Harkness Project Title: Exploring Costs and Mortality for Treatment After AMI Among Hospitals of the United States' Veteran Health Administration and Germany

Mentor: Alan Garber, M.D., Ph.D.

Placement: Center for Health Policy, Stanford University

Biography at time of Harkness Fellowship: Jonas Scheyoegg, a 2006–07 Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy has been at the Berlin University of Technology since 2001, where he is currently senior lecturer in health care management and economics in the Department of Health Care Management. Since 2004, he is also a research fellow at the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies where he focuses on comparative analysis of European health care systems especially financing issues. He is currently part of a large EU-funded project HealthBASKET which compares the benefit baskets and costs of individual health services in Europe. He is a 2002–2003 scholar of the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) and received several research awards. Schreyoegg has worked on projects with several international organizations and was a visiting fellow in Taiwan and Singapore. He has published widely in the areas of health financing, health care management, pharmaceutical regulation and economic evaluation. His current research interests focus on cost benchmarking, economic evaluation of health services and health care financing. Schreyoegg received a doctorate in economics from the Berlin University of Technology.

Career Activity Since Fellowship

• Professor of Health Care Management, University of Hamburg, 2010
• Professor for Health Services Management, Munich University, 2009
• BMBF-Award for Services Research, Berlin, 2008

Current Position: Chair for Health Care Management, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Hamburg. (Updated September 2010)

E-mail: Jonas.Schreyoegg@wiso.uni-hamburg.de

Harkness-Related Publications

Schultz C, Schreyögg J, Stargardt T, Busse R. “Editorial: Focus on designing health care structures and services for rare diseases.” Health Policy. March 2012.

Stargardt T, Schreyögg J. “A framework to evaluate the effects of small area variations in healthcare infrastructure on diagnostics and patient outcomes of rare diseases based on administrative data.” Health Policy. February 2012.

Schreyögg J, Stargardt T. "The Trade-off between Costs and Outcomes: The Case of Acute Myocardial Infarction." Health Services Research 2010, early view section.

Schreyögg J, Stargardt T, Tiemann O. "Costs and Quality of Hospitals in Different Health Care Systems: a Multilevel Approach with Propensity Score Matching." Health Economics 2010, early view section.

Schreyögg J, von Reitzenstein C. “Strategic Groups and Performance Differences Among Academic Medical Centers,” Health Care Management Review 2008. Jul-Sep; 33(3):225-33.

Schreyögg J (2008) A Micro-costing Approach to Estimating Hospital Costs for Appendectomy in a Cross-European Context. Health Economics 17: S59–S69.

 Busse R, Schreyögg J, Smith PC. “Variability in Healthcare Treatment Costs Amongst Nine EU Countries – Results From the HealthBASKET Project,” Health Economics 2008; 17: S1-S8.

Busse R, Schreyögg J and Gericke C. “Health Financing in High Income Countries,” Copenhagen: European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies 2007.

Hesse A, Schreyögg J. “Determinanten eines erfolgreichen Einweisermarketings für Krankenhäuser – eine explorative Analyse,” Gesundheitsökonomie und Qualitätsmanagement 2007; 10.

Burgdorf  F, Schreyögg  J, Keller W, von Wietersheim J, Deter HC und the German Study Group on Psychosocial Intervention in Crohn’s Disease. “Prädiktoren für die medizinische Inanspruchnahme am Beispiel von Patienten mit der Diagnose Morbus Crohn: Ergebnisse einer multizentrischen, prospektiv randomisierten Studie,” Medizinische Klinik 2007.