Roger Feldman, Ph.D.

Ph.D., Economics, University of Rochester, 1976

M.S., Economics, Marshall Scholar, London School of Economics, 1969

B.S., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1967

Research Interests:

Competition among health care providers and mergers among hospitals and HMOs; health economics and health insurance

Recent Publications:

Coulam, Robert, Roger Feldman, and Bryan Dowd, It’s Time to Bring Competitive Prices to Medicare, Washington, DC: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, forthcoming, 2009.

Frakt, Austin B., Steven D. Pizer, and Roger Feldman, “The Effect of Changing the Payment Rate for Medicare Private Fee for Service Plans,” Health Care Financing Review, forthcoming, 2009.

Feldman, Roger, “Quality of Care in Single-Payer and Multi-Payer Health Systems,” Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law, forthcoming, 2009.

Pizer, Steven D., Austin B. Frakt, and Roger Feldman, “Something for Nothing: Paying Twice for Drug Benefits in Medicare HMOs,” International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics (2008), doi:10.1007/s10754-008-9047-x.

Parente, Stephen T., Roger Feldman, and Song Chen, “The Effects of a Consumer Driven Health Plan on Pharmaceutical Spending and Utilization: Do Three-Tier Plans Have a Competitor?” Health Services Research, 43:5 (October, 2008), pp. 1542-1556.

Feldman, Roger, How to Fix Medicare: Let’s Pay Patients, not Physicians, Washington, DC: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 2008.

Feldman, Roger, Stephen T. Parente, and Jon B. Christianson, “Consumer Directed Health Plans: New Evidence on Spending and Utilization,” Inquiry, 44:1 (Spring, 2007), pp. 26-40.

Professional Experience:

Blue Cross Professor of Health Insurance and Professor of Economics, Division of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, 1995-present

Interim Division Head, Division of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, 2004-2005

Professor, Associate, and Assistant Professor, Division of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, 1978 - 1995

Visiting Professor, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, 1993

Senior Economist, President's Council of Economic Advisors, 1984 - 1985

Assistant Professor of Economics and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Health Administration, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1976 - 1978

Honors:

Two “Annual Research Awards” from the National Institute for Health Care Management:

2000: Kralewski, John E., Eugene C. Rich, Roger Feldman, Bryan E. Dowd, Terence Bernhardt, Christopher Johnson, and William Gold, "The Effects of Medical Group Practice and Physician Payment Methods on Costs of Care," Health Services Research, 35:2 (August, 2000), pp. 591-613.

1995: Wholey, Douglas, Roger Feldman, and Jon B. Christianson, "The Effect of Market Structure on HMO Premiums," Journal of Health Economics, 14:1 (May, 1995), pp. 81-105.

Two “Article of the Year Awards” from the Association for Health Services Research:

2000: Kralewski, et al., op cit.

1993: Feldman, Roger, Greg Gifford and Bryan Dowd, "Effect of HMOs on Premiums in Employment-Based Health Plans," Health Services Research, 27:6 (February, 1993), pp. 779-811.

Marshall Scholar, London School of Economics, 1967-69

Contact

Mailing Address:
Health Policy and Management
420 Delaware St SE, MMC 729
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Phone (Work): (612) 624-5669

Email: feldm002@umn.edu