Gerald Kominski, Ph.D.

Professor, Health Services Associate Director, UCLA Center for Health Policy Research UCLA Center for Health Policy Research 10960 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 1550 Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA (310) 794-2681 Fax: (310) 794-2686 E-mail: Kominski@ucla.edu

Biographical Information

Gerald F. Kominski, Ph.D., is Professor, Department of Health Services, and Director of the Health Economics and Evaluation Research Program at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. Dr. Kominski received his Ph.D. in public policy analysis with a concentration in health economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1985, and his B.A. in chemistry from the University of Chicago in 1978. He teaches classes in advanced research methods, health economics, and cost-effectiveness analysis. His research focuses on evaluating the costs and cost-effectiveness of health care programs and technologies; improving access and health outcomes, particularly among ethnic and vulnerable populations; and developing models for estimating health expenditures and forecasting population health. He currently serves as Vice Chair for the Financial Impact Analysis Team that analyses insurance mandates for the California legislature as part of the California Health Benefits Review Program (CHBRP). Prior to joining the faculty at UCLA in 1989, he served as a staff member for the Prospective Payment Assessment Commission (ProPAC) in Washington, D.C., a Congressional agency that monitored and developed Medicare hospital payment policy and is now known as the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC). His is co-editor of the widely used textbook, Changing the U.S. Health Care System: Key Issues in Health Services Policy and Management, which was published in its third edition in 2007.

Selected Publications

Andersen RM, Rice T, Kominski GF (eds.). Changing the U.S. Health Care System: Key Issues in Health Services Policy and Management, 3rd Edition, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Inc., 2007.

Kominski GF, Ripps JC, Laugesen MJ, Cosway RG, Pourat N. The California cost and coverage model: analysis of the financial impacts of benefit mandates for the California legislature. Health Services Research 2006;41(3, Part II):1027-1044.

SooHoo NF, Vyas S, Manunga J, Kominski GF, Lieberman JR. Cost-effectiveness analysis of core decompression. The Journal of Arthroplasty 2006;21(5):670-681.

Berman BA, Kominski GF. The UCLA tobacco control program. Public Health Reports 2006;121(5):515-520.

FitzGerald JD, Mangione CM, Boscardin WJ, Kominski GF, Hahn BH, Ettner SL. Impact of changes in Medicare home health care reimbursement on month-to-month home health utilization between 1996 and 2001 for a national sample of patients undergoing orthopedic procedures. Medical Care 2006;44(9):870-878.

SooHoo NF, Sharifi H, Kominski GF, Lieberman JR Cost-effectiveness analysis of unicompartmental knee arthroplasty as an alternative to total knee arthroplasty for unicompartmental osteoarthritis. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery 2006;88-A(9):1975-1982.

Kominski GF, Varon SF, Morisky DE, Malotte CK, Ebin VJ, Coly A, Chiao C. Costs and cost-effectiveness of adolescent compliance with treatment for latent tuberculosis infection: results from a randomized trial. Journal of Adolescent Health 2007;40(1):61-68.

Afifi AA, Morisky DE, Kominski GF, Kotlerman JB. Impact of disease management programs on health care utilization: evidence from Florida: a health state (FAHS) Medicaid program. Preventive Medicine 2007;44(6):547-553.

Pourat N, Kominski GF, Roby D, Cameron M. Physician perceptions of access to quality care in California’s Workers’ Compensation system. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 2007;49:618-625.

Pourat N, Kominski GF, Roby D, Cameron M. Satisfaction with care and perceptions of quality among injured workers in California’s Workers’ Compensation system. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 2007;49:1249-1256.

Kominski GF, Morisky DE, Afifi AA, Kotlerman JB. The impact of disease management on utilization of services by race and ethnicity: evidence from the Florida Medicaid program. American Journal of Managed Care 2008;14(3):168-172.

Morisky DE, Kominski GF, Afifi AA, Kotlerman JB. The effect of a disease management program on self-reported health behaviors and health outcomes: evidence from the Florida: a health state (FAHS) Medicaid program. Health Education and Behavior 2008.

Rosenstock L, Silver GB, Helsing K, Evashwick C, Katz R, Klag M, Kominski GF, Richter D, Sumaya C, Wahl P. Confronting the public health workforce crisis: ASPH statement on the public health workforce. Public Health Reports 2008;123:401-404.

Kominski GF, Pourat N, Roby D, Cameron M. Return to work and degree of recovery among injured workers in California’s Workers’ Compensation system. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 2008;50(3):296-305.

Pourat N, Kominski GF, Nihalani J, Neiman R, Bolan G. The role of HMOs in physician chlamydia screening in Medicaid managed care. Managed Care Interface 2008.

Chen J, Swonger S, Kominski GF, Liu H, Lee J, Diamant A. Cost-effectiveness of insuring the uninsured: the case of Korean American children. Forthcoming in Medical Decision Making.

Carroll D, Roby DH, Ross J, Snavely M, Brown ER, Kominski GF. What Does It Take for a Family to Afford to Pay for Health Care? Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, August 2007.

Kominski GF. Medicare’s Use of Risk Adjustment. Washington, DC: National Health Policy Forum, August 2007.