Dr. Lave is Chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management, Director of the Health Administration Program and Professor of Health Economics at the Graduate School of Public Health and co-director of the Center for Research on Health Care at the University of Pittsburgh. . Her main interests are in the cost; utilization and financing of health care services with particular focus on issues related to the Medicare Program. Recent interest has focused on selected issues related to managed behavioral health care. She is a member of the Technical Advisory Group for the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council. She was a commissioner on the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission and its predecessor commission - the Prospective Payment Assessment Commission.
Research Areas of Interest: health care economics and aging
Representative Articles
Lave JR, Keane CR, Lin CJ, Ricci EM, Amersbach G, LaVallee CP. The Impact of a Children’s Health Insurance Program on Newly Enrolled Children. JAMA. 1998. 279(22):1820-1825.
Lave JR, Lin CC, Hughes-Cromwick P, Fine MJ. The Cost of Treating Patients with Community Acquired Pneumonia . Seminars in Respiratory Critical Care Medicine. 1999; 20(3).
Lave JR, Peele PB, Xu Y, Scholle SH, Pincus HA. Use of Behavioral Health Care Services Within Families. Psychiatric Services. 2002. 53: 743-748
Kruse RL, Boles KE, Mehr DR, Spalding S, Lave JR. The Cost of Treating Pneumonia in the Nursing Home Setting. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 2003. 4(2):81-89.
Lave JR. Developing a Medicare Prospective Payment System for Inpatient Psychiatric Care. Health Affairs . 2003.22(5): 97-109.
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