” Journal
of Clinical Psychiatry, 61(4): 290-298, 2000.
116.
Cutler
DM, Epstein AM, Frank RG, Hartman R, King C, Newhouse JP, Rosenthal MB &
Vigdor ER. ‘How Good a Deal Was the
Tobacco Settlement?: Assessing Payments to Massachusetts.” Journal of Risk and Uncertainty,
21:2/3: 235-261, 2000.
117.
Horvitz-Lennon
M, Normand SL, Gaccione P and Frank RG.
“Partial vs. Full Hospitalization for Adults in Psychiatric Distress: A
Systematic Review of the Published Literature.” American Journal of Psychiatry, 158(5), 2001.
118.
Frank
RG. “Prescription Drug Prices:
Interpreting Differences.” Health
Affairs, 20(2): 115-128, 2001.
119.
Rosenthal
MB, Frank RG, Buchanan JL and Epstein AM. “Scale and Structure of Capitated
Physician Organizations in California.” Health Affairs, 20(4): 109-119,
2001.
120.
Frank
RG & Rosenthal MR. “Health Plans
and Selection: Formal Risk vs. Market Design and Contracts.” Inquiry, 38(3): 290-298, 2001.
121.
Frank
RG, Goldman HH & McGuire TM. “Will
Parity in Coverage Result in Better Mental Health Care.” New England Journal of Medicine,
345(23): 1701-1704, 2001.
122.
Rosenthal
MB, Berndt ER, Donohue JM, Frank RG & Epstein AM. “Promotion of Prescription Drugs to Consumers.” New England Journal of Medicine,
346(7): 498-505, 2002.
Book Chapters
1.
Welch
WP, Frank RG and Diehr P. “Healthcare
Costs in Health Maintenance Organizations: Correcting for Self Selection,” In Advances
in Health Economics, Scheffler R and Rossiter L (Eds.), Greenwich, CT: JAI
Press 1984, 95-128. (Refereed)
2.
Frank
RG and Kamlet MS. “Direct Costs and
Expenditures of Mental Health Care 1980,” In Mental Health U.S., Taube C
(Ed.), Washington, DC: USGPO 1985, 95-99.
3.
Frank
RG, Kamlet MS and Klepper S. “The
Impact of Occupational Exposure to Toxic Materials on Prevalence of Chronic
Illness,” In NCHS Conference on Records and Statistics Proceedings, Washington,
DC: USGPO 1985, 59-63.
4.
Kamlet
MS, Klepper S and Frank RG. “Mixing
Micro and Macro Data in the Analysis of Occupational Pollution on Health,” In NCHS
Conference on Records and Statistics Proceedings, Washington, DC: USGPO,
1985, 231-235.
5.
Steinwachs
DM, Frank RG and Salkever DS. “Episodes
of Care for Medicare Beneficiaries: Linkage of Use and Charges Before and After
a Hospital Admission,” In NCHS Conference on Records and Statistics
Proceedings, Washington, DC: USGPO 1985, 128-132.
6.
Frank
RG, Lave JR and Goldman HH. “Financing
of Care for the Chronically Mentally Ill in the US: A Patchwork of Policies,”
In Cost Effective Care For the Chronically Mentally Ill, Schwefel (Ed.),
Berlin: Springer-Verlag 1988, 76-87. (Refereed)
7.
Frank
RG. “Regulatory Responses to
Information Deficiencies in the Market for Mental Health Services,” In The
Future of Mental Health Services Taube C, Mechanic D and Hohmann A, (Eds.),
Washington, DC: USGPO 1989, 113-138.
8.
Lave
JR and Frank RG. “Hospital Supply
Response to Prospective Payment as Measured by Length of Stay,” In Advances
in Health Economics and Health Services Research Rossiter L and Scheffler R
(Eds.), Greenwich, CT: JAI Press 1990, 1-26. (Refereed)
9.
Frank
RG, Salkever DS and Mitchell J. “Market
Forces and the Public Good: Competition Among Hospitals and Provision of
Indigent Care,” In Advances in Health Economics and Health Services Research
Rossiter L and Scheffler R (Eds.), Greenwich, CT: JAI Press 1990, 159-183.
(Refereed)
10.
Frank
RG and Wong R. “Empirical
Considerations for Models of Female Labor Supply and Fertility in Developed
Countries,” In Research on Human Capital and Development Frank RG,
Siragelden I and Sorkin A (Eds.), Greenwich CT: JAI Press 1990, 3-16.
(Refereed)
11.
Goldman
HH and Frank RG. “Division of
Responsibility Among Payers,” In Mental Health Policy for Older Americans
Fogel G, Gottlieb G and Furino A (Eds.), Washington, DC: American Psychiatric
Press, Inc. 1990, 85-95.
12.
Frank
RG, Lave JR, Taube CA, et al. “The
Impact of Medicare's Prospective Payment System on Psychiatric Patients Treated
in Scatterbeds,” In Advances in Health Economics Health Services Research
Scheffler R and McGuire TG (Eds.), Greenwich: JAI Press 1987, 1-21. (Refereed)
13.
Frank
RG and Lave JR. “Economic Aspects of Managed
Mental Health Care,” In Managed Mental Health Services Feldman S (Ed.),
San Francisco: Charles C. Thomas, 1991, 83-101.
14.
Frank
RG and Gaynor M. “Incentives in
Intergovernmental Transfers: Mental Health Services in the US,” In Public
Finance with Several Levels of Government Prud’homme R (Ed.), 1991.
15.
Frank
RG. “Economic Aspects of Litigation for
Harm Due to Lead Poisoning,” In Lead and Human Health Needleman H (Ed.),
Chicago: CRC Press 1991.
16.
Frank
RG and Dewa C. “Towards a Research
Agenda on the Economics of Mental Health Care for Children and Adolescents,” In
A System of Care for Children's Mental Health Algarin A and Freidman R
(Eds.), Tampa: Florida Mental Health Institute 1991.
17.
Salkever
DS and Frank RG. “The Role of Nonprofit
Firms in the Health Sector,” In Who Benefits: The Distributional
Consequences of the Nonprofit Sector Clofelter C (Ed.) Chicago: University
of Chicago Press 1992. (Refereed)
18.
Frank
RG. “Economics Aspects of Investments
in Prevention of Mental Disorder in Children and Adolescents,” In Proceedings
of the NIMH Conference of Financing of Children's Mental Health Services
Washington, DC: USGPO 1992,
19.
Goldman
HH and Frank RG. “Organization and
Financing Care for the Chronically Mentally Ill in the United States,” In Mental
Health Services in the United States and England: Struggling for Change,
Fransen VE (Ed.), Princeton, NJ: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation 1991, 47-54.
20.
Davis
K and Frank RG. “Integrating Cost and
Outcomes,” In Evaluating Children's Mental Health Services: Methodological
Issues Bickman L and Rog D (Eds.), San Francisco: Jossey-Bass 1992.
21.
Frank
RG and Salkever DS. “Do Public Mental
Hospitals Crowd-Out Care for Indigent Psychiatric Patients in Non-profit
General Hospitals?” In Economics and Mental Health Frank RG and Manning
WG (Eds.), Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press 1992 (Refereed).
22.
Frank
RG and Gaynor MS. “Determinants of the
Organization of Public Mental Health Systems,” In Advances in Health
Economics and Health Services Research Hu TWand Rupp A (Eds.), Greenwich
CT: JAI Press 1993, 181-196.
23.
Frank
RG. “Cost-Benefit Evaluations in Mental
Health: Implications for Financing Policy,” In Advances in Health Economics
and Health Services Research Hu TW and Rupp A (Eds.), Greenwich CT: JAI
Press 1993, 1-16.
24.
Frank
RG, Goldman HH, McGuire TG. “Insuring
Severe Mental Disorders: A Comparison of Approaches,” In The Economics of
Schizophrenia Moscarelli M (Ed.), New York: Wiley and Sons 1996.
25.
Goldman
HH, Frank RG and McGuire TG. “Mental
Health and Long-term Care,” In Critical Issues in U.S. Health Care Reform
Ginzberg E (Ed.), Boulder, CO: Westview Press 1994.
26.
Frank
RG and McGuire TG. “Health Reform and
Financing of Mental Health Services: Distributional Consequences,” In Mental
Health U.S. Manderscheid R (Ed.), Washington: USGPO 1994.
27.
Frank
RG and McGuire TG. “An Introduction to
the Economics of Mental Health Payment Systems,” In Mental Health Services:
A Public Health Perspective Levin BL and Petrila J (Eds.), Oxford UK:
Oxford University Press 1995.
28.
Frank
RG and McGuire TG. “Federal Health
Financing Reform and State Mental Health Policy,” In Health Care Reform and
the States White W and Rich R (Eds.), 1996.
29.
Spencer
C, Frank RG and McGuire TG. “How Should
the Profit Motive be used in Managed Care,” In Controversies in Managed
Mental Health Care Lazarus A (Ed.), Washington: APA Press, 1996.
30.
Frank
RG and McGuire TG. “Managing Care for
Individuals with Severe Mental Illness,” In Strategic Choices for a Changing
Health Care System Altman S and Reinhart U (Eds.), Health Administration
Press, 1996.
31.
Salkever
DS and Frank RG. “Economic Issues in
Vaccine Purchase Agreements,” In Supplying Vaccine: A Economic Analysis of
Critical Issues Pauly M (Ed.), IOS Press, 1996.
32.
Spencer
CS and Frank RG. “The Cost of
Residential Schools for Children with Severe Emotional Disturbance,” In Proceedings
Conference on Children's Mental Health Services Friedman R (Ed.), Tampa:
University of South Florida, 1996.
33.
Frank
RG, McGuire TG, Notman EH, and Woodward RM.
“Developments in Medicaid Behavioral Health Care,” In Mental Health
U.S. 1996 Manderscheid R and Sonnerscheid MA (Eds.), Washington: USGPO,
1996.
34.
Frank
RG and McGuire TG. “The Economics of
Behavioral Health Carve-Outs,” In New Directions for Mental Health Care
Mechanic D (Ed.), San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Inc., 78:41-47, 1998.
35.
Frank
RG. “Comments on Chapter 2,” In Growth
in Disability Benefits, Explanations and Policy Implications Rupp K and
Stapleton DC (Eds.), Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research,
103-108, 1998.
36.
Ettner
SL and Frank RG. “The Use of Risk
Adjustment to Set Capitation Rates,” In Mental Health U.S. 1998
Manderscheid R and Henderson M (Eds.), Washington: USGPO, 1998.
37.
Frank
RG, Berndt E, Busch SH. “Price Indexes
for the Treatment of Depression,” In Measuring the Prices of Medical
Treatment Triplett JE (Ed.) Washington: Brookings Institution Press, 1999.
38.
Frank
RG and McGuire TG. “Pricing Psychotherapy,” In Cost-Effectiveness of
Psychotherapy Miller NE and Magruder K (Eds.), New York: Oxford University
Press, 1999.
39.
Frank
RG and Salkever DS. “Market Forces,
Diversification of Activity, and the Mission of Not-for-Profit Hospitals,” In The
Changing Hospital Industry Cutler DM (Ed.), Chicago: University of Chicago
Press for the National Bureau of Economic Research, 2000.
40.
Frank
RG and McGuire TG. “Economics and
Mental Health,” In Handbook of Health Economics Newhouse JP and Cuyler A
(Eds.), Amsterdam: North Holland, (In Press).
41.
Berndt
ER, Cutler DM, Frank RG, Griliches Z, Newhouse JP, and Triplett JE. “Medical Care Prices and Output,” In Handbook
of Health Economics Newhouse JP and Cuyler A (Eds.), Amsterdam: North
Holland, 2000.
42.
Lave
JR and Frank RG. “Incorporating
Cost-Effectiveness Analyses into Clinical Trials,” In Biostatistics in Clinical
Trials Redmond CK and Colton T (Eds.), Chichester: John Wiley and Sons,
Ltd., 2001.
43.
Frank
RG, “A Comment on Phillipson and Lakawalla,” In Medical Output and
Productivity Berndt ER and Cutler DM (Eds.), Chicago: University of Chicago
Press for the National Bureau of Economic Research, 2001.
44.
Berndt
ER, Busch SH, and Frank RG. “Price
Indexes for Acute Phase Treatment of Depression,” In Medical Output and
Productivity Cutler DM and Berndt ER (Eds.), Chicago: University of Chicago
Press for the National Bureau of Economic Research, 2001.
45.
Busch
SH, Berndt ER and Frank RG, “Creating Price Indexes for Measuring Productivity
in Mental Health Care,” In Frontiers of Health Policy Garber A (Ed.),
Chicago: University of Chicago Press for the National Bureau of Economic
Research, Vol. 4, 2001.
Book Reviews
1.
Frank
RG. “Professionalism and the Public
Interest,” Journal of Health Politics
Policy and Law (Book Review), 7(3):746-748, Fall 1982.
2.
Frank
RG. “Medical Costs, Moral Choices,” Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law
(Book Review), 9(3):529-532, Fall 1984.
3.
Frank
RG. “Mental Health and National Health
Insurance,” Journal of Health Politics
Policy and Law (Book Review), 10(1):195-197, Spring 1985.
4.
Frank
RG. “Is Prevention Better Than Cure?” Journal of Economic Literature (Book
Review), 24(4):1851-52, December 1986.
5.
Frank
RG. “Review Essay, Measuring the
Economics of Health,” Journal of Health
Politics Policy and Law (Book Review), 21(3), 1996.
Refereed Letters
1.
Frank
RG. “Economics and Mental Health
Services,” American Psychologist,
36(6):692-693, 1981.
2.
Needleman
HL and Frank RG. “Letter on Lead
Screening Cost Effectiveness,” New
England Journal of Medicine, 1269-70, November 11,1982.
3.
Frank
RG. “Letter on Cost Effectiveness of Clozapine,”
Hospital and Community Psychiatry,
42(1):92, 1991.
4.
Frank
RG, Koyanagi C, McGuire TG. “Mental
Health Parity: The Authors Respond,” Health
Affairs, 16(6):257-258, 1997.
Monographs
1.
Frank
RG and McGuire TG. A Review of
Demand and Utilization of Specialty Mental Health Services American
Psychiatric Association Press, Washington, DC 1984.
2.
Frank
RG (Guest Editor with Scheffler, R.M.)
Special Issue, Inquiry
26(2), Summer 1989.
3.
Siragelden
I, Sorkin A, Frank RG. (Editors) Research
on Human Capital and Development, JAI Press, Greenwich, CT 1990.
4.
Frank
RG and Manning WG. (Editors) Economics
and Mental Health, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD 1992.
5.
Frank
RG, McGuire TG and Goldman HH. Buying
in the Public Interest, Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, Washington,
DC 1996.
6.
Edmunds
M, Frank RG, Hogan M, et al. Managing
Managed Care: Quality Improvement in Behavioral Health, Institute of
Medicine, National Academy Press, Washington, DC, 1996.
7.
Frank RG, Morlock LL. Managing
Fragmented Public Mental Health Services, Milbank Memorial Fund: New York,
NY, 1997.
Grants Received (PI or Co-PI Only)
1979 The Impact of Licensing Laws
and Insurance Reimbursement Provisions on Mental Health Delivery,
Co-Principal Investigator with TG. McGuire and A. Klevroick
Source:
Foundations’ Fund for Research in Psychiatry
1981 A Study of Production and
Cost in Mental Hospitals Using the Economics of the Multiproduct Firm
Source: National
Institute of Mental Health
1982 A Critical Review of the Literature
of Utilization and Demand for Mental Health Services
Source: American Psychiatric Association
1983 HMO Costs: A National Sample
Co-Principal Investigator
with WP. Welch
Source: NCHSR
1983 Health Econometric Methods
for Multimedia Pollutants
Co-Principal Investigator
with HL. Needleman, M. Grossman, D. Coate, F. Goldman, M. Kamlet
Source:
Environmental Protection Agency
1983 The Economic Consequences
of Low Level Lead Exposure
Co-Principal Investigator with HL. Needleman
Source: Environmental
Protection Agency
1984 Medicaid Financing
Policy
Biomedical Science Research
Grant
Source: NIH/Johns
Hopkins University
1986 Medicaid Financing
of Psychiatric Patients
Co-Principal Investigator with JR. Lave
Source: NIMH
1986 New Investigator Research Award
Source: National
Institute of Mental Health
1986 Financing Prenatal
Care for the Poor and Uninsured
Principal Investigator with D. Strobino and D. Salkever
1986 Hospital Services
for the Poor and Uninsured
Co-Principal Investigator
with D. Salkever, Principal Investigator
Source: NCHSR
1987 Assistant Director
Center for Organization and Financing of the SMI
Co-Investigator with D. Steinwachs, Principal
Investigator
Source: NIMH
1988 First Research Award
Source: National
Institute of Mental Health
1989 A Randomized Evaluation of
COSTAR Source
Principal Investigator with
W. Breakey
Source: Kaiser Family Foundation
1990 The Role of Nonprofit
Providers: Policy Impacts
Co-Principal Investigator
with D. Salkever, Principal Investigator
Source: NIAAA
1991 Public Financing Structures
in Mental Health
Source: Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation
1992 State Mental Health Policy
Studies
Co-Principal Investigator
with TG. McGuire, Principal Investigator
Source: NIMH
1992 Schizophrenia PORT
Task Leader &
Co-Principal Investigator with T. Lehman, Principal Investigator
Source: AHCPR
1993 Market for Residential and
Day Treatment
Source: NIMH
1994 Reforming Mental
Health/Substance Abuse Care
Source: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
1994 Risk Adjustment for Mental
Health and Substance Abuse
Source: HCFA
1995 Brandeis-Harvard
University Center on Managed Care and Drug Abuse
Co-Principal Investigator
Source: NIDA
1995 Sloan-Harvard Center on
Managed Care
Deputy Director
Source: Sloan
Foundation
1997 Measuring Systems Cost
Effectiveness for Depression
Principal Investigator
Source: MacArthur
Foundation
1997 Management Incentives and
Therapeutic Choice in Behavioral Health Care
Principal Investigator
Source: Lilly
1998 Organizational Factors and
Financial Incentive within Physician Groups
Co-Principal Investigator
Source:
California HealthCare Foundation
1999 Analysis of the Department
of Veterans Affairs National Formulary
Principal Investigator
Source: IOM
2000 Price Index for Mental Health Treatments
Principal
Investigator
2000 Primary Care Treatment of Depression
Principal Investigator
Source: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
2001 Direct to Consumer Advertising of Prescription Drugs
Principal Investigator
Source: Kaiser Family Foundation
2001 Evaluation of Three Tiered Formularies
Principal Investigator
Source: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Associate Editor, Journal
of Health Economics
Editorial Board, Journal
of Health Politics, Policy and Law
Editorial Board, Journal
of Mental Health Administration
Editorial Board, Journal
of Mental Health Policy and Economics
Editorial Board, Health
Affairs
Contributing Editor, Administration
and Policy in Mental Health
Referee, Alcoholism:
Clinical and Experimental Research
Referee, American
Economic Review
Referee, American Journal
of Epidemiology
Referee, American Journal
of Psychiatry
Referee, American Journal
of Public Health
Referee, Cambridge
University Press
Referee, Canadian Journal
of Economics
Referee, Duke University
Press
Referee, Economic Inquiry
Referee, Family Planning
Perspectives
Referee, Health Policy
Quarterly
Referee, Health Services
Research
Referee, Hospital and
Community Psychiatry
Referee, Inquiry
Referee, JAMA
Referee, Johns Hopkins
Press
Referee, Journal of
Behavioral Toxicology
Referee, Journal of
Health Economics
Referee, Journal of
Health Policy
Referee, Journal of
Health Politics, Policy and Law
Referee, Journal of Human
Resources
Referee, Journal of the
American Statistical Association
Referee, Medical Care
Referee, Millbank
Memorial Fund Quarterly
Referee, Psychological
Bulletin
Referee, Public Finance
Quarterly
Referee, Rand Journal of
Economics
Referee, Review of
Economics and Statistics
Referee, Social Science
and Medicine
Referee, Southern
Economic Journal
Consultations and Service
Co-Chair: Fourth and Fifth Biennial NIMH Conferences
on the Economics of Mental Health
Co-Chair: State of Maryland, Mental Health Mandate
Review Panel, 1990 - 91
Member: NIMH Panel on Services Research Priorities
for the Severely Mentally Ill
Member: American Psychiatric Association, Committee
on the Future of Financing of Mental Health Services
Member: Governor’s Committee on the Uninsured, 1988
- 91
Member: Technical Advisory Panel, RWJ/HCFO
Initiative, 1988 - 92
Member: Executive Committee, Health Economics
Committee APHA, Medical Care Section, 1990 - 92
Member: OTA Panel on Defensive Medicine, 1992 - 93
Member: Advisory Panel, Southeastern Rural Mental
Health Research Center, 1993 - 1995
Member: NIAAA Panel of Effectiveness Research, 1994
- 96
Member: Institute of Medicine, Committee on
Accreditation of MBHC, 1996
Member: Board on Neuroscience and Behavioral Health,
Institute of Medicine, 1998 - Present
Contract Reviewer: National Institute of Mental Health
Contract Reviewer: HCFA
Reviewer: USGAO
Grant Review
Consultant: National Institute of
Mental Health
Consultant: Veterans Administration: Health Services
Research Grants Program
Consultant: Carter Center - Emory University
Consultant: American Psychiatric Association
Consultant: American Psychological Association
Consultant: State of Massachusetts Medicaid Program
Consultant: State of Ohio Department of Mental Health
Consultant: City of New York Office of Mental Health
Teaching
Courses Taught:
Microeconomic Models in
Public Health Economics
Empirical Basis of Mental
Health Policy
Intermediate Microeconomic
Theory
Health Economics
Public Finance
Mathematical Methods in
Public Health Economics
Introduction to Health Care
Policy
Co-Director, Mental Health
Policy Training Program (Harvard), 1994 - Present
Co-Director OR/Economics and
Mental Health Training Program (Johns Hopkins), 1986-1990
Principal Investigator of
Economics and Mental Health Training Program (Johns Hopkins), 1991-1994
Director, MHS Program in
Health Finance and Management (Johns Hopkins), 1985-1987
Academic Responsibilities
Committee on Higher Degrees
in Health Policy
University Benefits
Committee
Standing Committee on
Conflict of Interest
Selected Presentations
Seminars and Invited Lectureships
Production Functions for
Inpatient Mental Health Care (World Congress on Health Economics), September
1980 with L. Kessler, Leyden, Holland.
The Shrinking of State
Mental Hospital Systems (Public Choice Society), March 1981 with W. P. Welch,
New Orleans, LA.
Pricing and Location of
Physician Services in Mental Health (Atlantic Economic Association), August
1981, London, England.
Multi Product Production and
Cost Function for Mental Hospitals (American Public Health Association),
November 1982 with W. P. Welch, Montreal, Canada.
Mental Health, Social Costs
and Primary Prevention (Invited Paper, World Federation for Mental Health),
July 1983, Washington, DC.
Demand and Utilization of
Mental Health Services: A Review of the Evidence (American Public Health
Association), November 1983, Dallas, TX.
Keynote Speaker (Annual
Meeting Pennsylvania Psychiatric Society), October 1984.
The Effect of Benefit Design
on the Length of Stay of Medicaid Psychiatric Patients (NIMH Conference on the
Economics of Mental Health), October 1984 with J.R. Lave, Berkeley, CA.
Sorting Out the Competitive
Effects of HMOs (American Economic Association Meetings), December 1984 with
W.P. Welch, Dallas, TX.
Evaluating the Costs of
Chronic Mental Disabilities (Conference on the Economics of Disability), April
1985 with H.H. Goldman, Washington, DC.
Keynote Address (New
Hampshire State Legislature Conference on Mandated Mental Health Insurance
Benefits), January 1986, Concord, NH.
The Impact of PPS on
Psychiatric Patients Treated in Scatterbeds (Conference on the Economics of
Mental Health), July 1986, Andover, MA.
Economic Rents Derived from
Hospital Privileges in the Market for Podiatric Services (MIT/Harvard Health
Economics Seminar), April 1987, Cambridge, MA.
Regulatory Responses to
Information Deficiency in the Market for Mental Health Services (Invited, Paper
Conference on the Future of Mental Health Services).
Provider Choice for the
Treatment of Mental Disorder: The Impact of Health and Mental Health Status
(Association for Health Services Research), June 1987.
A Review of Research on PPS
(Presentation to NIMH Review Panel on Prospective Payment Research), June 1987.
Economic Aspects of
Investments in Prevention of Mental Disorders in Children and Adolescents (NIMH
Conference on Financing of Mental Health Services for Children and
Adolescents), February 1988.
Provider Response to Payment
Methods for Psychiatric Patients (Rutgers University, Center on Organization
and Financing of Care for the SMI), April 1989.
Pure Versus Impure Altruism
in the Non-Profit Firm’s Supply of Charity Care (RAND Conference on Health
Economics), March 1990.
Pricing, Patent Loss and the
Market for Pharmaceuticals (Conference on Government Policies and
Pharmaceutical R&D Policy: Sponsored by OTA and UC-Santa Barbara) September
1990 with David Salkever.
Financing Structures in the
RWJ/HUD Program for the Chronically Mentally Ill (APHA Annual Meeting), October
1990, New York, NY.
The Health Sector
(Conference on Distributional Impacts of the Nonprofit Sector, Duke
University), November 1990, Durham, NC.
Government, Markets and
Madness: Public Financing of Mental Health Care (Dean’s Lecture, Johns Hopkins
University) December 1991, Baltimore, MD.
All-Payer Price Setting in
Maryland: Confessions of a Skeptical Regulator (Harvard Medical School), Spring
1992, Boston, MA.
A Model Mental Health
Insurance Plan (Annual Conference of NAMI), August 1992, Washington, DC.
Public Financing of Mental
Health Care in a Multi-level, Multi-agency Environment (NATO Advanced Research
Workshop), September 1993, II Ciocco, Italy.
The Uninsured and Mental
Health Coverage: Implications for Health Reform (7th Biennial Conference on the
Economics of Mental Health), September 1994.
Economics and the New Market
for Mental Health Care (Plenary Address to NIMH Conference on Services
Research), 1995
Brand Name Pricing of Drugs
in Response to Generic Entry (2nd Biennial Conference on I-O and Health),
September 1995, Boston, MA.
Key Note Address (12th
Annual Rosalynn Carter Symposium on Mental Health Policy), November 1996,
Atlanta, GA.
Constructing
Quality-Adjusted Producer and Consumer Price Indexes for the Treatment of Acute
Phase Depression: An Exploratory Analysis (NBER Summer Institute), July 1997,
Cambridge, MA.
Price Indexes for Depression
(University of Pittsburgh - Carnegie Mellon University Applied Microeconomics
Workshop), March 1998, Pittsburgh, PA.
Expenditures, Productivity,
and Cost Effectiveness (Carl A. Taube Award Address, APHA), November 1998,
Washington, DC.
Parity for Mental Health
(American Enterprise Institute), December 1999, Washington, DC.
Economic Issues and Parity
Within the FEHBP (RWJF/OPM Conference on Parity), June 2000, Washington, DC.
Price Indexes for Depression
(Department of Economics, Columbia University), December 2000, New York, NY.
The Economics of Direct to
Consumer Advertising of Prescription Drugs (ASPE Conference on DTCA), June 2001
Legislative Testimony
New York State Assembly Bill
A65 09: “Economic Issues Surrounding the Recognition of Psychologists Under
Worker’s Compensation,” Prepared supporting material for New York State
Assembly Bill (May 1981).
Pennsylvania H.B. 665:
“Mandated Availability of Coverage for Mental Health Services in Private
Insurance: Some Economic Issues,” Testimony Before Pennsylvania House of
Representatives Committee on Insurance (December 1981).
Pennsylvania H.B. 1132: Mandated
Coverage of Alcohol Drug Abuse and Mental Health Services,” Testimony Before
House Committee on Insurance (August 1983).
Virginia Legislature:
“Mandated Mental Health Benefits,” Prepared supporting material for Virginia
Legislature (Winter 1989 and Fall 1990).
“Economic Issues and the
Provision of Child Mental Health Services,” Testimony Presented at National
Hearing on Mental Health in America, Los Angeles, CA (October 1990).
Virginia Legislature:
“Mandated Mental Health Benefits: Flexibility,” Testimony Before Virginia
Legislature (July 1992).
Congressional Briefing for
House Mental Health Study Group, U.S. House of Representatives (October 1993).
Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources, Hearings on Mental Health and Health Reform (November 8, 1993).
Senate Committee on Labor
and Human Resources, Hearings on Parity for Substance Abuse Coverage, (July 28,
1998).
Membership in Professional
Societies
American Economic
Association
Association for Health
Services Research
American Public Health
Association
International Health
Economics Association