Jerry Cromwell

Expertise

Health Care Financing and Reimbursement
Health Care Efficiency and Equity
Federal-State Medicaid Cost Sharing
Medicare Demonstration Design and Evaluation

Biography

Jerry Cromwell, PhD, Senior Fellow in health economics, appointed April 2002, has over 30 years of experience conducting federally funded technical and evaluation projects. Major fields include Medicare hospital and physician payment systems and productivity gains, federal-state Medicaid public finance, physician participation in publicly funded health programs, reimbursement of anesthesia services, and disparities in access to complex health technologies. His technical expertise includes actuarial estimation of hospital inpatient and outpatient payment rates, quasi-experimental design of payment reform demonstrations, quantification of breadth and depth of state Medicaid insurance coverage and physician work effort, and econometric analysis of business cycle effects on Medicaid eligibility. He has sat on AHCPR, VA, and OTA health care study sections and testified before Congress on Medicare and Medicaid payment reforms. He is the founder and past president of Health Economics Research, which was acquired by RTI in 2002.

Education

PhD, Economics, Harvard University; BA, Economics, University of Southern California.

Selected Publications

Cromwell, J., Adamache, W., & Drozd, E.M. (Sept 2006). BBA impacts on hospital residents, finances, and medicare subsidies. Health Care Financing Review, 28 (1):117-129.

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.

Cromwell, J., Hoover, S., McCall, N., & Braun, P. (2006 Apr). Validating CPT typical times for Medicare office evaluation and management (E/M) services. Medical Care Research and Review, 63 (2):236-255.

Greenwald, L., Cromwell, J., Adamache, W., Bernard, S., Drozd, E., Root, E., & Devers, K. (2006 Jan). Specialty versus community hospitals: referrals, quality, and community benefits. Health Affairs, 25 (1):106-118.

Cromwell, J., Donoghue, S., & Gilman, B. (2002). Expansion of Medicare's Definition of Post-Acute Care Transfers. Health Care Financing Review, 24 (2):95-113.

Cromwell, J., Bartosch, W.J., Fiore, M.C., Hasselblad, V., & Baker, T. (1997 Dec 3). Cost-effectiveness of the clinical practice recommendations in the AHCPR guideline for smoking cessation. JAMA, 278 (21):1759-1766.

Cromwell, J., Adamache, K.W., Ammering, C., Bartosch, W.J., & Boulis, A. (1995). Equity of the Medicaid program to the poor versus taxpayers. Health Care Financing Review, 16 (3):75-104.

Cromwell, J., Mitchell, J.B., & Stason, W.B. (1990). Learning by Doing in Cabg Surgery. Medical Care, 28 (1):6-18.

Cromwell, J., Hurdle, S., & Wedig, G. (1986). Impacts of economic and programmatic changes on Medicaid enrollments. Review of Economics and Statistics, 68 (2):232-240.

Cromwell, J., & Mitchell, J.B. (1986). Physician-induced demand for surgery. Journal of Health Economics, 5 (4):293-313.

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