Alan Sager | Profiles RNS

Alan P. Sager, PhD

Professor

Boston University School of Public Health

Dept of Health Law, Policy & Management

PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MEd, University of Miami

Websites

	School of Public Health Faculty
	Health Reform Program

ORCID : 0000-0001-8435-7709

1994-2018 Boston University School of Public Health: 15 teaching awards for 4 different courses

1988 Boston University School of Public Health: Norman A. Scotch Teaching Award

1982 Gerontological Society of America: Fellow

BU Sponsored Research

Access and Affordability Monitoring Project
01/01/2000 - 12/31/2001 (PI)
Boston Foundation, The

Direct to Consumer Advertising of Prescription Drugs on Patient Caregiver Relationships
01/01/2000 - 06/30/2001 (PI)
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Access and Affordability Monitoring Project
01/01/2000 - 12/31/2000 (PI)
New England Financial

Evidence for Health Care Equity and Cost Control
01/01/2000 - 12/31/2000 (PI)
Boston Globe Foundation

Yr	Title	Project-Sub Proj	Pubs

Publications listed below are automatically derived from MEDLINE/PubMed and other sources, which might result in incorrect or missing publications. Faculty can login to make corrections and additions.

Wilkinson GW, Sager A, Selig S, Antonelli R, Morton S, Hirsch G, Lee CR, Ortiz A, Fox D, Lupi MV, Acuff C, Wachman M. No Equity, No Triple Aim: Strategic Proposals to Advance Health Equity in a Volatile Policy Environment. Am J Public Health. 2017 Dec; 107(S3):S223-S228. PMID: 29236539.

Sager A. Favorable View of Mass. Health Costs Undone by the Data. The Boston Globe. 2016. View Publication

Sager A. Testimony on Proposed Revisions in Massachusetts Determination of Need Regulations, 105 CMR 100.000 - 100.825. Alan Sager. Boston, Mass. 2016. View Publication

Sager A. It's Time to Confront the Drug Makers. Democracy. 2016. View Publication

Sager A. Choosing a Boston University Health Insurance Plan for 2016. Health Reform Program. Boston, MA. 2015. View Publication

Sager A. Simple steps can protect, expand primary care capacity. Med Econ. 2013 Feb 10; 90(3):68, 67. PMID: 23875277.

Sager A. Hospital Closings: Causes, Consequences, and Responses. Boston Occupier. 2012. View Publication

Sager A. Paying New York State Hospitals More Fairly for Their Care to Uninsured Patients. A Report to the Commission on the Public’s Health System. New York, New York. 2011; 168 pages. View Publication

Sager A, Socolar D. Massachusetts Hospital Spending Reached 55.4 per Person above the U.S. Average in 2007: Most of Excess Is Unjustified and State's Health Reform Law Is Negligible. 2010; 211 pages. View Publication

Sager A. Why Stabilizing St. Vincent's Is Essential. The Villager. 2010; 1. View Publication

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Sager A, Socolar D. This Year’s $72 Billion in Health Spending in Massachusetts Is Enough to Finance the Care that Works: Proposals to Simply Bundle Payments to Hospitals and Doctors for Individual Episodes of Care, While Reasonable and Well-intentioned, Are Not Likely to Contain Costs. 2009. View Publication

Sager A, Socolar D. Make Doctors Agents of Health Care Cost Controls. Boston Globe op-ed. 2008; 1. View Publication

Sager A, Socolar D. Mass. Mess: Mandates Ensure Everyone Is Covered--Inadequately. 2007. View Publication

Sager A, Socolar D. Seeking a Cure for Health Care: New York State Needs to Cut Waste, Not Close Hospitals. 2007.

Sager A. Facing the long-term care crisis: lessons from Robert Morris' innovations. J Aging Soc Policy. 2007; 19(3):119-24. PMID: 17613476.

Sager A. Closing Hospitals in New York State Won't Save Money but Will Harm Access to Care. Health Reform Program. Boston. 2006; 53 pages. View Publication

Sager A, Socolar D. Massachusetts Health Sepnding Soars to $62.1 Billion in 2006: Spending Here Is World's Highest--33% per Person above U.S.A. Average, an Unprecedented Excess. 2006; 87 pages. View Publication

Sager A. Drug Cost Law Should Be Enforced. Charleston (W. Va.) Gazette. 2006; 1.

Sager A, Socolar D. Health Care for All Requires Cost Control. Health Reform Program. Boston. 2006; 74 pages. View Publication

Sager A, Socolar D. Health Care Myths and Realities. Boston Globe. 2005.

Sager A, Socolar D. "$1 Billion per Week Is Enough: Recycling the Half Health Care Spending New Wasted--Not Cutting Benefits or Rationing by Ability to Pay--Is Key to Financing High Quality Affordable Care for All,". A Report Submitted as Testimony on S. 755, An Act to Establish the Massachusetts Health Care Trust, Joint Committee on Health Care Financing, Massachusetts General Court. 2005; 72 pages. View Publication

Sager A, Socolar D. Why Are Massachusetts Health Care Costs Soaring, and Can Anything Be Done about It?. 2005. View Publication

Sager A, Socolar D. Health Crisis Index Rose 37 Percent, 1987 - 2003: High Spending Associated with Growth in Uninsured Share of Americans. Health Reform Program Data Brief No. 9. 2005; 14 pages. View Publication

Sager A, Socolar D. Shooting at the Wrong Target. Tom Paine. 2005. View Publication

Sager A, Socolar D. Health Costs Absorb One-quarter of Economic Growth, 2000 - 2005: Recent Federal Report Unintentionally Obscures Massive Rise; Physicians' Decisions Key to Controlling Cost. 2005; 56 pages. View Publication

Sager A. Report to the Princeton Health Care Task Force on the University Medical Center at Princeton's Capital Needs and Location Options. 2005; 31 pages. View Publication

Sager A. Winning Durably Affordable Innovative Drugs: A Few Lessons from the Arguments over Importing Drugs from Canada. Connecticut Journal of International Law. 2005; 20(2):257-265.

Sager A, Socolar D. Poorer, Sicker States Face Heavier Drug Cost Burdens: Rising Burdens Mean Pressure for Action Likely to Grow. Health Reform Program. Boston. 2004; 52 pages. View Publication

Sager A, Socolar D. Do Drug Makers Lose Money on Canadian Imports?. Health Reform Program. Boston. 2004; 20 pages. View Publication

Sager A, Socolar D. 61 Percent of Medicare's New Prescription Drug Subsidy Is Windfall Profit to Drug Makers. Health Reform Program. Boston. 2003; 21 pages. View Publication

Sager A, Socolar D. Huge Sums of Money Are Stolen from What We Spend to Delay Death, Treat Pain, and Overcome Disability. Newsday. 2003. View Publication

Sager A, Socolar D. Lower Prescription Drug Prices Are Vital to Both Patients and Drug Makers—But Instead, U.S. Prices Have Been Rising Rapidly Relative to Those in Other Wealthy Nations. Health Reform Program. Boston. 2003; 10 pages. View Publication

McKenna V, Sager A, Gunn J, Tormey P, Barry MA. Immunization Registries: Costs and Savings. Public Health Reports. 2003; 117:386-392. View Publication

Sager A. Rodde et al. v. Bonta et al. The Proposed Closing of Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center Endangers the Health of Disabled Medi-Cal Patients Who Reside in Los Angeles County. 2003; 41 pages. View Publication

Sager A, Socolar D, Brand R, Ford D. Rhode Island Can Afford Health Care for All: Covering Everyone Comprehensively without Spending More--A Report to the Rhode Island Legislature. 2002; 57 pages. View Publication

Sager A, Socolar D. Crashing through the Windshield: Health Care Will Consume 18 Percent of Personal Income in 2002. 2002. View Publication

Sager A. Crafting an Affordable Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit: Lessons from the Veterans Administration Experience. 2002. View Publication

McKenna VB, Sager A, Gunn JE, Tormey P, Barry MA. Immunization registries: costs and savings. Public Health Rep. 2002 Jul-Aug; 117(4):386-92.View Related Profiles.

Sager, Alan
Barry, M.

PMID: 12477921; PMCID: PMC1497442.

Sager A, Socolar D. Too Many Local Hospitals on Life Support: With Number of Beds Halved since 1980, State Should Alter Its Closings Policy. 2002. View Publication

Sager A. Minority Report to the Massachusetts Health Care Task Force. 2002. View Publication

Sager A, Socolar D. Do Rx drugs cost too much? The market needs a peace treaty. Bus Health. 1997 Oct; 15(10):51, 53. PMID: 10175196.

Sager A. What we've learned about containing health care costs. Health PAC Bull. 1993; 23(2):41-3. PMID: 10129115.

Socolar D, Sager A, Hiam P. Competing to death: California's high-risk system. J Am Health Policy. 1992 Mar-Apr; 2(2):45-50. PMID: 10117912.

Sager A, Socolar D, Hiam P. Lessons from the failure of Massachusetts' 1988 Universal Health Insurance Law. J Aging Soc Policy. 1992; 4(1-2):9-15. PMID: 10186812.

Glotzer D, Sager A, Socolar D, Weitzman M. Prior approval in the pediatric emergency room. Pediatrics. 1991 Oct; 88(4):674-80. PMID: 1896269.

Sager A. Prices of equitable access: the new Massachusetts health insurance law. Hastings Cent Rep. 1988 Jun-Jul; 18(3):21-5. PMID: 3294210.

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Bar chart showing 46 publications over 20 distinct years, with a maximum of 8 publications in 2005