Robert I Field
Biographic Data
| ID | 6062620 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert I Field |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert I |
| FAMILY NAME | Field |
| SIGNATURE | FIELD R I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Drexel University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1325-3504 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Can Current Legal Tools Respond Adequately to Risks of Private Equity Investment in Health Care
As private equity (PE) funds acquire a growing share of America's health care system, their focus has expanded to include not only hospitals and nursing homes but also physician practices. Some PE acquisitions have infused much-needed capital into resource-starved entities, but others have led to higher prices, diminished quality of services, and billing fraud. Some PE acquisitions have also forced viable entities into bankruptcy by stripping the…
How to Motivate Equity in Health Decision Modeling
American health care is rife with inequity in access to services. Even among people with insurance, inequity can result from insurers' decisions about which services to cover. These decisions are often based on economic models that are seemingly objective but neglect factors affecting people who are economically disadvantaged. Laws and government programs designed to mitigate inequities in access have limited value in addressing bias in models th…
Measuring the Covid-19 Financial Threat to Hospital Markets
Many hospitals have been straining under the financial stress of treating COVID-19 patients. Those experiencing the greatest strain are in markets burdened with high levels of debt and uncompensated care. We propose a new measure of financial risk in a hospital market, combining both pre-existing financial vulnerability and COVID-19 severity. It reveals the highest concentrations of risk in counties with high poverty, low population density, and …
Can governments push providers to collaborate? A comparison of hospital network reforms in France and the United States
Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Primary Health Care
The Ethics of Expanding Health Coverage through the Private Market
The private health care industry in the United States is larger than that of any other country in the world [1]. It accounts for about half of all health care spending, and it costs more, both on a per-capita basis and as a share of gross domestic product, than the entire health system of many developed countries [2]. Over the course of decades, its rate of growth has continued unabated [3]
An Education in Contrast
Objectives. We reviewed the complexities of school-related immunization policies, their relation to immunization information systems (IIS) and immunization registries, and the historical context to better understand this convoluted policy system. Methods. We used legal databases (Lexis-Nexis and Westlaw) to identify school immunization records policies for 50 states, 5 cities, and the District of Columbia (Centers for Disease Control and Preventi…
Patterns in the Laws on Health Risks
Although Congress has mandated that one federal agency or another confront almost every major health, safety, and environmental risk, the risk management techniques that have been devised appear to be incoherent and inconsistent. A closer look at this morass of federal risk legislation, however, reveals an overall structure that can help to categorize risk statutes, to discern trends in their composition, and to predict future legislative initiat…
Patterns in the Laws on Health Risks
Although Congress has mandated that one federal agency or another confront almost every major health, safety, and environmental risk, the risk management techniques that have been devised appear to be incoherent and inconsistent. A closer look at this morass of federal risk legislation, however, reveals an overall structure that can help to categorize risk statutes, to discern trends in their composition, and to predict future legislative initiat…
An Education in Contrast
Objectives. We reviewed the complexities of school-related immunization policies, their relation to immunization information systems (IIS) and immunization registries, and the historical context to better understand this convoluted policy system. Methods. We used legal databases (Lexis-Nexis and Westlaw) to identify school immunization records policies for 50 states, 5 cities, and the District of Columbia (Centers for Disease Control and Preventi…
The Ethics of Expanding Health Coverage through the Private Market
The private health care industry in the United States is larger than that of any other country in the world [1]. It accounts for about half of all health care spending, and it costs more, both on a per-capita basis and as a share of gross domestic product, than the entire health system of many developed countries [2]. Over the course of decades, its rate of growth has continued unabated [3]
Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Primary Health Care
Can governments push providers to collaborate? A comparison of hospital network reforms in France and the United States
How to Motivate Equity in Health Decision Modeling
American health care is rife with inequity in access to services. Even among people with insurance, inequity can result from insurers' decisions about which services to cover. These decisions are often based on economic models that are seemingly objective but neglect factors affecting people who are economically disadvantaged. Laws and government programs designed to mitigate inequities in access have limited value in addressing bias in models th…
Measuring the Covid-19 Financial Threat to Hospital Markets
Many hospitals have been straining under the financial stress of treating COVID-19 patients. Those experiencing the greatest strain are in markets burdened with high levels of debt and uncompensated care. We propose a new measure of financial risk in a hospital market, combining both pre-existing financial vulnerability and COVID-19 severity. It reveals the highest concentrations of risk in counties with high poverty, low population density, and …
Can Current Legal Tools Respond Adequately to Risks of Private Equity Investment in Health Care
As private equity (PE) funds acquire a growing share of America's health care system, their focus has expanded to include not only hospitals and nursing homes but also physician practices. Some PE acquisitions have infused much-needed capital into resource-starved entities, but others have led to higher prices, diminished quality of services, and billing fraud. Some PE acquisitions have also forced viable entities into bankruptcy by stripping the…
Business (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · Healthcare Policy and Management (6 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Environmental health (4 works) · Health care (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Public economics (4 works) · Finance (3 works) · Political science (3 works)