Health Care Financing and Payment

Biography
Jerry Cromwell, PhD, appointed as an RTI Senior Fellow in April 2002, has developed and refined many significant health care payment methodologies over the past 30 years. He is an expert in health care financing policy; has led more than 75 projects resulting in major revisions in Medicare and Medicaid policies; developed a standard method for analyzing large and complex health care databases; and produced multiple books, chapters, and articles. He is the recipient of a Woodrow Wilson Scholarship and a Harvard Economic Scholarship. Read More…

Biography
Leslie Greenwald, Ph.D., is a principal scientist at RTI International with more than 15 years of experience conducting health services research. Dr. Greenwald serves as a project director and task leader for a range of projects related to Medicare payment, service delivery, cost and utilization analysis. She has focused her research efforts on Medicare managed care, Medicare payment systems, prescription drugs, risk adjustment, and beneficiary information. She also has extensive experience directing health care research programs. Dr. Greenwald joined RTI in 1991 after 11 years at the Health Care Financing Administration (now the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services). Read More…

Biography
Gregory C. Pope is director of RTI's health care financing and payment program. Mr. Pope has over 20 years of experience in health economics and health policy research. His specialties include management of large-scale projects; Medicare policy analysis; risk adjustment; provider payment design and incentives; program evaluation; directing the construction and analysis of large, complex claims and survey databases; statistical and quantitative analysis; and quality-of-care indicators. He has led the development and refinement of Medicare's Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' Hierarchical Condition Category and frailty risk adjustment models for managed care organization capitation payment. He is currently directing the evaluation of Medicare's Preferred Provider Organization and Physician Group Practice demonstrations and is co-developer of the Geographic Practice Cost Index used in Medicare physician payment. Mr. Pope has published more than 35 articles in the leading health economics and health policy journals and has made numerous presentations at major health services research professional conferences. Read More…