Bonnie Blanchfield

Bonnie received a BBA in accounting from Siena College in 1981, SM in 1991 from the Harvard School of Public Health in the Department of Health Policy and Management and Sc.D. in 1995 from Harvard School of Public Health concentrating in Health Finance.

Prior to joining the Institute in 2003, Dr. Blanchfield had conducted health services research for 15 years both as an independent consultant and with the Center for Health Affairs at Project Hope analyzing the financial implications of broad policy changes on hospital financial viability, charity care, specific hospital programs, and capital investment. She also spent the prior eight years working as a CPA in a variety of settings ranging from a national accounting firm, KPMG, to a small public accountancy firm in the United Kingdom.

Dr. Blanchfield brings a pragmatic financially based approach to her research, aiming to provide objective and timely evidence to inform both current policy debates and institutional operations. Her expertise in hospital payment systems, financial analysis, business practices, and quality measurement and improvement is complemented by an array of research skills. These include case study techniques, program and policy evaluation, econometric modeling, and the use of financial data and audited financial statements for health services research.

Publications

• Thakkar, A. B., Chandrashekar, P., Wang, W. & Blanchfield, B. B. (2019). Impact of a Student-Run Clinic on Emergency Department Utilization.. Family medicine, 51, 420-423. [Online version]
• Iezzoni, L. I., Wint, A. J., Cluett, W. S., Ajayi, T., Goudreau, M., Blanchfield, B. B., Palmisano, J. & Tripodis, Y. (2018). Early experiences with the Acute Community Care Program in eastern Massachusetts.. The American journal of managed care, 24, e270-e277. [Online version]
• Bui, M., Thom, R. P., Hurwitz, S., Levy-Carrick, N. C., O'Reilly, M., Wilensky, D., Talmasov, D., Blanchfield, B. B., Vaidya, V., Kakoza, R., Klompas, M., Stanley, E., Gitlin, D. & Massaro, A. (2018). Hospital Length of Stay With a Proactive Psychiatric Consultation Model in the Medical Intensive Care Unit: A Prospective Cohort Analysis.. Psychosomatics, . [Online version]
• Blanchfield, B. B., Demehin, A. A., Cummings, C. T., Ferris, T. G. & Meyer, G. S. (2018). The Cost of Quality: An Academic Health Center's Annual Costs for Its Quality and Patient Safety Infrastructure.. Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety, . [Online version]
• Blanchfield, B. B., Acharya, B. & Mort, E. (2018). The Hidden Cost of Regulation: The Administrative Cost of Reporting Serious Reportable Events.. Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety, 44, 212-218. [Online version]
• Lee, V. S. & Blanchfield, B. B. (2018). Disentangling Health Care Billing: For Patients' Physical and Financial Health.. JAMA, 319, 661-663. [Online version]
• Levine, D. M., Ouchi, K., Blanchfield, B. B., Diamond, K., Licurse, A., Pu, C. T. & Schnipper, J. L. (2018). Hospital-Level Care at Home for Acutely Ill Adults: a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.. Journal of general internal medicine, . [Online version]
• Lin, M. P., Blanchfield, B. B., Kakoza, R. M., Vaidya, V., Price, C., Goldner, J. S., Higgins, M., Lessenich, E., Laskowski, K. & Schuur, J. D. (2017). ED-based care coordination reduces costs for frequent ED users.. The American journal of managed care, 23, 762-766. [Online version]
• Shahian, D. M., Nordberg, P., Meyer, G. S., Blanchfield, B. B., Mort, E. A., Torchiana, D. F. & Normand, S.-L. (2012). Contemporary performance of U.S. teaching and nonteaching hospitals. Academic medicine: journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, 87(6), 701-708. [Online version]
• Hacker, K., Choi, Y. S., Trebino, L., Hicks, L., Friedman, E., Blanchfield, B. B. & Gazelle, G. S. (2012). Exploring the impact of language services on utilization and clinical outcomes for diabetics. PloS one, 7(6), e38507. [Online version]
• Blanchfield, B. B., Gazelle, G. S., Khaliif, M., Arocha, I. S. & Hacker, K. (2011). A framework to identify the costs of providing language interpretation services. J Health Care Poor Underserved, 22, 523-31. [Online version]
• O'Connell, J. J., Oppenheimer, S. C., Judge, C. M., Taube, R. L., Blanchfield, B. B., Swain, S. E. & Koh, H. K. (2010). The Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program: a public health framework. Am J Public Health, 100(8), 1400-8. [Online version]
• Blanchfield, B. B., Heffernan, J. L., Osgood, B., Sheehan, R. R. & Meyer, G. S. (2010). Saving billions of dollars--and physicians' time--by streamlining billing practices. Health Aff (Millwood), 29, 1248-54. [Online version]
• Blanchfield, B. B., Grant, R. W., Estey, G. A., Chueh, H. C., Gazelle, G. S. & Meigs, J. (2006). Cost of an informatics-based diabetes management program. Int J Technol Assess Health Care, 22(2), 249-54. [Online version]