Dr. B. Rick Mayes
Associate Professor of Political Science Rick Mayes is an associate professor of public policy in the University of Richmond’s Department of Political Science, and a faculty research fellow at the Petris Center on Healthcare Markets & Consumer Welfare at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 2000 and a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) postdoctoral traineeship at the U.C. Berkeley School of Public Health in 2002. In the early 1990s, he worked on Medicaid policy in the White House for George Bush, Sr., and thereafter on health care reform and Medicare policy at the AARP during the Clinton administration. He is also a graduate of the University of Richmond (B.A., 1991). Dr. Mayes is an active participant in campus life through the Sophomore Scholars-in-Residence program, and leads groups of students on public health research and community service trips in Peru.
202-M Weinstein Hall
Office: (804) 287-6404
Fax: (804) 287-6833
http://facultystaff.richmond.edu/~bmayes/
His writings have appeared in Health Affairs, the Journal of Health Law, the Journal of the History of Medicine & Allied Sciences, the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, the Journal of Health Care Law & Policy, the History of Psychiatry, the Journal of Policy History, Health Law Review, Pharmacoepidemiology & Drug Safety, Applied Health Economics & Health Policy, the Harvard Review of Psychiatry, and Health Economics, Policy & Law.
He is the author of Universal Coverage: The Elusive Quest for National Health Insurance (University of Michigan Press, 2nd edition, 2004), co-author of Medicare Prospective Payment and the Shaping of U.S. Health Care (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006) with Robert Berenson, M.D., Senior Fellow in Health Policy at the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C., and co-author of Medicating Children: ADHD and Pediatric Mental Health (Harvard University Press, in press) with fellow UR professors Catherine Bagwell and Jennifer Erkulwater.
Research:
American Government
Public Policy
Health Care Policy
Education:
NIH Postdoc., University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D., University of Virginia
B.A., University of Richmond
Selected Publications:
Books:
R. Mayes, C. Bagwell, J. Erkulwater, Medicating Children: ADHD and Pediatric Mental Health (Harvard University Press, 2009) http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/MAYMED.html
R. Mayes, R. Berenson, M.D., Urban Institute, Medicare Prospective Payment and the Shaping of U.S. Health Care (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006) http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title_pages/3463.html
R. Mayes, Universal Coverage: The Elusive Quest for National Health Insurance (University of Michigan Press, Series “Conversations in Medicine and Society,” 2004) http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=89164
Articles:
R. Mayes, C. Bagwell, J. Erkulwater, “ADHD and the Rise in Stimulant Use among Children,” Harvard Review of Psychiatry (Volume 16, No. 3, May/June 2008:151-166) http://facultystaff.richmond.edu/~bmayes/Medicating_Children_HUP_MBE.pdf (pdf)
R. Mayes, J. Erkulwater, “Medicating Kids: Pediatric Mental Health Policy and the Tipping for ADHD & Stimulants,” Journal of Policy History (Volume 20, No. 3, Summer 2008: 309-343) http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/journal_of_policy_history/v020/20.3.mayes.pdf (pdf)
R. Mayes, A. Rafalovich, “Suffer the Restless Children: The Evolution of ADHD and Pediatric Stimulant Use,” History of Psychiatry (Volume 18, No. 4, December 2007: 435-457) http://hpy.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/18/4/435 (abstract)
R. Mayes, “The Origins, Development and Passage of Medicare’s Revolutionary Prospective Payment System,” Journal of the History of Medicine & Allied Sciences (Vol. 62, No. 3, January 2007: 21-55) http://jhmas.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/62/1/21 (abstract)
R. Mayes, “The Origins of and Momentum behind ‘Pay for Performance’ Reimbursement,” Health Law Review (Vol. 15, No. 2, December 2006: 17-22) http://www.richmond.edu/~bmayes/Mayes_HealthLawReview_P4P.pdf (pdf)
R. Mayes, R. Hurley, “Pursuing Health Care Cost Containment in a Pluralistic Payer Environment,” Journal of Health Economics, Policy & Law (Vol. 1, No. 3, Summer 2006: 237-261) http://www.richmond.edu/~bmayes/pdf/RMayes_HEPL_BBA_abstract.pdf (abstract)
R. Mayes, “Medicare and America’s Health Care System in Transition: From the Death of Managed Care to the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 and Beyond,” Journal of Health Law (Vol. 38, Summer 2005: 391-422) http://www.richmond.edu/~bmayes/pdf/RMayes_MMA_JHealthLaw.pdf (pdf)
R. Mayes, A. Horwitz, “DSM-III and the Revolution in the Classification of Mental Illness,” Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences (Vol. 41, Summer 2005: 249-267) http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/110548177/ABSTRACT (abstract)
F. Bokhari, R. Mayes*, R. Scheffler, “An Analysis of the Significant Variation in Psychostimulant Use Across the U.S,” Journal of Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety (Vol. 14, 2005: 267-275)
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/109085268/ABSTRACT (abstract) * primary/contact author
R. Mayes, J. Lee, “Medicare Payment Policy and the Controversy Over Hospital Cost Shifting,” Journal of Applied Health Economics & Health Policy (Vol. 3, No. 3, 2004: 153-159) http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/adis/ahe/2004/00000003/00000003/art00006 (abstract)
R. Mayes, “Causal Chains and Cost Shifting: How Medicare’s Rescue Inadvertently Triggered the Managed Care Revolution,” Journal of Policy History (Vol. 16, No. 2, April 2004: 144-174)
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_policy_history/v016/16.2mayes.pdf (pdf)
R. Mayes, “Universal Coverage and the American Health Care System in Crisis (Again),” Journal of Health Care Law & Policy (Vol. 7, No. 2, July 2004: 242-279) http://www.richmond.edu/~bmayes/pdf/UniversalCoverage.pdf (pdf)
D. Gitterman, R. Greenwood M.D., K. Kocis M.D., R. Mayes, A. McCethan, “Did a Rising Tide Lift All Boats? The NIH Budget and the State of Pediatric Research Spending, 1998-2004,” Health Affairs (Vol. 23, 2004) http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/23/5/113 (abstract)
J. Lee, R. Berenson, R. Mayes, A. Gauthier, “Medicare Payment Policy: Does Cost Shifting Matter? Health Affairs’ “Web Exclusive” (Vol. 22, No. 6, October 2003) http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/hlthaff.w3.480v1 (abstract)
Presentations:
American Political Science Association, Annual Meeting: Chicago, IL (August 31-September 3, 2007) Panel Discussion: 25-12, Children’s Health, Education and Welfare Policies (panel organizer) * Paper: “Suffer the Restless Children: ADHD, Psychostimulants and the Politics of Pediatric Mental Health”
American Political Science Association, Annual Meeting: Philadelphia, PA (September 1-4, 2006) Panel Discussion: 25-2, Medicare, Bureaucratic Decision-Making, and the Power of Payment Policy (panel organizer) * Paper: “Policymaking for Medicare: Prospective Payment and the Shaping of U.S. Health Care”
Virginia Medical Group Management Association’s Spring Conference, The Homestead, VA (March 26-28, 2006) Keynote Presentation: “Coming to a Health Plan near You: Pay for Performance Reimbursement”
American Political Science Association Conference on Teaching & Learning, Washington, D.C. (February 18-20, 2006) Panel Discussion: Research Methods and Techniques Paper: “The ‘Tipping Point’ of Teaching Research Methods to Undergraduates”
Richmond Academy of Medicine, Richmond, VA (October 11, 2005) Presentation: “Pay for Performance Reimbursement”
American Public Health Association, Annual Meeting: Washington, D.C. (November 6-10, 2004) Panel Discussion: Urban Health Paper: “Urban Hospitals and Medicare: Who is Responsible for the Common Good in a Competitive Market?”
Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management, Annual Meeting: Atlanta, GA (October 28-30, 2004) Panel Discussion: Medicare and Disability Policy Paper: “Catch Me If You Can: Hospitals, Cost Shifting, and the Game of Medicare Payment Policy?”
“Value-Based Drug Rationing,” Health Affairs, Vol. 23 (March/April 2004): 282.
http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/reprint/23/2/282.pdf
Awards:
Research Grants and Fellowships:
$21,000 Quest grant for public health research trip with students to Peru 2008
$21,000 Quest grant for public health research trip with students to Peru 2007
$3,700 PETE Summer teaching grant (w/Catherine Bagwell) 2005
$5,000 Summer Research Fellowship, University of Richmond 2003, 2004
$7,000 GIS “Geographic Information Systems” Training Grant 2002-2003
$10,000 grant, Center for Child & Youth Policy 2001-2002 School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley
Bankard Dissertation Fellowship 1998-1999 (for field research abroad)
Academic Awards:
University of Richmond’s ”Distinguished Educator” award 2007 faculty-voted
Richmond College’s “Faculty Member of the Year” 2000, 2007 student-voted
ODK’s “Faculty Member of the Year at the University of Richmond” 2003 student-voted