Martin Gaynor
E. J. Barone Chair in Health Systems Management, Professor of Economics and Health Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
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Howard Birnbaum
Education:
Ph.D., and M.A., economics, Northwestern University
Summary of Experience:
Professor Gaynor is an expert in health economics with a particular focus on antitrust issues. His research on health care markets concentrates on the restructuring of health care markets and implications for antitrust policy, vertical restraints in health care, the industrial organization of the physician services market, and the effects of information in markets for health services. His research on the economics of health care organizations is focused on the determinants of the internal organization of medical group practices and the effects of these arrangements on group performance, and the determinants of hospital behavior and the consequent implications for performance. He has submitted testimony on antitrust issues related to HMO mergers to the California State Senate Committee on Insurance and has consulted to the Federal Trade Commission, the Alliance of American Insurers, and the State of California Department of Corporations. His abstract entitled "Antitrust and Competition in Health Care Markets" (with William B. Vogt, Handbook of Health Economics, April 1999), analyzed the specific issues surrounding competition and antitrust legislation in the health care industry. Dr. Gaynor was awarded the 1996 Kenneth J. Arrow Award for best published article worldwide in health economics and is the recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research.