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Laurence BakerAcademic Appointments
Appointment
Organization
Professor
Professor (By courtesy)
Economics
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Honors & Awards
Title
Organization
Date(s)
ASHE Medal
American Society of Health Economists
2008
Alice S. Hersh Young Investigator Award
Academy for Health Services Research and Health Policy
2000
NIHCM Research Award
National Institute for Health Care Management
1999
Administrative Appointments
Title
Organization
Start Year
End Year
Director of the Scholarly Concentration Program
Stanford University
2007
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Chief of Health Services Research
Department of Health Research and Policy
2001
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Research Associate
National Bureau of Economic Research
2002
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Fellow
Stanford Center for Health Policy
2000
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Professional Education
Degree
Awarding Institution
Field of Study
Year of Graduation
PhD
Princeton University
Economics
1994
MA
Princeton University
Economics
1994
Research Interests
Much of my current research examines the impacts of changing financial incentives and organizational structures on health care provision and costs. One aspect of work in this area involves studying impacts of managed care. My work in this area investigates the relationships between HMO activity and health care costs, the pricing of physician services, prices for conventional health insurance, and the availability and utilization of medical technologies like MRI and mammography machines. I study the ways that managed care plans have been used in the Medicaid program, and its effects on Medicaid patients. I also study other health care organizations like physician groups and their impact on care and outcomes.
I am also interested in impacts of government regulation in health care, the role of information technology in health, and physician labor markets.
I am also interested in impacts of government regulation in health care, the role of information technology in health, and physician labor markets.
Publications
- Baker LC, Fisher ES, Wennberg JE "Variations in hospital resource use for medicare and privately insured populations in California." Health Aff (Millwood) 2008 Mar-Apr; 27: 2: w123-34 More »
- Ketcham JD, Baker LC, MacIsaac D "Physician practice size and variations in treatments and outcomes: evidence from Medicare patients with AMI." Health Aff (Millwood) 2007 Jan-Feb; 26: 1: 195-205 More »
- Phibbs CS, Baker LC, Caughey AB, Danielsen B, Schmitt SK, Phibbs RH "Level and volume of neonatal intensive care and mortality in very-low-birth-weight infants." N Engl J Med 2007; 356: 21: 2165-75 More »
- Baker LC, Chan J "Laws requiring health plans to provide direct access to obstetricians and gynecologists, and use of cancer screening by women." Health Serv Res 2007; 42: 3 Pt 1: 990-1007 More »
- Singer S, Meterko M, Baker L, Gaba D, Falwell A, Rosen A "Workforce perceptions of hospital safety culture: development and validation of the patient safety climate in healthcare organizations survey." Health Serv Res 2007; 42: 5: 1999-2021 More »
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