John A. Nyman, Ph.D.

Ph.D., Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1984

M.S., Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison

M.A., History, University of Illinois-Champaign-Urbana

B.A., History, Lawrence University

Courses

PubH 6832 Economics of the Health Care System - Course Description and Syllabus

PubH 6861 Health Insurance (with Roger Feldman) - Course Description and Syllabus

PubH 6862 Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Health Care - Course Description and Syllabus

Fall 2009
6832: Economics of the Health Care System

Spring 2010
6862: Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Health Care

Research Interests:

Nursing home behavior and long-term care policy, the theory of insurance and health insurance, cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analysis, especially of new health care technologies and drugs, the behavior of physicians, and gambling as a public health issue.

Recent Publications:

Nyman, John A., Nathan A. Barleen, Bryan E. Dowd. “A Return-on-Investment Analysis of the Health Promotion Program at the University of Minnesota,” Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine vol. 51, no. 1, January 2009, pp. 54-65.

Nyman, John A., John W. Welte, Bryan E. Dowd. “Something for Nothing: A Model of Gambling Behavior,” Journal of Socio-Economics vol. 37, no. 6, December 2008, pp. 2492-2504.

Nyman, John A., Nathan A Barleen, Phatta Kirdruang. “Quality-adjusted Life Years Lost from Motor Vehicle Accident Injuries,” Medical Decision Making vol. 28, no. 6, November-December 2008, pp. 819-828.

Nyman, John A. “Health Insurance Theory: The Case of the Missing Welfare Gain,” European Journal of Health Economics vol. 9, no. 4, November 2008, pp. 369-380.

Nyman, John A. "Health Plan Switching and Attrition Bias in the RAND Health Insurance Experiment," Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law vol. 33, no. 2, April 2008, pp. 309-17.

Nyman, John A. "American Health Policy: Cracks in the Foundation,"
Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law vol. 32, no. 5, October 2007, pp. 759-783.

Nyman, John A., Nathan A. Barleen, Bryan E. Dowd, Daniel W. Russell, Stephen Joel Coons, Patrick W. Sullivan. "Quality-of-Life Weights for the US Population: Self-Reported Health Status and priority Health Conditions, by Demographic Characteristics," Medical Care vol. 45, no. 7, July 2007, pp. 618-28.

Nyman, John A. “The Value of Health Insurance,” in The Elgar Companion to Health Economics, Andrew M. Jones, editor. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2006.

Nyman, John A. “Should the Consumption of Survivors be Included as a Cost in Cost-Utility Analysis?” Health Economics vol. 13, no. 5, May 2004, pp. 417-427.

Nyman, John A. The Theory of Demand for Health Insurance. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003.

Nyman, John A., Melissa S. Martinson, David Nelson, Sean Nugent, Dorothea Collins, Janet Wittes, Carol L. Fye, Timothy J. Wilt, Sander J. Robins, Hanna Bloomfield Rubins. "Cost Effectiveness of Gemfibrozil for Coronary Patients with Low Levels of High Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol," Archives of Internal Medicine vol. 162, no. 2, January 28, 2002, pp.177-184.

Nyman, John A. "The Economics of Moral Hazard Revisited," Journal of Health Economics, vol. 18, no. 6, December 1999, pp. 811-824.

Nyman, John A. "The Value of Health Insurance: The Access Motive," Journal of Health Economics, vol. 18, no. 2, April 1999, pp. 141-152.

Nyman, John A., Willard G. Manning, Simonetti Samuels and Bernard F. Morrey. "Can Specialists Reduce Care Costs? The Case of Orthopaedic Surgeons," Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research no. 350, 1998, pp. 257-267.

Nyman, John A. and Robert A. Connor. "Do Case-Mix Adjusted Nursing Home Reimbursements Actually Reflect Costs? Minnesota's Experience." Journal of Health Economics vol. 13, no. 2, July 1994, pp. 145-162.

Nyman, John A. "Costs, Technology, and Insurance in the Health Care Sector," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management vol. 10, no. 1, Winter 1991, pp. 106-111.

Nyman, John A. "The Private Demand for Nursing Home Care," Journal of Health Economics vol. 8, no. 2, June 1989, pp. 209-231.

Nyman, John A., and Dennis L. Bricker. "Profit Incentives and Technical Efficiency in the Production of Nursing Home Care," Review of Economics and Statistics vol. 71, no. 4, November 1989, pp. 586-594.

Nyman, John A. "The Marginal Cost of Nursing Home Care: New York, 1983," Journal of Health Economics vol. 7, no. 4, December 1988, pp. 393-412.

Nyman, John A. "Excess Demand, the Percentage of Medicaid Patients and the Quality of Nursing Home Care," Journal of Human Resources vol. 23, no. 1, Winter 1988, pp. 76-92.

Nyman, John A. "Prospective and 'Cost-Plus' Medicaid Reimbursement, Excess Demand, and the Quality of Nursing Home Care." Journal of Health Economics vol. 4, no. 3, September 1985, pp.237-259.

Professional Experience:

Assistant, Associate and Full Professor, Division of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, July 1988 to present

Assistant Professor, Graduate Program in Hospital and Health Administration, College of Medicine, University of Iowa, June 1984 - August 1988

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Illinois State University, August 1981 - June 1984

Teaching Assistant and Head Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin, January 1977 - May 1981

Honors:

2005 Leonard M. Schuman Excellence in Teaching Award from the School of Public Health, University of Minnesota

1993 Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching from the Program for Hospital and Health Care Administration, University of Minnesota

1987 - 88 Burlington-Northern Faculty Achievement Award, The University of Iowa. This university-wide competitive award was "made in recognition of excellence in classroom teaching and professional scholarship...which directly enhance[s] the effectiveness of the nominee's teaching the subject content of her or his field."

National Institute of Mental Health Traineeship, University of Wisconsin, January 1980 to January 1981

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Rand Experiment

Click here to download "American Health Policy: Cracks in the Foundation" (Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law) by John Nyman

Click here to download "Health Plan Switching and Attrition Bias in the RAND Health Insurance Experiment" (Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law) by John Nyman

Click here to download "Attrition and the RAND Health Insurance Experiment," which was my reply to Newhouse et al.'s original response to my 2007 JHPPL article, as posted on Newhouse's Harvard website in October, 2007

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Contact

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

Phone (Work): (612) 626-4425

Email: nyman001@umn.edu n