| | Meredith Rosenthal, Associate Professor of Health Economics and Policy, Department of Health Policy and Management, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | Most recently, Dr. Rosenthal has been collaborating on a study involving interlocking national surveys of health benefit purchasers and health plans to examine efforts to improve the value of health care, including the use of pay-for-performance, tiered networks, and public reporting of quality information. |
 | | Rosenthal is also working on an evaluation of the uptake and impact of health risk appraisals (HRAs) in a large national health plan. |
 | | Finally, Dr. Rosenthal has begun to examine the implementation of a set of strategies designed to improve the value of health care spending in a Preferred Provider Organization model plan (“the PPO”, hereafter) that insures low-wage workers in a single metropolitan area. |
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