Emmett B. Keeler, Ph.D.

Professor, Health Services Professor, RAND Graduate School RAND Health 1700 Main Street Santa Monica, CA 90407-2138 (310) 393-0411 x7239 Fax: (310) 451-7025 E-mail: emmett@rand.org

Biographical Information

Emmett B. Keeler is a professor in the Department of Health Services, a Professor at the RAND graduate school and a senior mathematician at RAND. He joined RAND in 1968 after getting a Ph.D. in mathematics from Harvard. He leads a large study to evaluate a new model for helping people with chronic diseases manage their health better. He also directs a project that supplies cost-effectiveness analyses to a variety of UCLA geriatric interventions, and a project to develop a business case for providers to offer higher quality care. In the RAND Health Insurance Experiment, he investigated the theoretical and empirical effects of alternative health insurance plans on episodes of treatment and on health outcomes. He has led several projects dealing with the potential demand for and effects of Medical Savings Accounts. He taught at Harvard and the University of Chicago while on leave from RAND. He received article-of-the-year awards from the Association for Health Services Research for papers on outlier payments (1988), on the costs to others of bad health habits (1989), and on whether impoverished Medicare patients receive worse care in hospitals than do other patients (1994). He is the author or co-author of over 100 refereed articles, and 4 books.

Selected Publications

1. The Changing Effects of Competition on Non-profit and For-Profit Hospital Pricing Behavior, Emmett Keeler, Glenn Melnick, Jack Zwanziger, J Health Economics (18) 69-86, 1999.

2. A Model of the Impact of Reimbursement Schemes on Health Plan Choice, Emmett Keeler, Grace Carter, Joe Newhouse, J Hlth Econ (17) 297-320, 1998.

3. Can Medical Savings Accounts reduce health care costs for non-elderly employed Americans?" E Keeler J Malkin D Goldman J Buchanan. JAMA June 5, 1996

4. "Hospital Characteristics and Quality of Care," (E. Keeler et al.) JAMA, (268) 1709-1714, 1992.

5. "The Taxes of Sin: Do Smokers and Drinkers Pay their Way," (W. Manning, E. Keeler et al.), Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 261, March 17, 1989, pp. 1604-1609

6. "The Demand for Episodes of Treatment in the Health Insurance Experiment," Journal of Health Economics, Vol. 7, 1988, pp. 337-367. (E.Keeler, J. Rolph)

7. "Insurance Aspects of DRG Outlier Payments," Journal of Health Economics, 1988, pp. 193-214 (E. Keeler, G. Carter, and S. Trude).

8. "Discounting of Life-Saving and Other Non-monetary Effects," Management Science, March 1983 (E. Keeler, S. Cretin).

9. "Deductibles and the Demand for Medical Services: The Theory of a Consumer Facing a Variable Price Schedule Under Uncertainty," Econometrica, August 1977 (E. Keeler, J. Newhouse, C. Phelps

10. "Optimal Doubling in Backgammon," Operations Research, November 1975. (E. Keeler, J. Spencer)