Gary
Young
Director of Center for Health Policy and Healthcare Research, Professor of Strategic Management and Healthcare Systems
Gary Young in the Press
Battle over cancer clinicians: Brigham plans to dismiss Dana-Farber staff, but offers them jobs
“This is the kind of dynamic that leads to a medical arms race,” said Gary J. Young, a professor of strategic management and health care systems at Northeastern University. “Each one is competing furiously to cement their position as a leading cancer center. That will require big investment.”
NBC News
New year, new health benefits? Here’s how to keep your out-of-pocket costs down.
The good news is that you won’t need to relearn the basics if your plan is changing in 2025. The bad news is that the risk of unexpected bills remains, in part because the fine print for most policies “can get very complicated,” said Gary Young, director of the Center for Health Policy and Healthcare […]
Hospitals face rough waters from high costs
In particular, labor costs are still very high in some regions, Gary Young, a health policy professor at Northeastern University, told Axios. “Recruiting a nurse can be incredibly expensive on the West Coast and other parts of the country. There’s still margin pressure,” he said.
With unvaccinated patients filling most hospital beds, should they pay more for health insurance?
Gary Young, J.D., Ph.D., Director of Northeastern University’s Center for Health Policy and Healthcare Research, said adopting this kind of policy could be a tricky path to follow from a legal standpoint.
Healthcare workers urge Americans to ‘scale back’ Thanksgiving gatherings
Gary Young, an expert in health policy at Northeastern University, said hospitals are already facing staffing shortages and extreme financial pressures from the pandemic, evidenced by hospital closures and layoffs at a time of unprecedented demand. “There are still many hospitals, particularly in rural areas, that are going to be overwhelmed,” said Young. “The preparation […]
Trump Team Hits Brakes On Law That Would Curb Unneeded Medicare CT Scans, MRIs
“These delays mean that many more inappropriate imaging procedures will be performed, wasting financial resources and subjecting patients to services they do not need,” says Gary Young, director of the Northeastern University Center for Health Policy and Healthcare Research in Boston.
NBC News
Hospitals made $21B on Wall Street last year, but are patients seeing those profits?
“There are some hospital systems that are fairly profitable, but many are not,” said Gary Young, director of center for health policy and healthcare research at Northeastern University. “A general principle is that about one-third have margins that are above zero… probably about one-third of hospitals are pretty close to zero, particularly when you talk […]
The Times UK
Will Amazon be good for America’s health?
Gary Young, director of the health policy centre at Northeastern University, said: “Don’t discount Amazon’s ambition. Amazon has a certain way of looking at the world and a certain way of engaging consumers. They believe very firmly that they can do things better.”
Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, JPMorgan Chase to tackle employee health care costs, delivery
These three “iconic” companies collaborating will attract “a lot of attention and it already has,” said Gary Young, director of the Center for Health Policy and Healthcare Research at Northeastern University. “It signals a certain frustration with the status quo and the existing health care system,” he said.
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
Minnesota hospitals’ spending on community health at risk
A study in the journal Health Affairs this month found that hospitals with higher charity care amounts tend to spend less on community health programs. So an increase in uninsured patients might create “financial pressures” for hospitals to spend even less on them, said Gary Young, the study’s lead author and a health policy researcher […]
