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Health care accounting, finance, and policy
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Ge Bai, PhD, CPA is a Professor of Accounting at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School and Professor of Health Policy & Management (joint) at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. An expert on health care accounting, finance, and policy, Dr. Bai has testified before the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate HELP Committee, written for the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post, and published her studies in leading academic journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, and Health Affairs. Her work has been widely featured in the media and used in government regulations and congressional testimonies. Dr. Bai has received the Johns Hopkins Alumni Association’s Excellence in Teaching Award. She was a visiting scholar at the Health Analysis Division of the Congressional Budget Office from 2022 to 2023. Dr. Bai writes regularly for Forbes: www.forbes.com/sites/gebai.
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Socal, M., Wang, Y., Plummer, P., Anderson, G. F., & Bai, G. (2023). Spending on over-the-counter prescription drugs in the Medicare Part D Program. JAMA. Forthcoming.
Bai, G., Letchuman, S., & Hyman, D. A. (2023). Do nonprofit hospitals deserve their tax exemption? The New England Journal of Medicine. 389(3), 196-197.
Bai, G., Zare, H., Eisenberg, M., Polsky, D., & Anderson, G. F. (2021). Analysis suggests government and nonprofit hospitals’ charity care is not aligned with their favorable tax treatment. Health Affairs, 40(4), 629-636.
Bai, G., & Anderson, G. F. (2017). Variation in the ratio of physician charges to Medicare payments by specialty and region. JAMA, 317(3), 315-317.
Bai, G., & Anderson, G. F. (2015). Extreme markup: The fifty US hospitals with the highest charge-to-cost ratios. Health Affairs, 34(6), 922-928.