Center for Delivery, Organization, and Markets (CDOM): Staff Biographies

Claudia Steiner, M.D., M.P.H.

Claudia A. Steiner, M.D., M.P.H., is a research medical officer with the Center for Delivery, Organization and Markets (CDOM), within the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Dr. Steiner is a board-certified internist who conducts and manages research for the Center. Her research interests include the adoption and diffusion of new minimally-invasive technology, and the influence of minimally-invasive technology on standards of care, utilization and clinical outcomes. She also studies delivery of care in the ambulatory setting. She has examined the process and considerations used by private indemnity and managed care insurers when determining coverage for new medical technology. She helps with the design, management and dissemination of the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP). She participates in the recruitment of partner states and in the production of the ambulatory surgery data. Dr. Steiner has experience with both primary and secondary data, including a national survey of health insurers, and administrative databases.

Dr. Steiner has published in The New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, the Journal of General Internal Medicine, the International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, the American Journal of Managed Care, and Medical Care. She referees papers for these same journals and has served as a deputy editor for The Journal of General Internal Medicine.

Dr. Steiner received her medical degree and completed residency training in Internal Medicine at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. Subsequently, she obtained a Masters of Public Health at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health while completing a research fellowship through the Department of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. She is licensed to practice medicine in Maryland, and continues to see patients part-time within the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions.

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