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Barbara Gage

Expertise

Community-Based Research
Disability and Long-Term Care
Health Care Quality and Access
Long-Term Care Programs and Policy

Biography

Barbara Gage, PhD, is the deputy director of aging, disability, and long-term care studies at RTI and leads RTI's post-acute research efforts. Most of her research for Congress and the federal government has focused on Medicare payment policies and beneficiaries' use of post-acute care, including rehabilitation, psychiatric, and long-term care hospitals; home health agencies; and skilled nursing facilities. Dr. Gage specializes in studying episodes of care, beginning with acute hospital discharge and including all subsequent services. She has directed numerous studies analyzing the impact of the various Medicare payment policy changes, including studies of the relative use of PAC (pre- and post-BBA), case-mix analysis of long-term care hospital patients, relative use of inpatient and ambulatory rehabilitation services, bundled post-acute payment demonstrations, and the development of items to monitor the impact of the Medicare payment systems on access and quality of care. She has also studied community-based systems for elderly/disabled populations.

Education

PhD, Health Policy and Administration, Pennsylvania State University; MPA, Public Administration, University of Maine at Orono; BA, Medical Sociology, Boston University.

Selected Publications

Drozd, E.M., Cromwell, J., Gage, B., Maier, J., Greenwald, L.M., & Goldman, H.H. (2006 Apr). Patient casemix classification for medicare psychiatric prospective payment. American Journal of Psychiatry, 163 (4):724-732.

Stineman, M.G., Kallen, M.A., Thompson, C., & Gage, B. (Sept. 2005). Challenges in paying for effective stays. Medical Care, 43 (9):841-843.

Cromwell, J., Drozd, E.M., Gage, B., Maier, J., Lux, L.J., & Goldman, H.H. (March 2005). Variation in patient routine costliness in U.S. psychiatric facilities. The Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics, 8 (1):15-28.

Cromwell, J., Maier, J., Gage, B., Drozd, E., Osber, D., Richter, E., Greenwald, L., & Goldman, H. (2004). Characteristics of high staff intensive Medicare psychiatric inpatients. Health Care Financing Review, 26 (1):103-117.

Cotterill, P.G., & Gage, B. (Winter 2002). Overview: medicare post-acute care since the balanced budget act of 1997. Health Care Financing Review, 24 (2):1-6.

Gage, B. (1999). Impact of the BBA on post-acute utilization. Health Care Financing Review, 20 (4):103-126.

Gage, B., Moon, M., & Chi, S. (1999). State-level variation in medicare spending. Health Care Financing Review, 21 (2):85-98.

Gage, B., Stevenson, D., Liu, K., & Aragon, C. (Fall 1998). Medicare home health: An update. Public Policy and Aging Report, 9 (3):12-15.

Gage, B. (Summer 1998). The History and Growth of Medicare Managed Care. Generations, XXII (2).

Moon, M., Gage, B., & Evans, A. (Sept. 1997). An examination of key Medicare provisions in the Balanced Budget Act of 1997. The Commonwealth Fund.

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