Thomas Rice, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Health Services; Vice Chancellor, Academic Personnel UCLA School of Public Health Box 951772 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1772 (310) 206-1824 Fax: (310) 825-3317 E-mail: trice@conet.ucla.edu

Biographical Information

Thomas Rice is Professor of the Department of Health Services. He also serves as Vice Chancellor, Academic Personnel for the UCLA campus. He teaches courses in health economics, research methodology, and current issues in health policy. Dr. Rice received his Ph.D. in Economics at the University of California at Berkeley. He has conducted research projects and published in a number of areas, including: physicians' economic behavior; health insurance for the elderly; the Medicare program; health care cost containment; the role of competition in health care reform; and managed care. Dr. Rice has testified before the U.S. Congress numerous times on various health policy issues. In 1988, he received the Association for Health Services Research Young Investigator Award, given to the outstanding health services researcher in the United States age 35 or younger. In 1992, he received the Thompson Prize from the Association for University Programs in Health Administration, awarded annually to the outstanding health services researcher in the country age 40 or under. He was elected to the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Science, in 2006. In 1998, he received the Article-of-the-Year Award from the Association for Health Services Research. Dr. Rice served as Editor of the journal, Medical Care Research and Review from 1994-2000.. The second edition of his book, The Economics of Health Reconsidered, was published in 2003.  

Selected Publications

Rice, Thomas. “The Ownership Society and Health.” Health Services Research 41(6), pp. 2025-2032, December 2006.

Hanoch, Yaniv., and Thomas Rice, “Can Limiting Choice Increase Social Welfare?: The Elderly and Health Insurance. Milbank Quarterly 84(1), April 2006, pp. 37-73.

Rice, Thomas, and Katherine A. Desmond, “The Distributional Consequences of a Medicare ‘Premium Support’ Proposal.” Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law 29(6), December 2004, pp. 1187-1226.

Rice, Thomas, and Karen Y. Matsuoka, “The Impact of Cost Sharing on Appropriate Utilization and Health Status: A Review of the Literature on Seniors.” Medical Care Research and Review 61(4), December 2004, pp. 415-452.

Rice, T., The Economics of Health Reconsidered , Second Edition, (Chicago, Health Administration Press, 2003).

Andersen, Ronald M., Thomas H. Rice, and Gerald F. Kominski, eds. Changing the U.S. Health Care System: Key Issues in Health Services, Policy, and Management. 2nd edition. (San Francisco, Jossey-Bass, 2001).

Laugesen, Miriam, J., and Thomas Rice, "Is the Doctor In? The Evolving Role of Organized Medicine in Health Policy." Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 23(2-3), April-June, 2003, pp. 289-316.

Rice, Thomas, "Individual Autonomy and State Involvement in Health Care," Journal of Medical Ethics 27(4), August 2001, pp. 240-244.

Rice, Thomas, Sally Stearns, Donal E. Pathman, Susan DesHarnais, Michelle Brasure, and Ming Tai-Seale, "A Tale of Two Bounties: The IMpact of Competing Fees on Physician Behavior." Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 24(6), Dec. 1999, pp. 1307-1330.

Rice, T., "Can Markets Give Us the Health Care System We Want?" Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law 22(2), April 1997, pp. 383-426.

Rice, Thomas. "Recent Changes in Physician Payment Policies: Impacts and Implications." Annual Review of Public Health 18, 1997, pp. 549-565.

Rice, Thomas, and Kathleen R. Morrison. "Patient Cost Sharing for Medical Services: A Review of the Literature and Implications for Health Care Reform." Medical Care Review 51(3), Fall 1994, pp. 235-287.

Labelle, Roberta, Greg Stoddart, and Thomas Rice. "A Re-Examination of the Meaning and Importance of Supplier-Induced Demand." Journal of Health Economics 13(3), October 1994, pp. 347-368.

Rice, Thomas, E. Richard Brown, and Roberta Wyn. "Holes in the Jackson Hole Approach to Health Care Reform." Journal of the American Medical Association 270(11), Sept. 15, 1993, pp. 1357-1362. (Article was reprinted in the October 14, 1993 Congressional Record, pp. E2434-E2436.)

Rice, Thomas. "Containing Health Care Costs in the United States." Medical Care Review 49(1), Spring 1992, pp. 19-65.