Miriam Laugesen

Education and Training

Post-Doctoral Fellow (Health Services Research) 8/2001-7/2003

RAND Corporation & University of California, Los Angeles

Training Program in Health Services Research

Ph.D. (Political Science) 07/1996-12/2000

University of Melbourne, Australia

Special Student (Health Policy and Government) 9/1996-06/1997

Ph.D. Program in Health Policy Harvard University

Master of Arts (Political Science) 1993

Washington University in St. Louis

B.A. Hons (1st Class) (Public Administration and Politics) 1992

Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Academic Appointments

Columbia University New York, NY

Department of Health Policy and Management, Mailman School of Public Health

Associate Professor (with tenure) 7/2016-present

Faculty Lead, Columbia MPH: Health Policy Analysis Certificate; Health Policy and Practice Certificate 8/2013-present

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[Around 100 students are in the Health Policy Analysis Certificates, and the Health Policy Analysis Certificate is the most popular concentration in the Mailman MPH, and has been in the 5 in enrollment since 2013]

Assistant Professor 8/2009-7/2016

Faculty Affiliate, Master of Bioethics Program 2014-present

Faculty Affiliate, Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Fellows 2011-2014

University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, California

Assistant Professor in Residence 07/2005-06/2009

Associate Director, Masters of Public Health Program 08/2008-06/2009

Visiting Assistant Professor 08/2003–07/2005

Harvard University Cambridge/ Boston, Massachusetts

Visiting Scholar, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European

Studies/Department of Government 09/2006-08/2007

Instructor, Office of Special Concentrations, Faculty of Arts and Sciences 01/2000-06/2000

Research Specialist, Harvard School of Public Health 09/1999-2/ 2000

Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee

Visiting Scholar, Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies 09/1998-08/1999

Honors

Tow Faculty Scholar Award, Tow Foundation 2018-2020 Funded fellowship. In recognition of outstanding and innovative research and thought leadership by mid-career faculty.

Gold Award 2015 Association of American Society of Healthcare Publication Editors (with K. Isett and D. Cloud)

Public Voices Fellowship 2015-2016 The Op-Ed Project, Columbia University Cohort

Leonard S. Robins Best Paper Award 2014 American Political Science Association, Section on Health Politics and Policy

Finalist, 2009 Early Career in Public Health Teaching Award 2009 Association of Schools of Public Health/Pfizer

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Finalist Chancellor’s Award for Postdoctoral Research 2003 University of California, Los Angeles

Fulbright Graduate Scholar 1992 New Zealand-United States Educational Foundation

Alan D. Robinson Memorial Prize and K.J. Scott Memorial Prize 1989, 1992 Victoria University Department of Politics

Editorial Positions and Boards

Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law

Book Review Editor 09/2017-present

Special Issue reviewer 2017

Editorial Board 2012-present

Journal of Aging and Social Policy 08/ 2016-present

Journal of Health Services Research and Policy 2015-present

Health Economics, Policy and Law 2011-present

(reappointed in 2014, and 2017)

World Medical and Health Policy 2009-present

Research Grants

Current

Principal Investigator

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Systems for Action (Grant Number 74942) (12/1/2017-06/30/19)

Developing a New Terminology for Funding Social Services

To study the feasibility of developing billing systems for reimbursing providers for social and health services in one system. ($100,000)

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Principal Investigator

Columbia University, Department of Health Policy and Management, Faculty Research Grant (7/1/2016-6/30/2019)

The Use and Effectiveness of Fee for Service Reimbursement in Cross-National Perspective

(with Michael Gusmano, Rutgers University; Lawrence D. Brown, Columbia University; Victor Rodwin, NYU)

We will research how prices for physician services are determined and evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of different payment methods. We will identify strategies countries use to balance cost, utilization and expenditure, with a view to recommending models that might potentially be suitable for use in the United States.

Co-investigator

Canadian Institutes of Health Research (12/01/2016 - 11/30/2020)

A comparative policy analysis of programs to support people with dementia and co-existing complex needs and their caregivers

(With Stephen Edward Bornstein, Heather Davidson, David Harvey, Jason Helgerson, Gregory Marchildon, Kimberlyn Marie Mcgrail, Mary Kate Meyer Mohlman, Kelli Obrien, Katya J Park, James Andrew Shaw, Beth Tanzman, Yuchi Young, Walter Patrick Wodchis, Martin Mckee, Lisa Levin, Rajan Sacha Bhatia, Geoffrey Michael Anderson - University of Toronto)

(CAD$104,167)

Completed Grants 2010-2014

Principal Investigator

National Institute of Healthcare Management (2/1/16-7/31/17)

Evaluation of Affordable Care Act Policies to Encourage Accurate Prices for Medicare Services

The project explores how policies enacted as part of the ACA have affected the process for updating Medicare physician fees and to estimate the impact on Medicare expenditure. ($44,000)

Principal Investigator

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research Program) (4/1/2010-9/30/2014)

The Politics of Relative Values: Physicians and Medicare Fees

To understand the role of physician interest groups in the design and implementation of Medicare physician payment policy since 1989, especially the American Medical Association’s Relative Value Update Committee (RUC). ($334,830)

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Faculty Core

National Institute of Mental Health (02/01/2012-01/31/2013)

Advisory core for HIV Center researchers on ethics and health care policy.

(PI Ehrhardt; Subcontract number P30 MH043520)

HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, Ethics and Policy Core Faculty.

Co-Principal Investigator /Principal Investigator

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation(1/1/2012-8/31/2012)

Mainstreaming Public Health in the Bloomberg Administration: A Model for reform?

(PI Isett: 8/1/2010-9/1/2011, PI for Columbia University Subcontract)

Changing public health policy is challenging, and yet in some cases large-scale policy changes are possible. This project analyzed why and how New York City successfully implemented public health reform.

Co-Investigator

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (2008-2010)

Evaluation of reforms to cover all children in the states of Illinois, Pennsylvania and Washington

(PI Escarce and Gresenz)

The evaluation used mixed methods to address three key policy dimensions related to the access reforms directed at children’s health insurance: affordability, coverage, and sustainability.

2009 and earlier

Principal Investigator

Ministry of Health, Bermuda (2008-9)

International Financing Models for Bermuda’s Future Care Program

(Subcontract with Kurron Shares of Bermuda/ Ministry of Health, Bermuda)

The project compared international models of health care finance and presented options for the design of a universal insurance coverage program for the over-65 population in Bermuda.

Principal Investigator

UCLA Center for the Study of Women (2008-2009)

Junior Faculty Grant, State responses to the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) Vaccine

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This study examined state policy responses and political determinants of policy adoption related to the HPV vaccine.

Principal Investigator

Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation (2007-2009)

Mandated Health Insurance Coverage for Breast, Cervical, Colon, and Prostate Cancer Screening

Principal Investigator

UCLA Academic Senate Council on Research Faculty Research Grants Program (2006-2007)

Specialty Medical Societies in Congress, 1972-2010

Investigator

University of California, Office of the President. (7/2003-6/2006)

California Health Benefits Review Program: Cost Impact Analysis

(PI Kominski)

Post-Doctoral Fellow (8/2001-7/2003)

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Training Program ()

National Research Service Award (PI Andersen)

Principal Investigator

Health Research Council of New Zealand (7/1996-2/2000)

Political Determinants of Health Care Reform

Post-Graduate Scholarship Grant 96-405

Three-year research grant for dissertation research, including coursework in political science and health policy through Harvard University’s PhD in Health Policy Program for one year.

Fellowships

Senior Scholar Travel Grant, 2000, American Political Science Association

Emerging Researcher Travel Grant, 1997, Health Research Council of New Zealand

Conference Travel Grant, 1997, Fulbright New Zealand

Faculty of Arts Travel Grant, 1997, University of Melbourne

Melbourne Research Scholarship, 1997-1999, University of Melbourne

Special Post-Graduate Research Studentship, 1996-1997, University of Melbourne

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Tuition Grant and Fellowship, 1992, Washington University

Publications

Books

Laugesen, Miriam. 2016. Fixing Medical Prices: How Physicians Are Paid. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. (Reviews in Health Affairs, Bulletin of the History of Medicine)

Laugesen, Miriam, and Robin Gauld. 2012. Democratic Governance and Health: Hospitals, Politics, and Health Policy in New Zealand. Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago University Press.

Edited Volumes

Salmond, G.G. Mooney, and Miriam Laugesen, eds. 1994. Special Issue on New Zealand Health Reforms, Health Policy, 29 (1–2):1–182.

Articles (*indicates student or mentee)

1. Laugesen, Miriam J. 2019. “How the American Medical Association's Rent-Seeking

Strategy Compensated for Its Loss of Members.” Journal of Health Politics Policy and

Law (2019) 44 (1): 67-85. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-

2. Laugesen, Miriam J. 2018. Regarding "Committee Representation and Medicare

Reimbursements: An Examination of the Resource-Based Relative Value Scale” Health

Services Research 53(6): 4123-4131 DOI: 10.1111/1475-6773.13084

3. Spivack, Steven B., Miriam J. Laugesen, Jonathan Oberlander. 2018. “No Permanent

Fix: MACRA, MIPS, and the Politics of Physician Payment Reform.” Journal of Health

Politics Policy and Law 43 (6): 1025-1040. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-

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4. Laugesen, Miriam J. 2018. “Do Other Countries Have a Better Mix of Generalists and

Specialists?” Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law 43 (5): 853–872.

doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-6951199

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5. Gross, Tal and Miriam J. Laugesen. 2018. “The Price of Health Care: Why Is the

United States an Outlier?” Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law October 43 (5): 771–

791. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-6951127

6. Poghosyan, L., Norful, A.A. and Laugesen, M.J., 2018. “Removing restrictions on nurse

practitioners' scope of practice in New York State: Physicians' and nurse practitioners'

perspectives.” Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, 30(6), pp.354-360.

7. Oberlander, Jonathan, and Miriam J. Laugesen. 2015. “Leap of Faith — Medicare’s New

Physician Payment System.” New England Journal of Medicine 373 (13):1185–87. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMp1509154.

8. Laugesen, Miriam J. 2015. “Commentary -- Payment Policy Disruption and Policy Drift.” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 40 (4):839–46. https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-3150088.

9. Laugesen, Miriam J. 2015. “Human Resources in Health Care Systems: Reflecting on ‘Cross-National Comparisons of Human Resources for Health - What Can We Learn?’” Health Economics, Policy, and Law 10 (4):375–79. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1744133115000080.

10. Isett, Kimberley Roussin, Miriam J. Laugesen, and David H. Cloud. 2015. “Learning From New York City: A Case Study of Public Health Policy Practice in the Bloomberg Administration.” Journal of Public Health Management and Practice 21 (4):313–22. https://doi.org/10.1097/PHH.0000000000000225.

11. Laugesen, Miriam J., Ritesh Mistry, Kelley A. Carameli, Kurt M. Ribisl, Jack Needleman, and Roshan Bastani. 2014. “Early Policy Responses to the Human Papillomavirus Vaccine in the United States, 2006–2010.” Journal of Adolescent Health 55 (5):659–64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2014.04.015.

12. Laugesen, Miriam J. 2014. “The Resource-Based Relative Value Scale and Physician Reimbursement Policy.” Chest 146 (5):1413–19. https://doi.org/10.1378/chest.13-2367.

13. Laugesen, Miriam J., and George France. 2014. “Integration: The Firm and the Health Care Sector.” Health Economics, Policy and Law 9 (03):295–312. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1744133114000139.

14. Ko, Michelle, Jack Needleman, Kathryn Pitkin Derose, Miriam J. Laugesen, and Ninez A. Ponce. 2014. “Residential Segregation and the Survival of U.S. Urban Public Hospitals.” Medical Care Research and Review 71 (3):243–60. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077558713515079.

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15. Gresenz, Carole Roan, Sarah E. Edgington, Miriam J. Laugesen, and José J. Escarce. 2013. “Income Eligibility Thresholds, Premium Contributions, and Children’s Coverage Outcomes: A Study of CHIP Expansions.” Health Services Research 48 (2pt2):884–904. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6773.12039.

16. Klein, David B., Miriam J. Laugesen, and Nan Liu. 2013. “The Patient-Centered Medical Home: A Future Standard for American Health Care?” Public Administration Review 73 (s1):S82–92. https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.12082.

17. Laugesen, Miriam J., and Kimberly R. Isett. 2013. “Evidence Use in New York City Public Health Policymaking,” Frontiers in Public Health Services and Systems, 2 (7). https://doi.org/10.13023/FPHSSR.0207.02.

18. Sabik, Lindsay M., and Miriam J. Laugesen. 2012. “The Impact of Maternity Length-of-Stay Mandates on the Labor Market and Insurance Coverage.” INQUIRY: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing 49 (1):37–51. https://doi.org/10.5034/inquiryjrnl_49.01.05.

19. Rockers, Peter C., Margaret E. Kruk, and Miriam J. Laugesen. 2012. “Perceptions of the Health System and Public Trust in Government in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Evidence from the World Health Surveys.” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 37 (3):405–37. https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-1573076.

20. Gresenz, Carole Roan, Sarah E. Edgington, Miriam Laugesen, and José J. Escarce. 2012. “Take-Up of Public Insurance and Crowd-Out of Private Insurance under Recent CHIP Expansions to Higher Income Children.” Health Services Research 47 (5):1999–2011. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-6773.2012.01408.x.

21. Bustamante, Arturo Vargas, Miriam Laugesen, Mabel Caban, and Pauline Rosenau. 2012. “United States-Mexico Cross-Border Health Insurance Initiatives: Salud Migrante and Medicare in Mexico.” Revista Panamericana de Salud Publica = Pan American Journal of Public Health 31 (1):74–80.

22. Laugesen, M. J., R. Wada, and E. M. Chen. 2012. “In Setting Doctors’ Medicare Fees, CMS Almost Always Accepts The Relative Value Update Panel’s Advice On Work Values.” Health Affairs 31 (5):965–72. https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2011.0557.

23. Gresenz, Carole Roan, Miriam J. Laugesen, Ambeshie Yesus, and José J. Escarce. 2011. “Relative Affordability of Health Insurance Premiums under CHIP Expansion Programs and the ACA.” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 36 (5):859–77. https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-1407658.

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24. Laugesen, M. J., and S. A. Glied. 2011. “Higher Fees Paid To US Physicians Drive Higher Spending For Physician Services Compared To Other Countries.” Health Affairs 30 (9):1647–56. https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2010.0204.

25. Laugesen, M. J. 2011. “Civilized Medicine: Physicians and Health Care Reform.” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 36 (3):507–12. https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-1271171.

26. Rabinowitz, Aaron, and Miriam Laugesen. 2010. “Niche Players in Health Policy: Medical Specialty Societies in Congress 1969–2002.” Social Science & Medicine 71 (7):1341–48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.06.035.

27. Rodriguez, Hector P., Miriam J. Laugesen, and Carolyn A. Watts. 2010. “A Randomized Experiment of Issue Framing and Voter Support of Tax Increases for Health Insurance Expansion.” Health Policy 98 (2–3):245–55. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2010.06.020.

28. Laugesen, Miriam J., and Arturo Vargas-Bustamante. 2010. “A Patient Mobility Framework That Travels: European and United States–Mexican Comparisons.” Health Policy 97 (2–3):225–31. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2010.05.006.

29. Laugesen, Miriam J. 2009. “Siren Song: Physicians, Congress, and Medicare Fees.” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 34 (2):157–79. https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-2008-043.

30. Kominski, Gerald F., Jay C. Ripps, Miriam J. Laugesen, Robert G. Cosway, and Nadereh Pourat. 2006. “The California Cost and Coverage Model: Analyses of the Financial Impacts of Benefit Mandates for the California Legislature.” Health Services Research 41 (3 Pt 2):1027–44. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-6773.2006.00518.x.

31. Laugesen, Miriam J., Rebecca R. Paul, Harold S. Luft, Wade Aubry, and Theodore G. Ganiats. 2006. “A Comparative Analysis of Mandated Benefit Laws, 1949-2002.” Health Services Research 41 (3 Pt 2):1081–1103. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-6773.2006.00521.x.

32. Laugesen, Miriam. 2005. “Why Some Market Reforms Lack Legitimacy in Health Care.” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 30 (6):1065–1100. https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-30-6-1065.

33. Buntin, Melinda J. Beeuwkes, Jose J. Escarcé, Dana Goldman, Hongjun Kan, Miriam J. Laugesen, and Paul Shekelle. 2004. “Increased Medicare Expenditures for Physicians’ Services: What Are the Causes?” Inquiry: A Journal of Medical Care Organization, Provision and Financing 41 (1):83–94. https://doi.org/10.5034/inquiryjrnl_41.1.83.

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34. Laugesen, Miriam J., and Thomas Rice. 2003. “Is the Doctor in? The Evolving Role of Organized Medicine in Health Policy.” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 28 (2–3):289–316.

35. Norris, P., P. Calcott, and M. Laugesen. 1998. The Prescribing of New Anti-Depressants in New Zealand. New Zealand Family Physician (Journal of the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners) 25 (2): 45-49.

36. Miller, E.A., M. Laugesen, D. S. Lee, and S. Mick. 1998. Emigration of New Zealand and Australian Physicians to the United States: Symptoms of the International Equity Problem. Health Policy 43: 253-270.

37. Salmond, G., M. Laugesen, and K. Nelson. 1995. The New Zealand health reforms after two years. Health Manager (Journal of the New Zealand Institute of Health Management and the Australian College of Health Service Executives) (3): 22-33.

38. Salmond, G., G. Mooney, and M. Laugesen. 1994. Introduction to health care reform in New Zealand. Health Policy 29: 1-3.

39. Laugesen, M. and G. Salmond. 1994. New Zealand Healthcare: A Background. Health Policy 29: 11-23.

Book Chapters

40. Laugesen, M.J 2001. The Institutional Context. In Health and Public Policy in New Zealand. Peter Davis and Toni Ashton (eds.), Auckland: Oxford University Press. 127-143.

41. Laugesen, M.J. and T. Rice. 2002. Appendix: Overview of the Health Services Systems in Ten Developed Countries. In: The Economics of Health Reconsidered (Second Edition) by Thomas Rice. Chicago: Health Administration Press, p. 275-305 [also translated into Greek and published in 2006 in Greece].

42. Laugesen, M.J. and T. Rice. 2009. Overview of the Health Services Systems in Ten Developed Countries. In: The Economics of Health Reconsidered (Third Edition) by Thomas Rice and Lynn Unruh. Chicago: Health Administration Press.

Reviews and Letters

43. Laugesen, M.J 1996. Review of Robert Blank's Comparative Health Policy. Political Science 48 (1): 112-113.

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44. Laugesen M.J. 2011 High physician fees: the author replies. Health Affairs 30 (12): 2457.

45. Laugesen M. J. 2013. Review of Conflicts of Interest and the Future of Medicine, by Marc A. Rodwin Perspectives on Politics 11 (4): 1224-1226.

46. Laugesen M. J. 2013. Review of Politics, health and health care: selected essays, by T. Marmor and R. Klein Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis 15 (2): 198-199.

47. Laugesen M. J. 2015. The Resource-Based Relative Value Scale and Physician Reimbursement Policy: the author replies. CHEST. (April): 156-157.

Research Translation and Policy Briefs

48. “A Response To Berenson And Ginsburg: Good Governance Is Essential For Payment Transformation, " Health Affairs Blog, May 2, 2019.DOI: 10.1377/hblog20190501.419896

49. Gresenz, C.R., S.E. Edgington, M. Laugesen, J.J. Escarce. 2010. CHIP Expansions to Higher-Income Children in Three States: Profiles of Eligibility and Insurance Coverage. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Policy Brief.

50. Laugesen, M.J. 2012. How Much Should Individuals Entering Health Professions Know About Health Policy? Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Human Capital Blog, September.

51. Laugesen, M.J. 2014. Valuing Physician Work in Medicare: Time for a Change. Expert Voices Essay. October 7. Washington DC: National Institute of Health Care Management.

Legislative and Policy Analysis

52. Gresenz, C., S. Edgington, M.J. Laugesen, and J.J. Escarce. 2011. Take-Up of Public Insurance and Crowd-out of Private Insurance Under Recent CHIP Expansions to Higher Income Children. NBER Working Paper #17658.

53. Kominski, G. F., J. C. Ripps, M. J. Laugesen, R. G. Cosway, and N. Pourat. 2004. The California Cost and Coverage Model. An Analytic Tool for Examining the Financial Impacts of Benefit Mandates. Oakland: University of California Office of the President. [Impact on health insurance and spending]

54. California Health Benefits Review Program. 2004. Analysis of Assembly Bill 438 (Osteoporosis Screening). Oakland: University of California Office of the President. [Lead author for economic analysis of likely health insurance and spending impacts]

55. California Health Benefits Review Program. 2004. Analysis of Senate Bill 897 (Maternity Services) Oakland: University of California Office of the President. [Lead author for economic analysis of likely health insurance and spending impacts]

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56. California Health Benefits Review Program 2004. Analysis of Senate Bill 1157 (Elimination of Intoxication Exclusion). Oakland: University of California Office of the President. [Lead author for economic analysis of likely health insurance and spending impacts]

57. California Health Benefits Review Program. 2004. Analysis of Assembly Bill 547 (Ovarian Cancer Screening). Oakland: University of California Office of the President. [Lead author for economic analysis of likely health insurance and spending impacts]

58. California Health Benefits Review Program. 2004. Analysis of Senate Bill 1555 (Maternity Services). Oakland: University of California Office of the President. [Lead author for economic analysis of likely health insurance and spending impacts]

59. California Health Benefits Review Program. 2005. Analysis of AB 8: Mastectomies and Lymph Node Dissections. Oakland: University of California Office of the President. [Lead author for economic analysis of likely health insurance and spending impacts]

60. California Health Benefits Review Program. 2005. Analysis of AB 213: Lymphedema Services. Oakland: University of California Office of the President. [Lead author for economic analysis of likely health insurance and spending impacts]

61. California Health Benefits Review Program. 2005. Analysis of Senate Bill 572: Mental Health Parity. Oakland: University of California Office of the President. [Lead author for economic analysis of likely health insurance and spending impacts]

62. California Health Benefits Review Program. 2005. Analysis of Senate Bill 573: Elimination of Intoxication Exclusion. Oakland: University of California Office of the President. [Lead author for economic analysis of likely health insurance and spending impacts]

63. California Health Benefits Review Program. 2006. Analysis of SB1245: Cervical Cancer Screening. Oakland: University of California Office of the President. [Economic impact team]

64. Beeuwkes-Buntin, M., M. J. Laugesen, J. Escarce, D. Goldman, H. Kan, P. Shekelle. 2002. Determinants of Increases in Medicare Expenditure for Physicians' Services. RAND Report DRU-3142-AHRQ.

65. Crampton, P. and M. J. Laugesen. 1995. The Use of Indexes of Need in Resource Allocation Formulas for Primary Health Care. Discussion Paper 3, Health Services Research Center, Victoria University of Wellington.

Current Projects/ Under Review

1. Misvalued Codes. (Laugesen and Kim)

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Affiliations and Service

Memberships

American Political Science Association

AcademyHealth

Union of Concerned Scientists

The Authors Guild

Professional Societies

President (Elect) 2018-19

APSA Conference Section Chair 2018-19

AcademyHealth Education Council member 2018-

Health Politics Section, American Political Science Association

Treasurer, (Elected) 2011–2013

Executive Committee Member, AcademyHealth

State Health Interest Group 2009–2012

Service on Advisory Panels

Member, Value Based Pricing Advisory Committee, Anthem 2018-

Member, Technical Expert Panel, RAND Corporation, Development of a Model for the Validation of Work Relative Value Units for the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule.

2013-2014

Member, Advisory Committee, Payment Reform Project, (Joint AcademyHealth /Robert Wood Johnson Foundation on strategies to advance health care payment reform)

2012–2013

Ad-hoc Review (Government and funders)

Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (reports to Congress) 2017, 2018

Health Research Board, Ireland; National Science Foundation 2010

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National Institute for Health Research, HSR Programme, UK 2010

Service to Conference and Prize Committees

Program Chair, Health Politics and Policy Section, Annual meeting of the American

Political Science Association 2018-19

Reviewer Health Workforce Section Academy Health Annual Meeting 2018

Chair Leonard S. Robins Best Paper Award Committee, Health Politics Section of the

American Political Science Association 2016-17

Committee Member, Leonard S. Robins Best Paper Award Committee, Health Politics

Section of the American Political Science Association 2015-16

Reviewer Academy Health Annual Meeting, Medicare panel 2012

Reviewer, State Health Interest Group Annual Meeting Academy Health National

Health Policy Conference 2010- 2011

Abstract Reviewer Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2010

Program Chair, Aging and Politics Group, American Political Science Association

Annual Meeting 2005

Scholarly Peer Review

Journals: Administrative Sciences, American Journal of Managed Care, Australian Health Review; BMC Health Services Research, British Medical Journal, Forum for Health Economics and Policy, Global Health Governance, Global Public Health, The Hastings Center Report, Health Affairs, Healthcare: The Journal of Delivery Science and Innovation, Health Services Research, Health Policy, International Journal of Health Policy and Management, Journal of Adolescent Health, Journal of General and Internal Medicine, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Journal of Political Ideologies, JAMA Pediatrics, Journal of Public Policy, Medicine, Health Care, and Philosophy, Medical Care Research and Review, New England Journal of Medicine, Oman Medical Journal, Policy, Politics and Nursing Practice, Policy and Society, Policy Studies Journal, Political Research Quarterly, Public Administration (London), Public Administration Review, Publius: A Journal of Federalism, Review of International Political Economy, Social Science and Medicine, Tropical Medicine & International Health.

Presses: Sage Press, 2012; Columbia University Press, 2011; Oxford University Press 2010; Cambridge University Press 2009, 2019.

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Service to the University

Columbia University

Schoolwide Chair of Department Search Committee 2018

Department Faculty Search Committee (3 positions) 2017-18

HPM Space and Technology Committee 2017-

Ad-Hoc Committee, MPH Certificates 2016-17

Reviewer for the Departmental Admissions Committee 2013-present

Member, Departmental Search Committee 2011

Member, School of Public Health Core Curriculum Reform Committee 2010-2011

Member, Dean’s Taskforce on Valuing Teaching and Teaching Quality 2010

University of California, Los Angeles 2004-2009

Member, Ad-Hoc School-wide Committee for Minor in Public Health 2008-2009

Member, Student Affairs PhD/DrPH 2008-2009

Admissions and Financial Aid Subcommittee 2005-

Member, School of Public Health Computing Committee 2008-9

Member, Outreach and Marketing Committee 2006-2009

Member, Student Affairs Masters in Public Health/ Executive MPH Admissions and Financial Aid Subcommittee 2007-9

Member, School of Public Health Awards Committee 2006

Candidate interviewer/reviewer, Graduate Division, Fulbright USA 2004, 2007

Member, Chancellor’s Initiative on Society and Genetics Planning Group 2004-2005

Teaching

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Columbia University 2009-present

Health Policy and Political Analysis (required course)

Interest Group Politics

Consulting Project in Health Policy Analysis

School-wide module on US Health Systems (team taught)

Other teaching: Faculty Advisor, AcademyHealth Columbia University Student Chapter, 2014-present; CUMC Summer Medical and Dental Education Program: Guest Lecture “Public Policy and Policy Analysis” (June 2013, 2010); Independent Study: Lifetime caps laws, regulations and costs under health care reform, Spring 2011; Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons: General and Internal Medicine residents’ segment on US health policy, November 2011.

University of California Los Angeles 2006-2008

American Political Institutions and Health Policy

Health Services Organization

Ethical and Legal Issues in Public Health (co-taught)

Guest Lectures: Introduction to Health Services (2006, 2008, 2009); Evaluation Methods in Health Services (2008)

Harvard College 2000

Office of Special Undergraduate Concentrations: “Comparative Health Policy”—a new

course for undergraduate students with a concentration in health policy

Victoria University of Wellington 1990-1996

Teaching Assistant: Introduction to Public Policy; Introduction to Public Administration; Public Management; Public Power and Administrative Behavior; Introduction to Social Policy; Planning Social Services.

Ph.D. Examination, Advisory, and Defense Committees

Examiner, Grant Porter, Doctoral Dissertation Examination Committee, Department of Political Science, Columbia University, December 2013.

Committee Member, Aaron Rabinowitz, Doctoral Program in Health Policy, Harvard University. Ph.D. Committee. Completed 2012.

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Committee Member, Michelle Ko, Health Policy and Management, UCLA School of Public Health Ph.D. Committee. Completed 2012 (ex-officio after leaving UCLA, due to UCLA rules regarding nonresident members)

Committee Member, 2009-2013, Barbara Wentworth, Health Policy and Management, UCLA School of Public Health UCLA Ph.D. Committee (resigned, after leaving UCLA, due to UCLA rules regarding nonresident members)

Committee Member, Kelley Carameli, Community Health Sciences, UCLA School of Public Health Dr.PH Committee. Completed 2010.

Student and Post-Doctoral Advising and Mentoring

Department of Health Policy and Management: advising and mentoring of departmental advisees (2009) and certificate students (2013-)

Department of Health Policy and Management: supervision of research practica 2009-present approximately 25 students

Faculty mentor for the AcademyHealth/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Public Health Systems Research Scholarship Program at the Annual Research Meeting of AcademyHealth, 2013

Arielle Langer, M.D. (2011), Research rotation from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University.

Simon Nantamu (2010-11), Columbia University’s Global Health Initiative Program. Visiting doctoral student from Makerere University, Uganda.

Eric Chen, M.D. (2009), Visiting research block rotation in the Internal Medicine Residency Program from the School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine.

Roy Wada, Ph.D. (2008-9), Postdoctoral Fellow, RAND-UCLA Program in Health Services Research

Nuran Erden, (2005), Visiting Scholar from the Ministry of Health, Ankara, Turkey

Jared Murdock, M.D. (2005), Visiting research rotation, Tufts University School of Medicine, Masters of Public Health Practicum Project

Presentations

Panelist and commentator, Brown University Watson Institute/Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law Opioids Conference, February 2019.

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American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Paper on Japanese Healthcare. September 2018.

Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, March, 2018 (Invited).

New Organizational Strategies to Overcome Collective Action Issues: The American Medical Association. Tufts University/ Journal of Health Policy, Politics and Law conference. December 2017.

Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, October 5, 2017 (Invited)

Panelist on “Author meets Critics: Unhealthy Politics,” American Political Science Association Meeting, September 2017.

Policy Roundtable: Bringing Value to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule: 25 Years of the Resource-Based Relative Value Scale “Fixing Reimbursements: How we Pay Physicians.” Academy Health Annual Research Meeting, June 2017.

Conventional Wisdom: Other Countries have a Better Mix of Primary Care Practitioners and Specialists . Conference Challenging the Conventional Wisdom. Columbia University June 2017 (Invited)

Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University, “Fixing Reimbursements: How we Pay Physicians.” April 26, 2017 (Invited)

Grand Rounds, New York Medical College, May 2016 (Invited)

Austin W. Marxe School of Public and International Affairs, Baruch College, October 2016 (Invited)

Hospital Governance: Lessons from New Zealand. Meeting of the Ontario Health Coalition, Toronto, November 2015 (Invited)

Is RUC Evidence-Based? Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, November, 2015

Exploring the Domain of “Health Policy Research.” Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy Research Conference “The Future of Health Policy Research: Funding and Publishing Opportunities,” October 16, 2015 (Invited)

The Effectiveness of the Review of Misvalued Codes. AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, June 2015.

The ACA as “Change Agent”: Emerging Organizational Delivery Models and Payment Systems. The Reform Landscape of Health Care Delivery Conference, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, May 2016 (Invited)

Physician Review of Medicare Service Payments as a Tool for Changing Reimbursement Policy

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Medicare panel, AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, June 2016

Presentation on Value-Based Purchasing and Physician Reimbursement, AcademyHealth National Health Policy Conference, February 2014 (Invited)

Keynote address, Access to Quality Healthcare Taskforce Meeting, National Multiple Sclerosis Society, 2014 (Invited)

2008-2013

Fixing Medical Prices: Organized Medicine and Physician Payment Policy. David E. Rogers Health Policy Colloquium, Weill Cornell Medical College 2013 (Invited)

Fixing Medical Prices: Organized Medicine and Physician Payment Policy, State University at Stonybrook Medical Center 2013 (Invited)

The Impact of the ACA on Physicians, Professional Specialization, and Reimbursement, Thematic Session at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting August 2013 (Invited)

Complexity and Capture, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 2013.

Bending the Cost Curve: Fixing Medical Prices, University of Pennsylvania Wharton Alumni Association, World Economic Forum 2013 (Invited)

Symposium on Healthcare Financing: Problems, Comparisons, & the Future, Center for Medicine and Law, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine/University of Baltimore School of Law 2012 (Invited)

HealthCare 2012: Exploring the Challenges and Potential Solutions, College of Physicians and Surgeons’ Alumni Reunion Weekend 2012 (Invited)

Symposium on Writing the Master Narrative for US Health Policy Brooklyn Law School 2012 (Invited)

Relatively Political: Physicians and Medicare Fees, Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, 2011.

Higher Physician Fees Drives Higher Spending. Symposium on health care costs. Project Hope and Health Affairs 2011 (Invited)

Relatively Political: Physicians and Medicare Fees. Gerontology Institute Speaker Series, University of Massachusetts, Boston 2011 (Invited)

Relatively Political: Physicians and Medicare Fees, Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey 2011 (Invited)

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Enabling Social Justice through Health Policy and Reform, Columbia University Chapter of Physicians for Human Rights 2011 (Invited)

Panelist, Immigration and Health-care at The Columbia Political Union and Columbia American Medical Students’ Association, 2010

Changing Borders: The Complexities of Cross Border Healthcare in the United States and European Union, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, 2009

The Politics of Human Papilloma Virus Vaccine, Center for the Study of Women Faculty Symposium, (Invited) 2009

Voice and Choice in Healthcare: exiting healthcare in the United States and the European Union (with A. Vargas-Bustamante) European Consortium on Political Research Workshop on Voice and Choice in Politics, April, Lisbon, Portugal 2009

Speaker, Evaluation of Three States Reforms to Expand Children’s Health Insurance Coverage, State Health Access Reform Evaluation Grantee Meeting 2009

State Policy Responses to the HPV Vaccine Since 2006, UCLA Jonsson Cancer Center Division of Cancer Prevention and Control Research 2008

Medicare, Physicians, Fees, and Congress, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting 2008

1997-2007

Breaking the Code: Are Primary Care Services Disadvantaged by the Resource-Based Relative Value System? Department of General and Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA 2008

Public Support for European Integration of Health Policy. Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University 2007

Business and Welfare: Australasian Perspectives, Policy History Journal Conference 2006

After the Market: why it lacked public legitimacy in health care, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting 2004

Voice Not Choice, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting 2003

Governance of Health Care in Comparative Perspective, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting 2003

Physicians and Medicare Policy in the 1990s, Academy Health/ Association for Health Services Research and Health Policy Annual Meeting (Invited) 2002

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Mastering Their Own Domain: Physicians. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law Conference: Who Shall Lead? (With T. H. Rice) (Invited) 2002

Public Preferences for Health Care Spending and Government Intervention: A Comparative Approach (with S.A. Banducci) Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting 2001

Moderating Reform: Constraints on reform implementation in New Zealand in the 1990s, 7th International Conference on System Science in Health Care, Budapest, Hungary 2000

Support for Health Care in the Welfare State: Australia, Britain, Canada, New Zealand and the United States (with S.A. Banducci), Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting 2000

Bounded Opportunities: The Limits of ‘Ideal’ Institutions in New Zealand Health Care Reform, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting 1999

Institutional Change and Health Care Reform, Northeastern Political Science Association Annual Meeting 1997

Emigration of New Zealand and Australian Physicians to the United States, (with E.A. Miller) Western Social Sciences Association Annual Meeting 1997

Other Conference Participation

Discussant, JHPPL conference Jan. 2019, Watson Institute, Brown University.

Discussant, Annual Research Meeting of Academy Health, 2018

Chair, Rationing in Health Conference, London School of Economics, London, United Kingdom 2011

Discussant, Panel on Health and Social Values, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting 2011

Discussant, Panel on Health and Public Opinion, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting 2010

Discussant/Commentator, Panel on Health and Aging, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting 2009

Poster: Updating Medicare Payments, Annual Research Meeting of Academy Health 2009

Chair and Discussant/Commentator, Panel on Comparative Public Policy Perspectives, Midwestern Political Science Association Annual Meeting 2006

Chair and Discussant/Commentator, Midwestern Political Science Association Annual Meeting 2005

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Chair and Discussant/Commentator, Western Political Science Association 2005

Discussant/Commentator, Panel on State Health Policy-Making. American Political Science Association Annual Meeting 2005

Chair, Panel on Health and Aging, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting 2005

Poster: Assessing the Financial Impact of State Health Benefit Mandates in California, Annual Research Meeting of Academy Health 2005

Media Coverage of Research

All Headline News, Aetna News, American Academy of Family Medicine News, American Medical News, Caring for the Ages, Baltimore Sun, Becker's Orthopedic, Becker’s Hospital Review, Bloomberg, Consumers’ Union, Daily.com, Emergency Medicine Expert, Forbes, The Guardian (United Kingdom), GI & Hepatology News, Gizmodo, GPB News (NPR), Healthcare Finance News, Healthpoint Capital, Hematology Times, Humphrey Public Affairs Review, International Business Times, Managed Care News, MedCity News, Medical Daily, Medical News Today, Medicare Medics, Med Executive Post, MedPage Today, MSNBC Today Health, Medscape Medical News, Milwaukee Daily Sentinel, Mises Institute, MLive.com, Modern Healthcare, Modern Medicine, National Post (Canada), National Underwriter, NBC News.com, Neue Zürcher Zeitung (Switzerland), New York Times, News Tribune, New Zealand Doctor (New Zealand), Los Angeles Times, Oncology Times, Oncology Report, Orlando Business Journal, Otago Daily Times (New Zealand), Politico, Politico Magazine, Public Citizen, Rocket News (Canada), Salon, San Francisco Chronicle, Science Daily, Scientific American, Spine & Pain Management Review, Shots (NPR Health News), Star Tribune, The Listener (New Zealand), The Times of India, USA Today, WABE (NPR), Wall Street Journal, Washington Post.

Blogs and Online Platforms

Altarum Health Policy Blog, Center for American Progress Think Progress and “American Thinker,” Atlantic Wire (The Atlantic Magazine), Dr Wes, Discoveries in Health Policy, Epi.org, Health Affairs Blog, Healthcare Blog, Healthcare Strategy, Huffington Post, Incidental Economist, Wonkblog, Kaiser Health News, KevinMD Blog, ManagingHealth Care Costs Blog, Tyler Cowen in MarginalRevolution, Matt Yglesias, National Public Radio Blog: “Marketplace,” New Economics Foundation Blog, New York Times Economix Blog, NZEdge.com (The Global Life of New Zealanders), Pop Tort Blog, Science Based Medicine, SuperCoder Blog, Vice, Tonic, Wall Street Journal Blog, Wonkblog.

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Radio Interviews

The Larry Mantel Show (KPCC Los Angeles) (live)

Brian Lehrer Show, December 2016 (WNYC, New York) (live in-studio)

Leonard Lopate Show, January 2017 (WYNC, New York, live in-studio)

Television and Video Interviews

Reuters TV 2018

Al Jazeera America TV (live, in-studio) 2012

City Health Beat (in-studio, NY1) 1/21/2017

NY1 TV News (on camera interviews) 2015-16

AOL Café Mom (video interview)

Podcasts

ReThink Health, 2015.

National Center for Children in Poverty Webinar on Andrea Campbell’s book Trapped in America's Safety Net: One Family's Struggle, July 2016

References

Available on request.