Dr. Herring’s research focuses on a number of economic and public policy issues related to health insurance coverage. He has published articles in the Journal of Health Economics, Health Services Research, Journal of Risk and Insurance, and Health Affairs and is co-author of the book Pooling Health Insurance Risks. His research has been funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development, U.S. Health and Human Services ASPE, and AHRQ. His recent research projects have examined Medicaid HMOs, the individual insurance market, healthcare spending growth’s impact on wages, and state efforts at covering uninsured adults. He has recently begun a multi-year project to examine the effect of health insurance coverage on health outcomes.

Dr. Herring received his Ph.D. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, was the recipient of a two-year RWJF Scholars in Health Policy fellowship at Yale University, and served for a year with the White House’s Council of Economic Advisers. Dr. Herring teaches the four-credit course Introduction to the US Healthcare System in the second term onsite, fourth term online, and Summer Institute.

Health Economics, Health Policy, Private Health Insurance, Medicaid, Medicare, Uninsured, Healthcare Reform

"Suboptimal Provision of Preventive Healthcare Due to Expected Enrollee Turnover Among Private Insurers," Health Economics (2009). Article

"Health Care Reform in the United States," with D. Carey and P. Lenain. OECD Paper #665 (2009). Paper

"Changes in Coverage in the Individual and Group Health Insurance Markets and the Effect of Health Status," with Xue Song and Mark Pauly. US Health and Human Services ASPE Report (Washington, DC: HHS, 2008). Report

"Medicare Reform: Issues and Implications for Retiree Health Insurance," TIAA-CREF Institute's Trends and Issues Series (New York: TIAA-CREF, 2008). Paper

"Medicaid HMO Penetration and Its Mix: Did Increased Penetration Affect Physician Participation in Urban Markets?" with E. Kathleen Adams. Health Services Research 43.1.2 (2008): 363-383. Article

"Risk Pooling and Regulation: Public Policy and Reality in Today’s Individual Health Insurance Market," with Mark Pauly. Health Affairs 26.3 (2007): 770-779. Article

"The Demand for Health Insurance in the Group Setting: Can You Always Get What You Want?" with Mark Pauly. Journal of Risk and Insurance 74.1 (2007): 115–140. Article

"Incentive-Compatible Guaranteed Renewable Health Insurance Premiums," with Mark Pauly. Journal of Health Economics 25.3 (2006): 395-417. Article

"Information Technology and Consumer Search for Health Insurance," with Mark Pauly and David Song. International Journal of the Economics of Business 13.1 (2006): 45-63. Article

"The Effect of the Availability of Charity Care to the Uninsured on the Demand for Private Health Insurance," Journal of Health Economics 24.2 (2005): 225-252. Article

"Tax Credits, the Distribution of Subsidized Health Insurance Premiums, and the Uninsured," with Mark Pauly and David Song. Forum for Health Economics & Policy 5 (2002), pp. 103-122. Article

Cutting Taxes for Insuring: Options and Effects of Tax Credits for Health Insurance, with Mark Pauly. (Washington, D.C.: AEI Press, 2002). Monograph

"Premium Variation in the Individual Health Insurance Market," with Mark Pauly. International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics 1.1 (2001): 43-58. Article

"Expanding Insurance Coverage Via Tax Credits: Trade-Offs and Outcomes," with Mark Pauly. Health Affairs 20.1 (2001): 9-26. Article

"An Efficient Employer Strategy for Dealing with Adverse Selection in Multiple-Plan Offerings: An MSA Example," with Mark Pauly. Journal of Health Economics 19.4 (2001): 513-528. Article

"What Would Happen if Large Firms Offered MSAs?" with Mark Pauly, Allison Percy, and Jerry Rosenbloom. Health Affairs 19.3 (2000): 165-172. Article

"Individual Versus Job-Based Health Insurance: Weighing the Pros and Cons," with Mark Pauly and Allison Percy. Health Affairs 18.6 (1999): 28-44. Article

Pooling Health Insurance Risks, with Mark Pauly. (Washington, D.C.: AEI Press, 1999.) Book

Working Papers

"Health Risk, Income, and the Purchase of Private Health Insurance," with M. Kate Bundorf and Mark Pauly. NBER Working Paper #11677 (2005). Paper

"The Effect of State Community Rating Regulations on Premiums and Coverage in the Individual Health Insurance Market," with Mark Pauly. NBER Working Paper #12504 (2006). Paper

"Using HMOs to Serve the Medicaid Population: What Are the Effects on Utilization and Does the Type of HMO Matter?" with E. Kathleen Adams. Working Paper (2009). Paper

Presentations

A March 2009 presentation by Dr. Herring at a joint Alliance for Health Reform / Kaiser Family Foundation event on the potential complications of healthcare reform options currently under consideration can be viewed here.