Gary J. Young - D'Amore-McKim School of Business

Education

Young, G. “Federal Tax Exemption Requirements for Joint Ventures Between Nonprofit Hospital Providers and For-Profit Entities: Form Over Substance?” Annals of Health Law, 2004; 13: 327-364.
Young, G., H. Beckman and E. Baker. “Financial Incentives, Professional Values and Performance: A Study of Pay-for-Performance in a Professional Organization” Journal of Organizational Behavior, 2012; 33: 964-983.
Young, G., C. Chou, J. Alexander, S, Lee and E. Raver. “Provision of Community Benefits by Tax Exempt U.S. Hospitals” New England Journal of Medicine (Special Article), 2013; 368: 1519–1527.
The Healthcare Professional Workforce: Understanding Human Capital in a Changing Industry (Eds. Gary Young, Northeastern University; Tim Hoff, Northeastern University; Kathleen Sutcliffe, Johns Hopkins University), Oxford University Press, 2016.
Zepeda, D., G. Nyaga, and G. Young. “Supply Chain Risk Management and Hospital Inventory: Effects of System Affiliation” Journal of Operations Management, 2016; 44: 30-47.
Young, G, D. Zepeda, S. Flaherty and *N. Thai. “Hospital Employment of Physicians in Massachusetts is Associated with Inappropriate Diagnostic Imaging” Health Affairs, 2021; 40: 710 — 718.

Provision of Community Benefits by Tax-Exempt Hospitals. National Health Policy Forum. Washington, D.C., April 2013.
Hospitals in the Post-ACA Era: Impacts and Responses. New England States Consortium Systems Organization (consortium of state policy makers focusing on health policy issues), Portsmouth, New Hampshire, October 2016.
“Performance Measurement and the Limits of Provider Accountability” keynote presentation for the annual meeting of the Italian Health Economics Association, Naples Italy, September 2018.
“In Pursuit of Better Quality of Care: The U.S. Journey” Centre for Research on Health and Social Care Management, Bocconi University, March 2018.
“Promoting COVID-19 Recovery and Future Resilience in Community-Based Healthcare Delivery Systems,” US Department of Homeland Security COVID-19 Recovery Taskforce, May 2020.

Research and teaching interests include strategic management, organization behavior, health policy, health care management, and health law.

Attorney, U.S. Government (served on interagency task force investigating various issues pertaining to health care industry including antitrust, tax, and fraud and abuse. 1989 – 1991.
Senior Associate, Lewin Group, 1919 — 1993.
Chair, Department of Health Policy and Management, Boston University, 2005 — 2010.

Internal Revenue Service, Advisory Committee on Tax Exempt and Government Entities (ACT) (this is an appointment by the US Secretary of the Treasury to a congressionally mandated advisory committee to advise the IRS on policy issues. 2012 – 2015.
National Quality Forum, member of expert panel for exploring approaches to combining cost measures with clinical quality measures to improve cost-effectiveness of care. 2014.
The National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine, member of expert panel addressing the readiness of private-sector health care providers for threats to the public's health and national security. 2019.
Lown Institute Best Hospitals Metrics Advisory Committee, January 2020 – present.
U.S. Homeland Security Agency, (Federal Emergency Management Agency) Coronavirus Disease19 Region 1 Recovery Task Force (April 2020 – present).
Member of Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Health Care Quality and Effectiveness Research Study Section, 2003 — 2006.
Pharmacy Quality Alliance, member of Quality Metrics Expert Panel. 2011 – 2015.
Care Quality Commission (CQC — agency within the National Health Service of England, responsible for overseeing quality of care), advisor to the CQC on a strategic reorganization initiative, 2016.

Best Paper Award from the Health Care Management Division, Academy of Management, for paper “Patterns of Coordination and Clinical Outcomes: A Study of Surgical Services” (with M. Charns, K. Desai, J. Daley, M. Forbes and S. Khuri), sponsored by the American College of Healthcare Executives. 1997.
Co-winner of John D. Thompson Prize for Young Investigators, sponsored by the Association of University Programs in Health Administration (AUPHA). 1998.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research: to develop new theory and related research on the application of the pay-for-performance concept to the healthcare industry. 2007 — 2009.
Edgar C. Hayhow “Article of the Year” Award, American College of Healthcare Executives. For article entitled: “Impact of ACA Medicaid Expansion on Hospital Finances” (with S. Flaherty, E. Zepeda, S. Singh and S. Rosenbaum) Journal of Healthcare Management. 2020