Dennis Patrick Scanlon
Associate Professor of Health Policy and Administration
Contact Information
504U Ford Building
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802
(814) 865-1925
Research Interests
Consumer information and health care markets, health insurance and HMO plan performance, measurement of quality, and minority health outcomes.
Teaching Interests
Health Economics, Principles of Managed Care, Econometrics, Overview of the Health Care System.
Selected Publications
Scanlon, D.P. (in press). “Overcoming Barriers to Managing Health and Productivity in the Workplace.” Ronald C. Kessler and Paul D. Stang (Editors). Health and Productivity: Emerging Issues in Research & Policy. University of Chicago Press. (Principal author).
Beich, JJ, Scanlon, DP, Ulbrecht, J, Ford EW, and IA Ibrahim. (2006 – forthcoming). “The Role of Disease Management in Pay-for-Performance Programs for Improving the Care of Chronically Ill Patients.” Medical Care Research & Review.
Scanlon, D.P., Swaminathan, S, Chernew, M, Bost, J, and J Shevock. (in press, April 2005). “Health Plan Performance: Evidence from Managed Care Insurance Markets.” Medical Care.
Scanlon, D. P., Hollenbeak, C., Lee, W., Loh, E., & Ubel, P. A. (in press, March/April 2004). Does Competition for Transplantable Hearts Encourage Gaming of the Waiting List? Health Affairs.
Chernew, M., Wodchis, W., Scanlon, D. P., & McLaughlin, C. (in press, March/April 2004). Overlap in HMO Physician Networks. Health Affairs.
Frick, K., Scanlon, D. P., Bandeen-Roche, K., Kasper, J. D., Simonsick, E. M., & Sullivan, E. M. (in press). Racial similarities in influenza vaccination rates among vulnerable Medicare enrollees. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved.
Selby, J.V., Scanlon, D.P., Elston-Lafata, J., Villagra, V., Beich, J., & Salber, P.R. (2003). Determining the Value of Disease Management Programs. Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Safety, 29(19): 491-499.
Scanlon, DP, Chernew, ME, McLaughlin, CM and G Solon. 2002. The Impact of Health Plan Report Cards on Managed Care Enrollment. The Journal of Health Economics, 21(1):119-42.
Scanlon, DP, Chernew, ME, Doty, HE and DG Smith. 2001. Options for Assessing PPO Quality: Accreditation and Profiling as Accountability Strategies. Medical Care Research & Review, 58(supplement 1):70-100.
Smith, DG and DP Scanlon. 2001. Covered Lives in PPOs. Medical Care Research & Review, 58(supplement 1): 16-33.
Scanlon, DP, Darby, C, Rolph, E, and HE Doty. 2001. The Role of Performance Measures for Improving Quality in Managed Care Organizations. Health Services Research, 36(3):619-641.
Scanlon DP, Rolph, E, Darby, C. and HE Doty. 2000. Are Managed Care Plans Organizing for Quality? Medical Care Research and Review, 57(supplement 2), 9-32.
Scanlon, DP and ME Chernew. Managed Care and Performance Measurement: Implications for Insurance Markets. North Atlantic Actuarial Journal, Volume 4(2), 128-138, April 2000.
Reports
Scanlon, DP and Chernew, ME and HE Doty. April 4, 2001. A Guide for Evaluating the Impact of Value-based Purchasing Initiatives.” Technical paper commissioned for an expert meeting entitled,“Undestanding How Employers Can Be Catalysts for Quality: Insights for a Research Agenda.” Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Washington, D.C.
Scanlon, DP, Chernew, ME, Doty, HE and DG Smith. 2001. “Options for Assessing PPO Quality.” Technical paper commissioned for National PPO Conference to be held in Washington, D.C., March, 2001.
Scanlon, DP and ME Chernew. “The Relationship Between HEDIS Measures and Health Plan Enrollment”. Final Report issued to the Society of Actuaries. March 1999.
Scanlon DP, and MS Kamlet. “Assessing the Assumptions Behind Consumers' Choice of Insurance Plans: The Implications of Such Choices for Projecting Economic Impacts of Differing Approaches to Health Reform.” Report prepared for The Congress of The United States, Office of Technology Assessment, Washington, D.C., 1994.
Education
Ph.D., 1998, Health Services Organization and Policy - Economics Concentration, University of Michigan School of Public Health