Thomas Rice, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. Between 2006 and 2011, he also served as vice chancellor of academic personnel for UCLA. Dr. Rice received his doctorate in economics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1982. He served on the faculty at the University of North Carolina School of Public Health from 1983 to 1991 before joining UCLA. Dr. Rice has published widely on issues such as the behavioral economics of healthcare, competition and regulation in health services, comparative healthcare systems, health insurance, physicians’ economic behavior, cost containment, and the Medicare program. He is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. Previously, he served as editor of the journal Medical Care Research and Review and was chair of the board of directors of AcademyHealth. His most recent book is Health Insurance Systems: An International Comparison (2021).

 

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