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Covering Managed Care
A resource guide for reporters and editors

 

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FINANCIAL ANALYSTS

Some of the these analysts say that they don't want to talk to reporters unless they represent large news organizations or unless their own public relations department gives the okay. We list them anyway. Perhaps you'll be lucky.

Ken Abramowitz

Sanford Bernstein and Co. 767 Fifth Ave., New York, N.Y. 10153, (212) 756-4590, fax (212) 756-4462.

Karen Boezi

Coral Ventures, 3000 Sand Hill Road Bldg. 3, Menlo Park, Calif. 94025, (650) 854-5226, fax (650) 854-4625.

Geoffrey Harris

Salomon Smith Barney, 388 Greenwich St., 30th Floor, New York, N.Y. 10013, (212) 816-0231, fax (212) 816-0799; also Matt Ripperger (212) 816-8309.

Roberta Walter

Merrill Lynch, World Financial Center, N. Tower, New York, N.Y. 10281, (212) 449-6782, fax (212) 449-3819.

Patricia Widner

Warburg Pincus, 466 Lexington Ave., New York, N.Y. 10017, (212) 878-9378, fax (212) 878-9351.

KEY RESEARCHERS WHO STUDY MANAGED CARE AND CONSUMER BEHAVIOR

These people have researched how consumers use information in selecting managed care organizations.

Judith Hibbard, Department of Planning, Public Policy and Management, University of Oregon

(541) 346-3364, fax (541) 346-2040, e-mail: jhibbard@oregon.edu.

Steven Garfinkel, Research Triangle Institute

P.O. Box 12194, Research Triangle Park, N.C. 27709, (919) 541-6382, fax (919) 541-5945, e-mail: sag@rti.org.

James Lubalin, principal CAHPS cooperative agreement, Research Triangle Institute

1615 M St. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036, (202) 728-2041, fax: (202) 728-2095, e-mail: jsl@rti.org.

Shoshanna Sofaer, School of Public Affairs, Baruch College

17 Lexington Ave., Box F2021, New York, N.Y. 10010, (212) 802-5980, fax (212) 414-1615, e-mail: shoshannasofaer@bar uch.cuny.edu.

KEY RESEARCHERS WHO STUDY HEALTH SERVICES, QUALITY, AND DELIVERY

Some of the best researchers in health care, they are excellent sources and usually available to the media.

Donald Berwick, president Institute for Healthcare Improvement

135 Francis St., Boston, Mass. 10215, (617) 754-4852, fax (617) 754-4848, e mail: dberwick@ihi.org. Specialty: quality.

David Blumenthal, director Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital/Partners HealthCare System

50 Staniford St., Boston, Mass. 02114, (617) 724-4653, fax (617) 724-4738, e-mail: dblumenthal@partners.org. Specialty: quality.

Robert Brook, vice president RAND Corp.

P.O. Box 2138, Santa Monica, Calif. 90407, (310) 393-0411, ext. 7368, fax (310) 451-6917, Web site: www.rand.org, e-mail: robert_ brook@rand.org. Specialty: quality.

Mark Chassin, chairman, department of health policy, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine

1 Gustave L. Levy Place, Box 1077, New York, N.Y. 10029, (212) 241-5379, fax (212) 423-2998, e-mail: mark_chassin@smtplink.mssm.edu. Specialty: quality.

Janet Corrigan, director of health care services division, Institute of Medicine

2101 Constitution Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20418, (202) 334-2165, fax (202) 334-1463, e-mail: jcorriga@nas.edu. Specialty: quality and health services.

Arnold Epstein, chairman department of health policy and management, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University

677 Huntington Ave., Boston, Mass. 02115, (617) 432-3415, fax (617) 432-3417, e-mail: aepstein@hsph.harvard.edu. Specialty: access to care.

Marsha Gold, senior fellow Mathematica Policy Research

600 Maryland Ave. S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024, (202) 484-4227 ext.4227, fax (202) 863-1763, e-mail: mgold@mathematica-mpr.com. Specialty: managed care systems and delivery.

Brent James, vice president for medical research, Intermountain Health Care

36 S. State St., Salt Lake City, Utah 84111, (801) 442-3730, fax (801) 442-3486, e-mail: bj@ihc.com. Specialty: quality.

Harold Luft, director of the Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California, San Francisco

1388 Sutter St., San Francisco, Calif. 94109, (415) 476 5147, fax (415) 476-0705, e-mail: hluft@itsa.ucsf.edu. Specialty: quality, health systems, and risk adjustment.

Elizabeth McGlynn, director center for research on quality in health care, RAND Corp.

P.O. Box 2138, Santa Monica, Calif. 90407, (310) 393-0411, ext.7411, Web site: www.rand.org, e-mail: mcglynn@rand.org. Specialty: quality.

Albert Siu, chief of the division of general internal medicine, Mt. Sinai Medical Center

Box 1087, New York, N.Y. 10029, (212) 241-4290, fax (212) 831-8116, e-mail: asiu@smtplink.mssm.edu. Specialty: quality.