Hugh Long
professor

Department(s):
Health Systems Management

Email:
hwlong@tulane.edu

Research Interests:
Medicare/Medicaid policy and payment mechanisms; health care financing; health care provider financial management

Professional Achievements:
1962 Phi Beta Kappa
1962 Distinguished Military Graduate, Army ROTC
1963 Army Commendation Medal
1964 Army Commendation Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster
1965-1967 Sloan Foundation Fellowship
1975 Howard W. Wissner Award for Excellence in Teaching
1975-1979 annually, Tulane Business Society Teacher Honor Roll
1982 Tulane Business Society Teacher Honor Roll
1983 Best article, Healthcare Financial Management
1984 Tulane Business Society Teacher Honor Roll
1985 American College of Physician Executives, Honorary Member
1985 17th Annual Harold Cummins Lecturer, Tulane Medical Center
1987 Tulane Business Society Teacher Honor Roll
1989 American Jurisprudence Award
1991 Juris Doctorate, Cum Laude
1993 Order of the Coif
1995, 1996 Best Faculty Member, Executive Master of Health Administration Program
2003 Champion of Public Health Award, Dept. of Health Systems Management
2004, 2005 Best faculty member, Taiwan Master of Medical Management Program
2006 Delta Omega

Educational Background:
JD, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana
PhD, Stanford University, Stanford, California
MBA, Stanford University, Stanford, California
BA, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

Publications:
Long, H. Abandonment value and capital budgeting: comment (w/Edward A. Dyl). J of Finance 1969; 24(1):88-95.

Long H. Medicare reimbursement is federal taxation of tax exempt providers (w/J. B. Silvers). Health Care Management Review 1976; 1(1):9-23.

Long H. Valuation as a criterion in not for profit decision making. Health Care Management Review 1976; 1(3): 34-46.

Long H. Incorporating the capital asset pricing model into the basic finance course (w/Kenneth J. Boudreaux). J of Financial Ed 1976; 5:15-20.

Long H. The weighted average cost of capital as a cutoff rate (w/Kenneth J. Boudreaux). Financial Management 1979; 8(2):7-14.

Long H. Investment decision making in the health care industry: the future. Health Services Research 1979; 14(3): 183-205.

Long H. Preserving capital: asset choice and program selection in a competitive environment (part 1). Healthcare Financial Management 1982; 36(7): 40-54.

Long H. Preserving capital: asset choice and program selection in a competitive environment (part 2). Healthcare Financial Management 1982; 36(8): 34-50.

Long H. The future of financing decisions in the health care industry. Chapter 2 in Health Care Financial Management in the 1980s: time of transition, J. B. Silvers, William N. Zelman, and Charles N. Kahn, III (eds.). Ann Arbor, Michigan: AUPHA Press, 1983.

Long H. A primer on management for rehabilitation medicine accounting and finance basics. Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 1987; 1(2):227-246.

Long H. Cost/quality relationships: a generic model for health care (w/Robert B. Klint). Chapter 12 in New leadership in health care management: the physician executive. Wesley Curry, ed. Tampa, Florida: American Academy of Medical Directors, 1988.

Long H. Toward a definition of quality (w/Robert B. Klint). Physician Executive 1989; 15(5):7-11.

Personal Statement:
Dr. Long is a tenured full professor of Health Systems Management in Tulane University's School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine in New Orleans. He holds additional appointments at Tulane's School of Law and its Freeman School of Business. His teaching covers healthcare fiscal management and payment systems in the MHA and MMM degree programs, and healthcare law and regulation in the JD program. Dr. Long has also taught at the Ohio State University, San Jose State University, Stanford University, and at the Yale School of Management.

He holds a BA degree cum laude in mathematics from the Ohio State University where he became a member of Phi Beta Kappa. His MBA and PhD degrees in business administration and finance were earned from Stanford University where he was a Sloan fellow. He received his JD degree cum laude from Tulane University, where he was inducted into the Order of the Coif, the law honor society. He has been admitted to the Louisiana State Bar since 1992.

Since 1972, he has written over sixty papers in the areas of corporate finance and health care management and policy, teaches frequently in educational programs sponsored by national associations, and is the founder and faculty director of Tulane’s Master of Medical Management degree program for physicians the first MMM program in the United States. He has co-authored a corporate finance text published by Prentice-Hall, and specializes in applying corporate finance concepts and techniques to health care settings, particularly the financing of, and the allocation of resources for, patient care.

During the 1980s, Dr. Long served as a special advisor on health policy to former Representative W. Henson Moore, and former Senator David Durenberger. He has been an ad hoc advisor on health care financing to the Health Subcommittees of the Committee on Ways and Means of the U.S. House of Representatives, and the Committee on Finance of the U.S. Senate. He has also testified before these Committees on health financing policy, and from 1995 to 2000 served as a ProPAC Commissioner and a MedPAC Commissioner providing policy advice on Medicare to the United States Congress.

From 1990 to 2002, Dr. Long served four three-year terms under three U.S. Presidents on the Medicare Geographic Classification Review Board which reviews and modifies the geographic status of hospitals for Medicare payment purposes. He was the Chairman of that Board from 1996 to 2002.

Dr. Long is an active consultant, and is frequently retained as an economic expert in a wide variety of civil cases arising in the health care sector, analyzing and forecasting economic consequences in corporate contract disputes, administrative law adjudications, antitrust cases, and various class actions. In personal injury cases he forecasts the value of future lost wages and medical costs. His expert work is split evenly between plaintiffs and defendants. He served as an economic and Medicaid expert in the “Attorneys General” tobacco litigation in the states of Mississippi and Florida.

Dr. Long also serves as the President of the Board of Trustees of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, a position he has held since 2001.

Contact Information:
1440 Canal Street
Suite 1929
New Orleans, LA 70112
Phone: 504.988.2438
Fax: 504.988.3783
hwlong@tulane.edu

Level of Instruction:
graduate