Professor Roger Feldman is the Blue Cross Professor of Health Insurance and Professor of Economics.  Dr. Feldman was a Marshall Scholar at the London School of Economics and holds a PhD in economics from the University of Rochester.  His research covers the organization, financing, and delivery of health care with a focus on health insurance.  He also studies competition among health care providers and insurers.  Currently, he is evaluating several "consumer-driven" health plans, including one where employers contract directly with providers to purchase health care services, and the early experience of a defined-contribution health plan.  Dr. Feldman's experience in health care policy includes serving on the Senior Staff of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, where he was the lead author of a chapter in the 1985 Economic Report of the President .  From 1988 to 1992, he directed one of the four national research centers sponsored by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), and recently he advised CMS on a demonstration of competitive pricing for Medicare M+C plans.  Dr. Feldman is a regular contributor to journals in economics and health services research.  His research has received four "best paper" awards from the Association for Health Services Research and the National Institute of Health Care Management.  He has been a consultant to the U.S. Department of Justice and several state regulatory agencies regarding health plan mergers and ownership changes.
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Selected publications include: "The Effect of Health Plan Characteristics on Medicare+Choice Enrollment," (with B. Dowd and R. Coulman), Health Services Research, forthcoming. "Policy Watch: The Federal Employees Health Benefits Plan," (with K. Thorpe and B. Gray), Journal of Economic Perspectives 16:2 (2002): 207-217. "Measuring Consumer Perceptions of Quality Differences Among Competing Health Benefit Plans," (with K. Harris and J. Shultz), Journal of Health Economics 21:1 (2002): 1-17.