Dr. Shuli Brammli-Greenberg

Shuli Brammli

Senior Research Scholar (Health Team)

Health Policy

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Health Policy

Risk adjustment as a mechanism to refine procedure-based payments to hospitals
Dr. Shuli Brammli-Greenberg, Sharvit Fialco
2024

The objective of this study was to develop a compensation mechanism based on the existing mechanism that includes ex-ante risk adjustment methods that adjusts hospitals’ prices by case-complexity.  Such a mechanism is expected to promote more precise accounting regarding the current situation between the health-plans and hospitals, reduce the incentive to cream-skim non-complex patients versus more complex patients, and lead to improved efficiency of the system.

Health Policy

Attitudes and Perceptions of Selected Population Groups Regarding the Health System and the Use of Its Services: Secondary Analysis of the Population Survey on the Level of Service and Healthcare System Performance in 2018
Sharvit Fialco, Dr. Shuli Brammli-Greenberg
2022

The objectives of this study are toIdentify differences between Jews born in Israel along with veteran immigrants, Arabs and post-1990 immigrants in various aspects related to the health system: patterns of using health services; foregoing health services; having voluntary insurances and seeking services outside the public system; satisfaction with the health plans and health system; and trust in the health system.

Health Policy

Waiting Times for Community-Based Specialty Care from the Patients’ Perspective
Dr. Shuli Brammli-Greenberg, Elinore Avni, Rina Maoz Breuer, Irit Elroy, Osnat Luxenburg, Rachel Wilf-Miron, Arnona Ziv
2021

The goals of this study are: Goals 1. To examine the perceptions of health plan members regarding waiting times for community-based specialty care and the experience of members from their own perspective. 2. To characterize the conduct of health plan members and the factors influencing them when making an appointment for specialty care. 3. To understand the dynamics of arranging a visit to a specialist physician and to identify barriers to appointment setting with the aim of shortening waiting times.

Health Policy

Sharing Israel’s Strategies during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Dr. Ruth Waitzberg, Dr. Shuli Brammli-Greenberg, Nadav Penn
2020

The goals of the study were to learn the main characteristics of AO work, to examine their perceptions and perceived needs, and to provide policymakers with the tools to understand the AO role for its continued development

Health Policy

Public Opinion on the Level of Services and Performance of the Healthcare System in 2016
Dr. Shuli Brammli-Greenberg, Dr. Tamar Artom, Ira Yaari, Alexey Belinsky
2019

Citing suggestion: Brammli-Greenberg, S., Medina-Artom, T., Belinsky, A., & Yaari, I. (2019). Public Opinion on the Level of Services and Performance of the Healthcare System in 2016. RR-790-19. Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute. (Hebrew)

Health Policy

Why and how did Israel adopt activity-based hospital payment? The Procedure-Related Group incremental reform
Dr. Shuli Brammli-Greenberg, Dr. Ruth Waitzberg, Vadim Perman, Ronni Gamzu
2016

Since 2002, Israel has been adopting "Procedure-Related Group" (PRG) as hospital payments. It also set consistent costing and pricing mechanisms. One objective was to improve regulators’ capacity to set policy, supervise and control. Regulators, purchasers and providers were involved in the designing the reform. PRGs are a simple alternative to DRGs when no sufficient data is available.

Health Policy

Public Opinion on the Level of Service and Performance of the Healthcare System in 2014 and Comparison with 2012
Dr. Shuli Brammli-Greenberg, Dr. Tamar Artom
2015

Since the National Health Insurance Law came into effect in 1995, MJB has conducted a series of biennial surveys to monitor public opinion about the level of services and the performance of the health system. The project was launched at the request of the Ministry of Health and is accompanied by a steering committee that […]

Health Policy

Low-Budget Policy Tool to Empower Israeli Insureds to Demand their Rights in the Healthcare System
Dr. Shuli Brammli-Greenberg, Dr. Ruth Waitzberg, Dr. Tamar Artom, Ariella Adijes-Toren
2014

Since 1995 universal healthcare coverage has been provided in Israel through National Health Insurance (NHI). Although the country has lower rates of health spending than most OECD countries, the NHI Law stipulates that a broad benefits package will be provided by four competing Health Plans (HPs). These third-party payers manage healthcare utilization and cost through […]

Health Policy

Private Long-Term Care Insurance in Israel
Dr. Shuli Brammli-Greenberg, Dr. Ruth Waitzberg, Revital Gross
2012

The current study examines the private LTCI market in Israel and analyzes the factors affecting ownership of LTCI policies.

Health Policy

Public Opinion on the Level of Service and Performance of the Healthcare System in 2009 and in Comparison with Previous Years
Dr. Shuli Brammli-Greenberg, Revital Gross, Yifat Yair, Eyal Akiva
2011

The Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute conducts a biennial survey of the level and performance of health-care services from the perspective of service consumers. This study provides ongoing information to assist health-plan managers and policymakers in following up on key performance measures for health services.

Health Policy

Supplemental Insurance Plans: Developments in the Service Packages a Decade after Implementation of the National Health Insurance Law
Dr. Shuli Brammli-Greenberg, Revital Gross
2011

Requested by the Knesset Research and Information Center

Arab Population

Health Policy

Public Opinion on the Level of Service and Performance of the Health-Care System in 2007 and in Comparison with Previous Years
Dr. Shuli Brammli-Greenberg, Dr. Ruth Waitzberg, Revital Gross
2009

This is the seventh in the series of the Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute biennial survey of the level and performance of health-care services from the perspective of service consumers. This report presents an in-depth analysis of the findings, comparing health plans as well as different population groups.

Disabilities

Health Policy

Mental Distress and Patterns of Getting Help Prior to the Transfer of Responsibility for Mental Health to the Health Plans: A Service Consumers’ Perspective
Dr. Shuli Brammli-Greenberg, Prof. Bruce Rosen, Dr. Ruth Waitzberg, Revital Gross, Nurit Nirel
2009

In light of the planned reform of mental-health services, including transferring service provision to the health plans, the Institute added a section on mental health to its periodic survey of the public opinion on health-care services.

Health Policy

Supplemental Insurance Plans Offered by the Health Plans – Analysis and Comparison of Baskets of Services in 2006
Dr. Shuli Brammli-Greenberg, Revital Gross, Ronit Matzliach
2007

The Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute was asked by the Knesset Research and Information Center to examine the supplemental insurance plans offered by the health plans in Israel in 2006 and the changes that have been made to them over the course of time.

Health Policy

Public Opinion on the Level of Service and Performance of the Health Care System Ten Years after the Introduction of National Health Insurance
Dr. Shuli Brammli-Greenberg, Revital Gross, Ronit Matzliach
2007

Since the implementation of the National Health Insurance law, the Institute has studied the performance of the health care system from the consumers' point of view. The report presents the findings of the 2005 survey.

Health Policy

Co-Payments for Physician Visits: How Large Is the Burden and Who Bears the Brunt?
Dr. Shuli Brammli-Greenberg, Prof. Bruce Rosen, Revital Gross
2006

This report examines how the co-payments have influenced household outlays, health plan revenues, care-seeking behavior, and physician visit rates.

Arab Population

Health Policy

Public Opinion on the Level of Service and Performance of the Health System in 2003, in Comparison to Previous Years
Dr. Shuli Brammli-Greenberg, Revital Gross
2005

This report examines the functioning of the health system over time from the consumer's perspective, and according to consumers' reports.

Arab Population

Health Policy

Public Opinion of the Level of Service and Performance of the Health System in 2001, Compared to Previous Years
Dr. Shuli Brammli-Greenberg, R. Gross
2003

This report examines the functioning of the health system over time from the consumer's perspective, and according to consumers' reports.

Health Policy

Households, Health Plans, and Expenditures for Medication
Dr. Shuli Brammli-Greenberg, Prof. Bruce Rosen, Francis Wood
2003

This report offers a valuable opportunity to present policymakers and senior health officials with a broad picture of household and health plan expenditure on medications, and raises a number of policy issues that deserve attention.

Health Policy

The Private Health Insurance Market in Israel, 2001
Dr. Shuli Brammli-Greenberg, Revital Gross
2003

The study integrated insurance theory and empirical findings to analyze the actual private health insurance market in light of questions arising from the theory.

Journal Articles

Brammli-Greenberg, S., Fialco, S., Shtauber, N., & Weiss, Y. (2022). Sex differences in care complexity and cost of cardiac-related procedures as a basis for improving hospital payments systems. The European Journal of Health Economics. doi.org/10.1007/s10198-022-01496-0

Brammli-Greenberg, S., Yaari, I., Daniels, E., & Adijes-Toren, A. (2021). How Managed Entry Agreements can improve allocation in the public health system: a mechanism design approach. The European Journal of Health Economics, 1-11. doi.org/10.1007/s10198-021-01284-2

Greenberg, S.B., Dotan, E., & Arazi, R. (2020). The insurability of innovative pharmaceutical cancer technologies. Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 9, 69. doi.org/10.1186/s13584-020-00426-w

Waitzberg, R., Davidovitch, N., Leibner, G., Penn, N., & Brammli-Greenberg, S. (2020). Israel’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic: tailoring measures for vulnerable cultural minority populations. International Journal for  Equity in Health,  19(1), 1-5. doi.org/10.1186/s12939-020-01191-7

Brammli-Greenberg, S., Glazer, J., & Waitzberg, R. (2019). Modest risk-sharing significantly reduces health plans’ incentives for service distortion. The European Journal of Health Economics,  1-16. doi.org/10.1007/s10198-019-01102-w

Waitzberg, R., Quentin, W., Daniels, E., Perman, V., Brammli-Greenberg, S., Busse, R., & Greenberg, D. (2019). The 2010 expansion of activity-based hospital payment in israel: An evaluation of effects at the ward level. BMC Health Services Research, 19(1), 292. doi.org/10.1186/s12913-019-4083-4

Brammli-Greenberg, S., Glazer, J., & Shapiro, E. (2018). The inverse U-shaped Religion–Health connection among Israeli Jews. Journal of Religion and Health, 57(2), 738-750.

Gil, Z., & Brammli-Greenberg, S. (2018). An algorithm for improving hospital performance measures: A department-centered approach. Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal, 9(4), e0028. doi:10.5041/RMMJ.10352

Haimi, M., Brammli-Greenberg, S., Waisman, Y., & Baron-Epel, O. (2018). Physicians’ experiences, attitudes and challenges in a pediatric telemedicine service. Pediatric Research, 84(5), 650-656.

Brammli-Greenberg, S., Waitzberg, R., Perman, V., & Gamzu, R. (2016). Why and how did Israel adopt activity-based hospital payment? The procedure-related group incremental reform. Health Policy 120(10), 1171-1176. doi:S0168-8510(16)30213-5

Brammli-Greenberg, S., Waitzberg, R., Medina-Artom, T., & Adijes-Toren, A. (2014). Low-budget policy tool to empower Israeli insureds to demand their rights in the healthcare system. Health Policy, 118(3), 279-284.

Gross, R., Brammli-Greenberg, S., Rabinowitz, J., Gordon, B., & Afek, A. (2011). Disparities in obesity temporal trends of Israeli adolescents by ethnic origin. International Journal of Pediatric Obesity, 6(sup3), 154.

Rosen, B., Brammli-Greenberg, S., Gross, R., & Feldman, R. (2011). When co-payments for physician visits can affect supply as well as demand: Findings from a natural experiment in Israel’s national health insurance system. International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 26(2), e37. doi:10.1002/hpm.1039

Zwanziger, J., & Brammli-Greenberg, S. (2011). Strong government influence over the Israeli health care system has led to low rates of spending growth. Health Affairs, 30(9), 1779-1785.

Bin-Nun, G., & Brammli-Greenberg, S. (2009). Economic aspects of the insurance reform in mental health. Psychiatry, 12, 14-19.

Gross, R., Brammli-Greenberg, S., Gordon, B., Rabinowitz, J., & Afek, A. (2009). Population-based trends in male adolescent obesity in Israel 1967–2003. Journal of Adolescent Health, 44(2), 195-198.

Rosen, B., Nirel, N., Gross, R., & Brammli-Greenberg, S. (2009). The Israeli mental health insurance reform: A framework for a systematic and coordinated evaluation effort. Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics, 12, S37.

Gross, R., Brammli-Greenberg, S., & Rosen Bruce. (2007). Co-payments: The implications for service accessibility and equity. Law and Business, 6, 197-224.

Gross, R., Tabenkin, H., & Brammli-Greenberg, S. (2007). Factors affecting primary care physicians’ perceptions of health system reform in Israel: Professional autonomy versus organizational affiliation. Social Science and Medicine, 64(7), 1450-1462. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2006.11.012

Gross, R., Tabenkin, H., Brammli-Greenberg, S., & Benbassat, J. (2007). The association between inquiry about emotional distress and women’s satisfaction with their family physician: Findings from a national survey. Women and Health, 45(1), 51-67. doi:10.1300/J013v45n01_04

Gross, R., Brammli-Greenberg, S., Tabenkin, H., & Benbassat, J. (2007). Primary care physicians’ discussion of emotional distress and patient satisfaction. The International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine, 37(3), 331-345.

Gross, R., Tabenkin, H., Schoen, C., Brammli-Greenberg, S., & Simantov, E. (2006). Health counseling for women in the absence of financial barriers: Comparing reported counseling rates of women in the United States and Israel. Women & Health, 43(1), 1-18.

Gross, R., & Brammli-Greenberg, S. (2004). Evaluating the effect of regulatory prohibitions against risk selection by health status on supplemental insurance ownership in Israel. Social Science & Medicine, 58(9), 1609-1622.

Bentur, N., Gross, R., & Brammli-Greenberg, S. (2004). Satisfaction with and access to community care of the chronically ill in Israel’s health system. Health Policy, 67(2), 129-136.

Gross, R., Brammli-Greenberg, S., & Bentur, N. (2003). Women caring for disabled parents and other relatives: Implications for social workers in the health services. Social Work in Health Care, 37(4), 19-37. doi:10.1300/J010v37n04_02

Schoen, C., Simantov, E., Gross, R., Brammli, S., & Leiman, J. (2003). Disparities in women’s health and health care experiences in the United States and Israel: Findings from 1998 national women’s health surveys. Women & Health, 37(1), 49-70.

Gross, R., Brammli-Greenberg, S., & Remennick, L. (2001). Self-rated health status and health care utilization among immigrant and non-immigrant Israeli Jewish women. Women & Health, 34(3), 53-69.

Gross, R., Tabenkin, H., & Brammli-Greenberg, S. (2001). Gatekeeping: A challenge in the management of primary care physicians. Journal of Management in Medicine, 15(4), 283-302.

Tabenkin, H., Gross, R., Brammli-Greenberg, S., & Steinmetz, D. (2001). Primary care physicians in Israel: Self-perception of their role in the healthcare system and policy makers’ and patients’ perception of them as gatekeepers. The Israel Medical Association Journal, 3(12), 893-897.

Gross, R., Tabenkin, H., & Brammli-Greenberg, S. (2000). What do primary care physicians think of Israel’s health policy reform? Harefuah, 139(1-2), 1-8.

Gross, R., Tabenkin, H., & Brammli-Greenberg, S. (2000). Who needs a gatekeeper? Patients’ views of the role of the primary care physician. Family Practice, 17(3), 222-229.

Gross, R., Tabenkin, H., Brammli-Greenberg, S., & Schwartzman, P. (1998). Patients’ opinions of the role of the primary care physician: Implications for the organization of health services. Harefuah, 134(2), 81-88.

Tabenkin, H., Gross, R., Brammli, S., & Shvartzman, P. (1998). Patients’ views of direct access to specialists: An Israeli experience. The Israel Medical Association, 279(24), 1943-1948.

Book Chapters

Bramli-Greenberg, S., & Waitzberg, R. (2020). Integrating public and private insurance in the Israeli health system: an attempt to reconcile conflicting values. In S. Thomson, A. Sagan, &  E. Mossialos (Eds.), Private Health Insurance: History, Politics and Performance,  European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, (pp. 264-303). Cambridge University Press. doi.org/10.1017/9781139026468

Brammli-Greenberg, S., Glazer, J., & Shmueli, A. (2018). Regulated competition and health plan payment under the national health insurance law in Israel—The unfinished story. In T. McGuire, & R. V. Kleef (Eds.), Risk adjustment, risk sharing and premium regulation in health insurance markets (pp. 365-395). Amsterdam: Elsevier Publishing.

Brammli-Greenberg, S., Waitzberg, R., Perman, V., & Gamzu, R. (2016). How Israel reimburses hospitals based on activity: The procedure-related group (PRG) incremental reform. In OECD (Ed.), Better ways to pay for health care. Paris: OECD Publishing.