Anthony T. Lo Sasso

Anthony T. Lo Sasso, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor and Senior Research Scientist in the Division of Health Policy and Administration at the University of Illinois at Chicago's School of Public Health. He joined the IGPA faculty in August 2007.

Dr. Lo Sasso is an economist whose research spans several dimensions of health economics and health services research. He recently completed a 5-year K02 Independent Scientist Award from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality studying workplace health benefits and how they affect employee health. As part of this broad research agenda, Dr. Lo Sasso has examined the impact of an expansion of mental health benefits on cost and quality of care at a Fortune 50 manufacturing firm. More recently, he has studied the nascent consumer-driven health care movement and its potential impact on employer-sponsored health insurance and employee health.

Dr. Lo Sasso is also keenly interested in how government policies affect private sector decisions and, ultimately, health outcomes. He recently completed studies examining the impact of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program on uninsurance among children and the extent to which public coverage may have “crowded out” private coverage of children; this research was awarded the 2005 AcademyHealth Article-of-the-Year Award.

More recently Dr. Lo Sasso has become acutely interested in the health care safety and its implications for insurance coverage and health. A recently completed project funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s HCFO Initiative examined how the availability of safety net health care services affected the willingness of firms to offer health insurance and the willingness of employees to take-up health insurance when it is offered.

Dr. Lo Sasso received his doctorate in economics in 1996 from Indiana University, Bloomington.

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