Dana P. Goldman

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Affiliated Adjunct Staff; Professor, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Santa Monica Office

Education

Ph.D. in economics, Stanford University; B.A. in economics, Cornell University

Overview

Biography

Dana P. Goldman was the founding director of the Bing Center for Health Economics at RAND and director of the RAND Roybal Center for Health Policy Simulation. He is a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Goldman's research interests combine applied microeconomics and medical issues, with a special interest in the role that medical technology and health insurance play in determining health-related outcomes. Goldman received his B.A. in economics from Cornell University and his Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University.

Research Focus

Recent Projects

  • Understanding How Cost-Sharing Affects Use of Specialty Drugs
  • Education, Self-Management, and Adherence
  • An Investigation of the Viatical Settlements Market
  • Public Policy and Pharmaceutical Innovation Around the World

Selected Publications

Darius Noshir Lakdawalla et al., "HIV Breakthroughs and Risky Sexual Behavior," Quarterly Journal of Economics, 121(3), 2006

D. Goldman et al., "Consequences of Health Trends and Medical Innovation for the Elderly of the Future," Health Affairs [Web exclusive], 2005

D. Goldman and J. Smith, "Socioeconomic Differences in the Adoption of New Medical Technologies," American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 95(2), 2005

D. P. Goldman et al., "Pharmacy Benefits and the Use of Drugs by the Chronically Ill," Journal of the American Medical Association, 291(19), 2004

E. Keeler et al., "Can Medical Savings Accounts for the Nonelderly Reduce Health Care Costs?" Journal of the American Medical Association, 275(21), 1996

Recent Media Appearances

Interviews: ABC; Bloomberg News; Boston Globe; CBS; CNN; The Economist; HealthDay.com; NBC; USA Today; Wall Street Journal

Commentary: Los Angeles Times; Press-Enterprise; United Press International

Commentary

Fix the Healthcare System (and Fight the Recession, Too) — Aug 21, 2009

  • CNN.com

Improve Health, Not the Health Care System — Jun 23, 2009

  • NYTimes.com

Limiting Treatment to Those Who Need It — Apr 29, 2009

  • KQED online

A Better Way to Pay for Prescriptions — Apr 19, 2008

  • Providence Journal

The HSA Mirage — Feb 20, 2006

  • United Press International

Pressure from Rising Health-Care Costs: How Can Consumers Get Relief? — Oct 23, 2005

  • Press-Enterprise

Health Costs of Katrina — Oct 11, 2005

  • United Press International

Take Two Aspirin and Call Congress — Dec 11, 2002

  • Los Angeles Times

A Third-and Better-Way for Prescription-Drug Coverage — Nov 5, 2000

  • Los Angeles Times

Publications

Medical Expenditure Risk and Household Portfolio Choice - 2013

Three Large-Scale Changes to the Medicare Program Could Curb Its Costs but Also Reduce Enrollment - 2013

An Analysis of Whether Higher Health Care Spending in the United States Versus Europe Is 'Worth It' in the Case of Cancer - 2012

Differences in Life Expectancy Due to Race and Educational Differences Are Widening, and Many May Not Catch Up - 2012

Patients Value Metastatic Cancer Therapy More Highly Than Is Typically Shown Through Traditional Estimates - 2012

Survey Results Show That Adults Are Willing to Pay Higher Insurance Premiums for Generous Coverage of Specialty Drugs - 2012

The Large Social Value Resulting from Use of Statins Warrants Steps to Improve Adherence and Broaden Treatment - 2012

Food Prices and the Dynamics of Body Weight - 2011

Growing Internet Use May Help Explain the Rise in Prescription Drug Abuse in the United States - 2011

Hospital Spending and Inpatient Mortality: Evidence from California: An Observational Study - 2011

Prescription Medication Abuse and Illegitimate Internet-Based Pharmacies - 2011

Preventing Obesity and Its Consequences: Highlights of RAND Health Research - 2011

Racial and ethnic disparities in hospital care resulting from air pollution in excess of federal standards - 2011

An Economic Evaluation of the War on Cancer - 2010

Bending the Curve Through Health Reform Implementation - 2010

Cost and Health Consequences of Air Pollution in California - 2010

Coverage and Preventive Screening - 2010

Medicare Facts and Figures Chartbook - 2010

Sexually Transmitted Diseases Among Users of Erectile Dysfunction Drugs: Analysis of Claims Data - 2010

The Effects of Relative Food Prices on Obesity: Evidence from China 1991-2006 - 2010

The Fiscal Consequences of Trends in Population Health - 2010

The Impact of Air Quality on Hospital Spending - 2010

Valuing Health Technologies at NICE: Recommendations for Improved Incorporation of Treatment Value in HTA - 2010

Aging in America in the Twenty-First Century: Demographic Forecasts from the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on an Aging Society - 2009

An Economic Evaluation of the War on Cancer - 2009

Cost Sharing and the Initiation of Drug Therapy for the Chronically Ill - 2009

Food Prices and the Dynamics of Body Weight - 2009

International Differences in Longevity and Health and Their Economic Consequences - 2009

Medicare Part D After 2 Years - 2009

Prescription Drug Cost Sharing: A Powerful Policy Lever to Use with Care - 2009

Price Variation in Markets with Homogeneous Goods: The Case of Medigap - 2009

The Benefits of Risk Factor Prevention in Americans Aged 51 Years and Older - 2009

The Effect of Regulation on Pharmaceutical Revenues: Experience in Nineteen Countries - 2009

The Effects of Product Liability Exemption in the Presence of the FDA - 2009

U.S. Pharmaceutical Policy in a Global Marketplace - 2009

Understanding the Economic Consequences of Shifting Trends in Population Health - 2009

When Drug Cost-Sharing Increases, Patients Newly Diagnosed with a Chronic Illness Delay Starting Medication - 2009

A Better Way to Pay for Prescriptions - 2008

Does Age or Life Expectancy Better Predict Health Care Expenditures? - 2008

Drug Licenses: A New Model for Pharmaceutical Pricing - 2008

Hospitals as Hotels: The Role of Patient Amenities in Hospital Demand - 2008

How Costly Is Hospital Quality? A Revealed-Preference Approach - 2008

Identifying, Categorizing, and Evaluating Health Care Efficiency Measures - 2008

Impact of Specialty Drugs on the Use of Other Medical Services - 2008

Life Expectancy Is Better Than Age as a General Predictor of Health Care Expenditures - 2008

Medicare Part D: A Successful Start with Room for Improvement Spending - 2008

Modeling the Health and Medical Care Spending of the Future Elderly - 2008

Regulating Drug Prices: U.S. Policy Alternatives in a Global Context - 2008

A Look inside the "Doughnut Hole": How Drug-Benefit Limits Affect Retiree Prescription Use - 2007

A Systematic Review of the Adverse Effects of Prescription Drug Cost Sharing - 2007

Medical Expenditure Risk and Household Portfolio Choice - 2007

Obesity and Disability: The Shape of Things to Come - 2007

Pharmacy Benefit Caps and the Chronically Ill - 2007

Prescription Drug Cost Sharing: Associations with Medication and Medical Utilization and Spending and Health - 2007

Prescription Drug Coverage and Elderly Medicare Spending - 2007

Price Variation in Markets with Homogeneous Goods: The Case of Medigap - 2007

RAND Review: Vol. 31, No. 3, Fall 2007 - 2007

The Promise of Health Care Cost Containment - 2007

Adverse Selection in Retiree Prescription Drug Plans - 2006

Benefit Design and Specialty Drug Use - 2006

Cutting Drug Co-Payments for Sicker Patients on Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs Could Save a Billion Dollars Every Year - 2006

Disparities in Care for HIV Patients: Results of the HCSUS Study - 2006

Estimating Probit Models with Self-Selected Treatments - 2006

HIV Breakthroughs and Risky Sexual Behavior - 2006

Immigrants and the Cost of Medical Care - 2006

Medicare Facts and Figures: A California Perspective - 2006

Rising Medicare Costs: Are We in Crisis? - 2006

The Public Spends Little to Provide Health Care for Undocumented Immigrants - 2006

The Value of Elderly Disease Prevention - 2006

Varying Pharmacy Benefits with Clinical Status: The Case of Cholesterol-Lowering Therapy - 2006

A Socioeconomic Profile of Older Adults with HIV - 2005

Consequences of Health Trends and Medical Innovation for the Future Elderly - 2005

Disability and Health Care Spending Among Medicare Beneficiaries - 2005

Future Health and Medical Care Spending of the Elderly: Implications for Medicare - 2005

Health Costs of Katrina - 2005

How Cost Sharing Affects Use of Drugs by the Chronically Ill - 2005

Identifying Potential Health Care Innovations for the Future Elderly - 2005

Legal Status and Health Insurance Among Immigrants - 2005

Moving Towards Better Formulary Management - 2005

Socioeconomic Differences in the Adoption of New Medical Technologies - 2005

Technological Advances in Cancer and Future Spending By the Elderly - 2005

The Health and Cost Consequences of Obesity Among the Future Elderly - 2005

The Lifetime Burden of Chronic Disease Among the Elderly - 2005

U.S. Health Care: Facts About Cost, Access, and Quality - 2005

Wage and Benefit Changes in Response to Rising Health Insurance Costs - 2005

An Analysis of Unobserved Selection in a Inpatient Diagnostic Cost Group Model - 2004

Are the Young Becoming More Disabled? Rates of Disability Appear to Be on the Rise Among People Ages Eighteen to Fifty-Nine, Fueled By a Growing Obesity Epidemic - 2004

Disability Forecasts and Future Medicare Costs - 2004

Effect of an Imaging-Based Streamlined Electronic Healthcare Process on Quality and Costs - 2004

Effective HIV Treatment and the Employment of HIV+ Adults - 2004

Employee Responses to Health Insurance Premium Increases - 2004

HIV Breakthroughs and Risky Sexual Behavior - 2004

Health Care in California: A Policy Assessment - 2004

Health Insurance: Should California Regulate Health Insurance Premiums? - 2004

Health Status and Medical Treatment of the Future Elderly: Final Report - 2004

Increased Medicare Expenditures for Physicians' Services: What Are the Causes? - 2004

Market Evidence of Misperceived Prices and Mistaken Mortality Risks - 2004

Pharmacy Benefits and the Use of Drugs by the Chronically Ill - 2004

Price Regulation in Secondary Insurance Markets - 2004

The Changing Face of Pharmacy Benefit Design: A Small Group of Pharmacy Benefit Experts Suggests That Changes Could Be Coming for Tiered Copayment Designs - 2004

The Reallocation of Compensation in Response to Health Insurance Premium Increases - 2004

A Response to the Points By Manton and Williamson - 2003

Are the Young Becoming More Disabled? Appendix - 2003

Can Patient Self-Management Help Explain the SES Health Gradient? - 2003

Determinants of Increases in Medicare Expenditure for Physicians' Services - 2003

Determinants of Increases in Medicare Expenditures for Physicians' Services - 2003

Forecasting the Nursing Home Population - 2003

High Out-of-Pocket Health Care Spending By the Elderly - 2003

Incremental Treatment Costs in National Cancer Institute-sponsored Clinical Trials - 2003

Insurance Status of HIV-infected Adults in the Post-Haart Era: Evidence from the United States - 2003

Participation of Patients 65 Years of Age or Older in Cancer Clinical Trials - 2003

Sampling Patients Within and Across Health Care Providers: Multi-Stage Non-Nested Samples in Health Services Research - 2003

The Link Between Public and Private Insurance and HIV-related Mortality - 2003

Cost Sharing Cuts Employers' Drug Spending -- But Employees Don't Get the Savings - 2002

Costs of a Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit: A Comparison of Alternatives - 2002

Employer Drug Benefit Plans and Spending on Prescription Drugs - 2002

The Costs of a Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit - 2002

The Costs of a Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit: A Comparison of Alternatives - 2002

The Link Between Public and Private Insurance and HIV-related Mortality - 2002

Commentary: Methodological Biases in Estimating the Burden of Out-of-Pocket Expenses - 2001

Costs of Conducting Cancer Clinical Trials - 2001

Effect of Insurance on Mortality in an HIV-positive Population in Care - 2001

Expenditures for the Care of HIV-infected Patients in the Era of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy - 2001

Measuring the Incremental Cost of Clinical Cancer Research - 2001

Methodological Biases in Estimating the Burden of Out-of-Pocket Expenses - 2001

Patterns of Enlisted Compensation - 2001

RE: Surveys Identify Barriers to Participation in Clinical Trials - 2001

Re: Surveys Identify Barriers to Participation in Clinical Trials - 2001

Self-Reported Behavior and Attitudes of Enrollees in Capitated and Fee-for-Service Dental Benefit Plans - 2001

The Impact of State Policy on the Cost of HIV Infection - 2001

Use of Unpaid and Paid Home Care Services Among People with HIV Infection in the USA - 2001

Using Hospital Tumor Registries to Identify Research Subjects - 2001

A Third--And Better--Way for Prescription-Drug Coverage - 2000

Access of Vulnerable Groups to Antiretroviral Therapy Among Persons in Care for HIV Disease in the United States - 2000

Access to HIV Care: Initial Results from the HIV Cost and Services Utilization Study - 2000

Extending Health Care Insurance to Specific Populations: Profile of RAND Work - 2000

Improving the Quality of Care Through Routine Teleradiology Consultation - 2000

Providing Managed Care Options for a Large Population: Evaluating the CHAMPUS Reform Initiative - 2000

Queuing for Surgery: Is the U.S. or Canada Worse Off? - 2000

Simulating the Impact of Medical Savings Accounts on Small Business - 2000

The Cost of Cancer Treatment Study's Design and Methods - 2000

Cost-containment and adverse selection in Medicaid HMOs - 1999

Interim Report: Evaluation of the Medicare-DoD Subvention Demonstration - 1999

Managed Care in Dental Markets: Is the Experience of Medicine Relevant? - 1999

National Probability Samples in Studies of Low-Prevalence Diseases - 1999

Variation in Inpatient Resource Use in the Treatment of HIV: Do the Privately Insured Receive More Care? - 1999

Variations in the Care of HIV-infected Adults in the United States: Results from the HIV Cost and Services Utilization Study - 1999

Medicare MSA Issues and Options - 1998

Redistributional Consequences of Community Rating - 1997

Can medical savings accounts for the nonelderly reduce health care costs? - 1996

The effects of benefit design and managed care on health care costs - 1996

Managed care as a public-cost containment mechanism - 1995

Evaluating Health Care Reform Using the Healt and Retirement Survey: A Case Study of the Health Security Act of 1993 - 1994

Job Loss Due to Health Care Reform - 1994

Job Loss Due to Health Care Reform: Testimony before the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources, October 19, 1993 - 1994

Job loss due to health insurance mandates - 1994

The Impact of Regulation and Financial Incentives on Cost-of-Illness - 1994

Evaluation of the CHAMPUS Reform Initiative: Volume 3, Health Care Utilization and Costs - 1993

Physician Prescribing Behavior and Its Impact on Patient-Level Outcomes -