Exploring Health Care Payment Systems

ilseu — Thu, 03 Jun 2021 06:09:03 +0000

Exploring Health Care Payment Systems ilseu Wed, 06/02/2021 - 23:09 More News Laurie McLaughlin June 03, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic is a clear example of how crucial supply chain management is and how disruptions can affect society, according to Elodie Adida Goodman, associate professor of operations and supply chain management. “Early on, the shortage of medical supplies revealed how vulnerable ‘long’ supply chains are,” she says. “They can span many countries due to outsourcing practices.

“The issues we have faced are evidence that building resilient supply chains will be critical for the next crisis the country will face.”

Goodman’s current research explores health-care payment systems, and her most recent co-authored articles include the forthcoming “Reference Pricing for Healthcare Services” in Manufacturing & Service Operations Management and “Outcome-Based Pricing for New Pharmaceuticals via Rebates” published in Management Science in 2021.

“I find it fascinating that changing the way payment incentives are designed can have a real effect on people’s lives, such as improving access to drugs, and physicians or patients making better treatment decisions,” she says. “Since the health-care reform of 2010, there has been more attention devoted to removing inefficiencies and reducing costs without sacrificing the quality of care. Some of this can be achieved by changing the way we pay for treatments and services.”

Goodman was recently appointed to the editorial boards of two top journals in the field: She is an associate editor for both Management Science and Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. She also serves as senior editor for Production and Operations Management.

While her research and leadership within the field are widely respected by her peers, Goodman finds satisfaction helping students understand the complexities of analytical techniques. “I teach quantitative courses, which business students sometimes find among the most challenging in their program,” she says.

“With the increasing importance of data analysis in the workplace, I focus on how to think about a problem and the intuition and reasoning behind a formula rather than the numbers. In my opinion, quantitative courses are not really about calculations, they’re more about reasoning.”

Faculty Achieve High Honors

ilseu — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 22:42:30 +0000

Faculty Achieve High Honors ilseu Wed, 03/31/2021 - 15:42 More News March 31, 2021

Among the most recent UCR School of Business faculty honors and achievements:

Editorships at Top Journals

Elodie Adida Goodman, associate professor of operations and supply chain management, was recently appointed to the editorial boards of two top journals in the field: She is an associate editor for both Management Science and Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. She also serves as senior editor for Production and Operations Management. Goodman’s current research explores health-care payment systems, and her most recent co-authored articles include the forthcoming “Reference Pricing for Healthcare Services” in Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, and “Outcome-Based Pricing for New Pharmaceuticals via Rebates” in Management Science.

American Accounting Association’s Best Paper Award

The American Accounting Association, the apex organization of accountants in academia, has awarded the prestigious Journal of Information Systems (JIS) best paper award in the accounting information systems section to “Budget Adjustments and Spending Patterns: A Transaction-Cycle View,” published in JIS and co-authored by Birendra (Barry) K. Mishra, professor of accounting information systems. The paper is first to operationalize “transaction cycles” (TC), a fundamental construct of accounting information systems, and provides a theory-based competing alternative for TC-based budgeting. Using the rational expectations theory-based partial adjustment model and Porter’s value chain concept, the authors find “that a transaction cycle’s position in the value chain and its technology content plays a critical role in determining asymmetric ratcheting during budgeting.”

Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Volunteer Service Award

Danko Turcic, associate professor of operations and supply chain management, was recently selected for the Manufacturing & Service Operations Management journal’s 2020 Meritorious Service Award. The honor recognizes the outstanding service Turcic provided over the past year to the journal and to the professional community. “We depend on the volunteer services of many, but your work and effort have stood out, and we wish to recognize [you] with this award,” says Georgia Perakis, editor-in-chief of Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, of Turcic’s contributions.

Elodie Goodman

Exploring Health Care Payment Systems

Faculty Achieve High Honors

Editorships at Top Journals

American Accounting Association’s Best Paper Award

Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Volunteer Service Award