1989 to Present
for articles published prior to 1989, click here.

  • Impact of the Rising Cost of Medical Care, a briefing paper for the National League of Cities’ Risk Information Sharing Consortium, October 2008.

  • Restoring Fiscal Sanity 2007: The Health Spending Challenge (Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2007, Alice Rivlin and Joe Antos, editors), a book review in the February 2008 issue of HFM Journal, a monthly publication of the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA).

  • Prevalence of Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD) Implants in the USA, in the Alliance of Cardiovascular Professionals (ACVP) Newsletter, Vol. 48, No. 4, September/October 2005 [co-authored with Wade M. Aubry, M.D.].

  • Pharmacoeconomic Considerations for Successful Smoking Cessation in Viewpoints, Vol. 2, August 1996.

  • Medicare Risk Contracting is a Risky Yet Potentially Profitable Game in Health Care Strategic Management, Vol. 14, No. 7, July 1996.

  • Package Pricing Roils Cardiac, Orthopedic Services in Health Care Strategic Management, Vol. 14, No. 6, June 1996 [co-authored with Richard Kraft, M.D., F.A.C.S.]

  • Integrated Health Care Systems: Alliances for Integration (Part 2) in Group Practice Journal, Vol. 43, No. 4, July/August 1994 [co-authored with Anne Findlay Vail, Esq.].

  • Integrated Health Care Systems: Alliances for Integration (Part 1) in Group Practice Journal, Vol. 43, No. 3, May/June 1994 [co-authored with Anne Findlay Vail, Esq.].

  • Implications of Healthcare Reform for Cardiologists in The Journal of Invasive Cardiology, Vol. 6, No. 2, March 1994.

  • Strategies for Healthcare Reform, a brochure printed by Biosound, Inc., Indianapolis, IN (800-428-4374), November 1993.

  • The Interdependence of Management Outcomes and Cooperation in Outcomes Research: A Conversation with Robert H. Brook, M.D., Sc.D. (Director of the Health Sciences Program at The RAND Corporation) in General Electric Medical Systems' Decisions in Imaging Economics, Fall 1992.

  • Medicare Prospective Payment System for Inpatient Hospital Services in The Journal of Cardiovascular Management, July/August 1992.

  • Medicare Physician Fee Schedule in MedProMonth, September 1991.

  • Prospective Payment for Inpatient Capital Costs in Decisions in Imaging Economics, Summer 1991.

  • Coping with DRG 127 Fiscal Shock in HealthWeek, March 25, 1991.

  • Hospital Strategic Growth through Mergers, Acquisitions and Alliances in Decisions in Imaging Economics, Autumn 1990.

  • New Approaches to Preventing Preterm Birth: Solving A Common and Costly Problem in the Journal of Insurance Medicine, Fall 1990 [co-authored with John C. Morrison, M.D., professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Mississippi].

  • Medical Technology Assessment: Gaining New Momentum in Decisions in Imaging Economics, July 1990.

  • Quality of Outcomes Will be Key to Hospital Resource Allocation in the 1990s in The Medical Business Journal, December 31, 1989.

  • Which Patients Seek Lithotripsy Treatment? in HealthWeek, December 4, 1989.

  • Toward Measurement of Health Care in Decisions in Imaging Economics, September 1989 [co-authored with John L. Smith, M.D., former president of the Scripps Medical Group in La Jolla, California].

  • Physician Payment, On the Hsiao Model, Headed for Quick O.K. in The Medical Business Journal, June 30, 1989.

  • Physician Payment: Congress' Reformed Response in Decisions in Imaging Economics, June 1989.

  • Further Medicare Cuts Appear Inevitable, Given Program's Growth Rate, and Potential for Catastrophic Care Spending in The Medical Business Journal, February 14, 1989. Reprinted in Overview of Medicare Program (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, Senate Hearing 101-35, March 3, 1989, pp. 192-193).

 

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