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Paul B. Ginsburg is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on the intersection of economics and health professions, with a notable record in the fields of healthcare policy, health systems, and economic evaluations.

Ginsburg has published extensively on topics including healthcare policy and management, patient satisfaction in healthcare, healthcare cost, quality and practices, primary care and health outcomes, dialysis and renal disease management, and emergency and acute care studies.

Frequently occurring research topics in their work are:

  • Healthcare Policy and Management
  • Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Healthcare cost, quality, practices
  • Primary Care and Health Outcomes
  • Dialysis and Renal Disease Management
  • Emergency and Acute Care Studies

The scientist's scholarly output is centered in the broader categories of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, and Health Professions, with subfields including Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions, Nephrology, Emergency Medicine, and Finance.

Key recent publications by Ginsburg include:

  • Substantial Growth In Medicare Advantage And Implications For Reform, 2023, Health Affairs
  • The "Advancing American Kidney Health" Executive Order: Challenges and Opportunities for the Large Dialysis Organizations, 2020, American Journal of Kidney Diseases
  • Prevalence And Characteristics Of Surprise Out-Of-Network Bills From Professionals In Ambulatory Surgery Centers, 2020, Health Affairs
  • Favorable Selection Ups The Ante On Medicare Advantage Payment Reform, 2023, Forefront Group
  • Standardizing and Synchronizing Hospital Cost Measurement-Lessons From Switzerland, 2025, JAMA Health Forum

Publication venues where Ginsburg is frequently published include:

  • Health Affairs
  • Forefront Group
  • American Journal of Kidney Diseases
  • JAMA Health Forum
  • Journal of Ambulatory Care Management

Paul B. Ginsburg collaborates regularly with a number of coauthors. The most frequent coauthors are:

  • Erin Trish
  • Steven M. Lieberman
  • Samuel Valdez
  • Erin Duffy
  • Loren Adler

Best Publications

  • The design of the community tracking study: a longitudinal study of health system change and its effects on people.

    P Kemper;D Blumenthal;J M Corrigan;P J Cunningham

  • High and rising health care costs.

    Paul B Ginsburg

  • Wide variation in hospital and physician payment rates evidence of provider market power.

    Paul B Ginsburg

  • Are market forces strong enough to deliver efficient health care systems? Confidence is waning.

    Len M. Nichols;Paul B. Ginsburg;Robert A. Berenson;Jon Christianson

  • Hospital Discharge One Week after Acute Myocardial Infarction

    J F McNeer;G S Wagner;P B Ginsburg;A G Wallace

  • Tracking Health Care Costs

    Bradley C. Strunk;Paul B. Ginsburg;Jon R. Gabel

  • The Effect Of Population Aging On Future Hospital Demand

    Bradley C. Strunk;Paul B. Ginsburg;Michelle I. Banker

  • Unchecked Provider Clout In California Foreshadows Challenges To Health Reform

    Robert A. Berenson;Paul B. Ginsburg;Nicole Kemper

  • The Growing Power Of Some Providers To Win Steep Payment Increases From Insurers Suggests Policy Remedies May Be Needed

    Robert A. Berenson;Paul B. Ginsburg;Jon B. Christianson;Tracy Yee

  • Effects of Health Care Payment Models on Physician Practice in the United States

    Mark W Friedberg;Peggy G Chen;Chapin White;Olivia Jung

  • Property Rights and Wages: The Case of Nursing Homes

    George J. Borjas;H. E. Frech;Paul B. Ginsburg

  • Deregionalization of neonatal intensive care in urban areas.

    Embry M. Howell;Douglas Richardson;Paul Ginsburg;Barbara Foot

  • The End of an Era: What Became of the “Managed Care Revolution” in 2001?

    Cara S. Lesser;Paul B. Ginsburg;Kelly J. Devers

  • Bed availability and hospital utilization: estimates of the "Roemer effect".

    Paul B. Ginsburg;Daniel M. Koretz

  • Losing ground: physician income, 1995-2003.

    Ha T Tu;Paul B Ginsburg

  • Medicare case-mix index increase.

    Paul B. Ginsburg;Grace M. Carter

  • When the price isn't right: how inadvertent payment incentives drive medical care.

    Paul B. Ginsburg;Joy M. Grossman

  • Is Health Spending Excessive? If So, What Can We Do About It?

    Henry J. Aaron;Paul B. Ginsburg

  • Controlling Health Care Costs

    Paul B Ginsburg

  • Fee-For-Service Will Remain A Feature Of Major Payment Reforms, Requiring More Changes In Medicare Physician Payment

    Paul B. Ginsburg

Frequent Co-Authors

Jon B. Christianson
Jon B. Christianson University of Minnesota
Dana P. Goldman
Dana P. Goldman University of Southern California
Peter J. Cunningham
Peter J. Cunningham Virginia Commonwealth University
Gerard F. Anderson
Gerard F. Anderson Johns Hopkins University
Peter S. Hussey
Peter S. Hussey RAND Corporation
Mark A. Hall
Mark A. Hall Wake Forest University
Harold S. Luft
Harold S. Luft Palo Alto Medical Foundation
Arnold Milstein
Arnold Milstein Stanford University

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