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

Bernard Friedman, Ph.D.

Bernard Friedman, Ph.D., is an economist who specializes in research on health care costs, and utilization of expensive services in a changing health care marketplace. At the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), he has analyzed the responses of hospitals to changes in Medicare and regulatory programs, and the supply of expensive hospital-based services such as organ transplants, hip replacement surgery, and intensive care services to adults and infants. He is also active in research on preventable hospital admissions and other applications of the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) databases. In addition to intramural research, he is the project officer on a number of extramural cooperative studies on the features of managed care affecting people with chronic conditions.

Dr. Friedman's work in health economics has been published in many recognized books and journals such as Review of Economics and Statistics, Medical Care, Health Services Research, Health Care Financing Review, and Health Affairs.

Dr. Friedman holds a doctorate in economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was formerly a faculty member of Northwestern University and served as vice president for research at the Hospital Research and Educational Trust.

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