Hal Luft, PhD
Professor Emeritus
Institute for Health Policy Studies
School of Medicine

Interests

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• Implementation Science
• Clinic
• Implementation & dissemination science listservs
• Payment changes for ambulatory care
• Provider incentives and information feedback
• Interdisciplinary research collaboration
• General delivery system issues
• Information feedback on provider performance

Publications (72)

Top publication keywords:
Physicians, Primary CarePhysician Incentive PlansPrimary Health CareSalaries and Fringe BenefitsMedicareReimbursement, IncentiveEfficiency, OrganizationalHealth Care CostsHealth Maintenance OrganizationsFee-for-Service PlansHealth PolicyPreventive Health ServicesHealth Care ReformHealth Services ResearchPatient Protection and Affordable Care Act

• Incidence of Lung Cancer Among Never-Smoking Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Females.
  Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2022 DeRouen MC, Canchola AJ, Thompson CA, Jin A, Nie S, Wong C, Lichtensztajn D, Allen L, Patel MI, Daida YG, Luft HS, Shariff-Marco S, Reynolds P, Wakelee HA, Liang SY, Waitzfelder BE, Cheng I, Gomez SL
• Integrating Electronic Health Record, Cancer Registry, and Geospatial Data to Study Lung Cancer in Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Ethnic Groups.
  Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology 2021 DeRouen MC, Thompson CA, Canchola AJ, Jin A, Nie S, Wong C, Jain J, Lichtensztajn DY, Li Y, Allen L, Patel MI, Daida YG, Luft HS, Shariff-Marco S, Reynolds P, Wakelee HA, Liang SY, Waitzfelder BE, …
• Physician Work Hours and the Gender Pay Gap - Evidence from Primary Care.
  The New England journal of medicine 2020 Luft HS
• Commentary: It's more than just the price.
  Health services research 2020 Luft HS
• Smoking-Cessation Interventions After Lung Cancer Screening Guideline Change.
  American journal of preventive medicine 2020 Li J, Chung S, Martinez MC, Luft HS

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• Primary care physician practice styles and quality, cost, and productivity.
  The American journal of managed care 2020 Luft HS, Liang SY, Eaton LJ, Chung S
• Population-Based Registry Linkages to Improve Validity of Electronic Health Record-Based Cancer Research.
  Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology 2020 Thompson CA, Jin A, Luft HS, Lichtensztajn DY, Allen L, Liang SY, Schumacher BT, Gomez SL
• Validation of Prediction Models for Critical Care Outcomes Using Natural Language Processing of Electronic Health Record Data.
  JAMA network open 2018 Marafino BJ, Park M, Davies JM, Thombley R, Luft HS, Sing DC, Kazi DS, DeJong C, Boscardin WJ, Dean ML, Dudley RA
• Preventive visit among older adults with Medicare's introduction of Annual Wellness Visit: Closing gaps in underutilization.
  Preventive medicine 2018 Chung S, Romanelli RJ, Stults CD, Luft HS
• New recommendation and coverage of low-dose computed tomography for lung cancer screening: uptake has increased but is still low.
  BMC health services research 2018 Li J, Chung S, Wei EK, Luft HS
• Beyond Consent: Building Trusting Relationships With Diverse Populations in Precision Medicine Research.
  The American journal of bioethics : AJOB 2018 Kraft SA, Cho MK, Gillespie K, Halley M, Varsava N, Ormond KE, Luft HS, Wilfond BS, Soo-Jin Lee S
• Collecting Practice-level Data in a Changing Physician Office-based Ambulatory Care Environment: A Pilot Study Examining the Physician induction interview Component of the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey.
  Vital and health statistics. Series 2, Data evaluation and methods research 2017 Halley MC, Rendle KA, Gugerty B, Lau DT, Luft HS, Gillespie KA
• Is Good Enough for Our Peers Good Enough for Policy Makers?
  Health services research 2017 Luft HS
• Advancing Learning Health Systems Through Embedded Research: The 23rd Annual Conference of the Health Care Systems Research Network.
  Journal of patient-centered research and reviews 2017 Luft HS, Tai-Seale M, Greene SM
• Comment on: "Measuring the Volume-Outcome Relation for Complex Hospital Surgery".
  Applied health economics and health policy 2017 Luft HS
• Fifty Years of the Journal HSR: Informing Policy and Practice.
  Health services research 2017 Zinn J, Romano PS, DeFriese G, Shortell SM, Luft HS, Flood AB
• Five Decades of HSR-By Words and Figures.
  Health services research 2017 Luft HS
• Electronic Health Record Logs Indicate That Physicians Split Time Evenly Between Seeing Patients And Desktop Medicine.
  Health affairs (Project Hope) 2017 Tai-Seale M, Olson CW, Li J, Chan AS, Morikawa C, Durbin M, Wang W, Luft HS
• Scaling Lean in primary care: impacts on system performance.
  The American journal of managed care 2017 Hung DY, Harrison MI, Martinez MC, Luft HS
• Association Between Monetary Deposits and Weight Loss in Online Commitment Contracts.
  American journal of health promotion : AJHP 2016 Lesser LI, Thompson CA, Luft HS
• Evaluating the healthiness of chain-restaurant menu items using crowdsourcing: a new method - ERRATUM.
  Public health nutrition 2016 Lesser LI, Wu L, Matthiessen TB, Luft HS
• Evaluating the healthiness of chain-restaurant menu items using crowdsourcing: a new method.
  Public health nutrition 2016 Lesser LI, Wu L, Matthiessen TB, Luft HS
• Use of Gene Expression Profiling and Chemotherapy in Early-Stage Breast Cancer: A Study of Linked Electronic Medical Records, Cancer Registry Data, and Genomic Data Across Two Health Care Systems.
  Journal of oncology practice 2016 Afghahi A, Mathur M, Thompson CA, Mitani A, Rigdon J, Desai M, Yu PP, de Bruin MA, Seto T, Olson C, Kenkare P, Gomez SL, Das AK, Luft HS, Sledge GW, Sing AP, Kurian AW
• Effect of long-term antibiotic use on weight in adolescents with acne.
  The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy 2016 Contopoulos-Ioannidis DG, Ley C, Wang W, Ma T, Olson C, Shi X, Luft HS, Hastie T, Parsonnet J
• Policy-Oriented Research on Improved Physician Incentives for Higher Value Health Care.
  Health services research 2015 Luft HS
• Linking electronic health records to better understand breast cancer patient pathways within and between two health systems.
  EGEMS (Washington, DC) 2015 Thompson CA, Kurian AW, Luft HS
• Medicare annual preventive care visits: use increased among fee-for-service patients, but many do not participate.
  Health affairs (Project Hope) 2015 Chung S, Lesser LI, Lauderdale DS, Johns NE, Palaniappan LP, Luft HS
• Public reporting of provider performance at a crossroads in the United States: summary of current barriers and recommendations on how to move forward.
  Medical care research and review : MCRR 2014 Hussey PS, Luft HS, McNamara P
• Patients' body mass index and blood pressure over time: diagnoses, treatments, and the effects of comorbidities.
  Medical care 2014 Tai-Seale M, Wilson CJ, Stone A, Durbin M, Luft HS
• Breast cancer treatment across health care systems: linking electronic medical records and state registry data to enable outcomes research.
  Cancer 2013 Kurian AW, Mitani A, Desai M, Yu PP, Seto T, Weber SC, Olson C, Kenkare P, Gomez SL, de Bruin MA, Horst K, Belkora J, May SG, Frosch DL, Blayney DW, Luft HS, Das AK
• Commentary: Protecting human subjects and their data in multi-site research.
  Medical care 2012 Luft HS
• Standardizing primary care physician panels: is age and sex good enough?
  The American journal of managed care 2012 Chung S, Eaton LJ, Luft HS
• Enhancing Medicare's hospital-acquired conditions policy to encompass readmissions.
  Medicare & medicaid research review 2012 McNair PD, Luft HS
• Assignment, attribution, and accountability: new responsibilities and relationships in accountable care organizations.
  The virtual mentor : VM 2012 Luft HS
• Advancing public reporting through a new 'aggregator' to standardize data collection on providers' cost and quality.
  Health affairs (Project Hope) 2012 Luft HS
• From small area variations to accountable care organizations: how health services research can inform policy.
  Annual review of public health 2012 Luft HS
• "Does this doctor speak my language?" Improving the characterization of physician non-English language skills.
  Health services research 2011 Diamond LC, Luft HS, Chung S, Jacobs EA
• Health reform: avoiding the backlash.
  Journal of health politics, policy and law 2011 Luft HS
• Becoming accountable—opportunities and obstacles for ACOs.
  The New England journal of medicine 2010 Luft HS
• Data and methods to facilitate delivery system reform: harnessing collective intelligence to learn from positive deviance.
  Health services research 2010 Luft HS
• Physician cost profiling.
  The New England journal of medicine 2010 Luft HS, Eaton LJ
• The group employed model as a foundation for health care delivery reform.
  Issue brief (Commonwealth Fund) 2010 Minott J, Helms D, Luft H, Guterman S, Weil H
• Effect of physician-specific pay-for-performance incentives in a large group practice.
  The American journal of managed care 2010 Chung S, Palaniappan LP, Trujillo LM, Rubin HR, Luft HS
• Does the frequency of pay-for-performance payment matter?--Experience from a randomized trial.
  Health services research 2009 Chung S, Palaniappan L, Wong E, Rubin H, Luft H
• Translating medical effectiveness research into policy: lessons from the California Health Benefits Review Program.
  The Milbank quarterly 2009 Coffman JM, Hong MK, Aubry WM, Luft HS, Yelin E
• Medicare's policy not to pay for treating hospital-acquired conditions: the impact.
  Health affairs (Project Hope) 2009 McNair PD, Luft HS, Bindman AB
• Health care reform--toward more freedom, and responsibility, for physicians.
  The New England journal of medicine 2009 Luft HS
• Economic incentives to promote innovation in healthcare delivery.
  Clinical orthopaedics and related research 2009 Luft HS
• Peering into the black box: billing and insurance activities in a medical group.
  Health affairs (Project Hope) 2009 Sakowski JA, Kahn JG, Kronick RG, Newman JM, Luft HS
• Toward a 21st-century health care system: recommendations for health care reform.
  Annals of internal medicine 2009 Arrow K, Auerbach A, Bertko J, Brownlee S, Casalino LP, Cooper J, Crosson FJ, Enthoven A, Falcone E, Feldman RC, Fuchs VR, Garber AM, Gold MR, Goldman D, Hadfield GK, Hall MA, Horwitz RI, Hooven M, …
• Should operations be regionalized? The empirical relation between surgical volume and mortality. 1979.
  Clinical orthopaedics and related research 2007 Luft HS, Bunker JP, Enthoven AC
• Universal health care coverage: a potential hybrid solution.
  JAMA 2007 Luft HS
• What works and what doesn't work well in the US healthcare system.
  PharmacoEconomics 2006 Luft HS
• Reducing racial/ethnic disparities in female breast cancer: screening rates and stage at diagnosis.
  American journal of public health 2006 Sassi F, Luft HS, Guadagnoli E
• Clinical performance measures and medical malpractice.
  JAMA 2006 Luft HS
• New policy on disclosures at Health Services Research.
  Health services research 2006 Luft HS, Flood AB, Escarce JJ
• A comparative analysis of mandated benefit laws, 1949-2002.
  Health services research 2006 Laugesen MJ, Paul RR, Luft HS, Aubry W, Ganiats TG
• Evaluating medical effectiveness for the california health benefits review program.
  Health services research 2006 Luft HS, Rappaport KM, Yelin EH, Aubry WM
• Focusing on the dependent variable: comments on "Opportunities and challenges for measuring cost, quality, and clinical effectiveness in health care," by Paul A. Fishman, Mark C. Hornbrook, Richard T. Meenan, and Michael J. Goodman.
  Medical care research and review : MCRR 2004 Luft HS
• How health policy and health services researchers are compensated: analysis of a nationwide salary survey.
  Medical care research and review : MCRR 2004 Resneck J, Luft H
• From the Editors: Perspectives on turnaround time.
  Health services research 2004 Luft HS
• Assessing risk-adjustment approaches under non-random selection.
  Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financing 2004 Luft HS, Dudley RA
• Measuring quality in modern managed care.
  Health services research 2003 Luft HS, Dudley RA
• Special issues, special sections--special consideration?
  Health services research 2003 Luft HS
• From observing the relationship between volume and outcome to making policy recommendations: comments on Sheikh.
  Medical care 2003 Luft HS
• Tribute to John M. Eisenberg.
  Health services research 2003 Flood AB, Luft HS
• Variations in patterns of care and outcomes after acute myocardial infarction for Medicare beneficiaries in fee-for-service and HMO settings.
  Health services research 2003 Luft HS
• The best of both worlds? Potential of hybrid prospective/concurrent risk adjustment.
  Medical care 2003 Dudley RA, Medlin CA, Hammann LB, Cisternas MG, Brand R, Rennie DJ, Luft HS
• HMO plan performance update: an analysis of the literature, 1997-2001.
  Health affairs (Project Hope) 2002 Miller RH, Luft HS
• The role of perspective.
  Health services research 2002 Luft HS
• It's in the air: managed care and spillover effects.
  The American journal of medicine 2002 Luft HS
• What's behind the health expenditure trends?
  Annual review of public health 2001 Mehrotra A, Dudley RA, Luft HS