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Richard Hirth, Ph.D.
Associate Chair and Professor of Health Management and Policy
Phone: 734-936-1306 E-mail: rhirth@umich.edu
Faculty Profile

• Research interests include the role of not-for-profit providers in health care markets, health insurance, the relationship between managed care and the adoption and utilization of medical technologies, long-term care, and the economics of end-stage renal disease care.
• Associate Director or the Kidney Epidemiology and Cost Center at the University of Michigan, and also a professor in the Department of Internal Medicine.
• Has received numerous awards for research in health economics.

Other topics for Richard Hirth

• Affordable Care Act
• End-stage renal disease
• Health care economics
• Health care plans
• Health care reform
• Health insurance
• Health policy
• Kidney disease
• Long-term care
• Medicare
• Nursing homes
• Policy and regulation