Carter Claiborne Price, PhD
Mathematician
1200 South Hayes Street
Arlington, VA 22202-5050
Phone: (703) 413-1100 x5421
price@rand.org
EDUCATION
Jan 2009:
Doctor of Philosophy in Applied Mathematics, University of Maryland-College Park
Dissertation: Applications of Operations Research Models to Problems in Health Care
Dissertation Advisor: Bruce L. Golden
May 2006:
Master of Sciences in Applied Mathematics, University of Maryland-College Park
May 2003:
Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics and Physics, Hendrix College
Cum Laude with Distinction in both majors
EMPLOYMENT
The RAND Corporation
Apr 2015—present:
Mathematician, Full
Jun 2013—Nov 2013:
Mathematician, Full
Feb 2009—Jun 2013:
Associate Mathematician
Experience includes work in several RAND divisions: RAND Health; National Security Research Division;
Arroyo Center; and Justice, Infrastructure, & Environment. Major projects include work on the
COMPARE microsimulation model to study the impact of draft health care reform legislation and the
Affordable Care Act, an assessment of a terrorism risk model for TSA, several analyses of defense budgets,
and a study of Forest Service aircraft acquisition. Project leadership includes two studies of the
macroeconomic impact of the Affordable Care Act on states and assessments of trends in the defense
budget.
The Washington Center for Equitable Growth
Aug 2014—Apr 2015:
Senior Mathematician and Associate Research Director
Nov 2013—Aug 2014:
Senior Mathematician
Built and managed Washington Center for Equitable Growth’s research team. Managed quality of research
team products. Developed new research product lines including responses to academic research and data
visualizations. Conducted original research to understand tends in economic distribution and the broader
implications for the United States’ economy. Wrote pieces targeted towards both popular and academic
audiences on a variety of issues related to economic mobility, inequality, and growth.
PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
Price, Carter C. and Christine Eibner, For States that Opt Out of Medicaid Expansion: 3.6 Million Fewer
Insured and $8.4 Billion Less in Federal Payments, Health Affairs, 32(6), June 2013
Eibner, Christine, Carter C. Price, Raffaele Vardavas, Amado Cordova, and Federico Girosi, Small Firms’
Actions in Two Areas, and Exchange Premium and Enrollment Impact, Health Affairs, 31(2),
February 2012
Anderson, David, Carter C. Price, Bruce Golden, Wolfgang Jank, and Edward Wasil, Examining the
Discharge Practices of Surgeons at a Large Medical Center, Health Care Management Science,
14(4) 2011
Price, Carter C., Bruce Golden, Michael Harrington, Ramon Konewko, Edward Wasil, and William
Herring, Reducing Boarding in a Post-Anesthesia Care Unit, POM Journal 20(3), May/June 2011
Price, Carter C., Timothy Babineau, Bruce Golden, Bartley Griffith, and Edward Wasil, Maximizing
Cardiac Surgery Throughput at a Major Hospital, Proceedings of the 2008 Spring Simulation
Multiconference
Gulczynski, Damon, Jeffery Heath, and Carter C. Price, The Close Enough Traveling Salesman Problem:
A Discussion of Several Heuristics, Perspectives in Operations Research: Papers in Honor of Saul
Gass 80th Birthday (F. Alt, M. Fu, B. Golden editors), Springer, 2006
RAND PUBLICATIONS
Arena, Mark V., John Birkler, Irv Blickstein, Charles Nemfakos, Abby Doll, Jeffrey A. Drezner, Gordon T.
Lee, Megan McKernan, Brian McInnis, Carter C. Price, Jerry M. Sollinger and Erin York,
Management Perspectives Pertaining to Root Cause Analyses of Nunn-McCurdy Breaches, Volume
6: Contractor Motivations and Anticipating Breaches, Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND Corporation,
MG-1171/6-OSD, 2014.
Price, Carter C. and Evan Saltzman, Delaying the Employer Mandate: Small Change in the Short Term,
Big Cost in the Long Run, Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND Corporation, RR-411, 2013
Price, Carter C. and Christine Eibner, The Budgetary Effects of Medicaid Expansion on Pennsylvania: An
Expansion on Previous Works, Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND Corporation, RR-256-1, 2013
Price, Carter C. and Christine Eibner, The Math of State Medicaid Expansion, Santa Monica, Calif.:
RAND Corporation, RB-9706, 2013
Price, Carter C., Julie M. Donohue, Evan Saltzman, Dulani Woods and Christine Eibner, The Economic
Impact of Medicaid Expansion on Pennsylvania, Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND Corporation, RR256-HHAP, 2013
Cordova, Amado, Carter C. Price and Evan Saltzman, A Two-Step Procedure to Estimate Participation
and Premiums in Multistate Health Plans, Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND Corporation, RR-202DHHS, 2013
Price, Carter C. and Evan Saltzman, The Economic Impact of the Affordable Care Act on Arkansas, Santa
Monica, Calif.: RAND Corporation, RR-157-ACHI, 2013
Morral, Andrew R., Carter C. Price, David S. Ortiz, Bradley Wilson, Tom LaTourrette, Blake W.
Mobley, Shawn McKay and Henry H. Willis, Modeling Terrorism Risk to the Air Transportation
System: An Independent Assessment of TSA's Risk Management Analysis Tool and Associated
Methods, Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND Corporation, MG-1241-TSA, 2012
Keating, Edward G., Andrew R. Morral, Carter C. Price, Dulani Woods, Daniel M. Norton, Christina
Panis, Evan Saltzman and Ricardo Sanchez, Air Attack Against Wildfires: Understanding U.S.
Forest Service Requirements for Large Aircraft, Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND Corporation, MG1234-USDAFS, 2012
Keating, Edward G., Andrew R. Morral, Carter C. Price, Dulani Woods, Daniel M. Norton, Christina
Panis, Evan Saltzman and Ricardo Sanchez, Identifying a Cost-Effective Aviation Fleet for the U.S.
Forest Service, Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND Corporation, RB-9676-USDAFS, 2012
Eibner, Christine and Carter C. Price, The Effect of the Affordable Care Act on Enrollment and
Premiums, With and Without the Individual Mandate, Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND Corporation,
TR-1221-CMF, 2012
Eibner, Christine and Carter C. Price, How Would Eliminating the Individual Mandate Affect Health
Coverage and Premium Costs?, Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND Corporation, RB-9646-CMF, 2012
Price, Carter C., Aaron L. Martin, Edward Wu and Christopher G. Pernin, Where Might the U.S. Army
Budget Go, and How Might It Get There?, Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND Corporation, OP-331-A,
2011
Eibner, Christine, Federico Girosi, Amalia Miller, Amado Cordova, Elizabeth A. McGlynn, Nicholas M.
Pace, Carter C. Price, Raffaele Vardavas and Carole Roan Gresenz, Employer Self-Insurance
Decisions and the Implications of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act as Modified by the
Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (ACA), Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND
Corporation, TR-971-DOL, 2011
Schank, John F., James G. Kallimani, Jess Chandler, Mark V. Arena, Carter C. Price and Clifford A.
Grammich, Changing Aircraft Carrier Procurement Schedules: Effects That a Five-Year
Procurement Cycle Would Have on Cost, Availability, and Shipyard Manpower and Workload,
Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND Corporation, MG-1073-NAVY, 2011
Eibner, Christine, Elizabeth A. McGlynn, Federico Girosi, Carter C. Price, Amado Cordova, Peter S.
Hussey and Alice Beckman, How Will the Affordable Care Act Affect Employee Health Coverage
at Small Businesses?, Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND Corporation, RB-9557, 2010
Eibner, Christine, Federico Girosi, Carter C. Price, Amado Cordova, Peter S. Hussey, Alice Beckman
and Elizabeth A. McGlynn, Establishing State Health Insurance Exchanges: Implications for Health
Insurance Enrollment, Spending, and Small Businesses, Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND Corporation,
TR-825-DOL, 2010
Eibner, Christine, Federico Girosi, Carter C. Price and Elizabeth A. McGlynn, Grandfathering in the
Small Group Market Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: Effects on Offer Rates,
Premiums, and Coverage, Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND Corporation, OP-313-DOL, 2010
McGlynn, Elizabeth A., Jeanne S. Ringel, Federico Girosi, Amado Cordova and Carter C. Price,
Coverage, Spending, and Consumer Financial Risk: How Do the Recent House and Senate Health
Care Bills Compare?, Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND Corporation, RB-9515, 2010
Ringel, Jeanne S., Federico Girosi, Amado Cordova, Carter C. Price and Elizabeth A. McGlynn, Analysis
of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (H.R. 3590), Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND
Corporation, RB-9514, 2010
McGlynn, Elizabeth A., Jeanne S. Ringel, Carter C. Price and Federico Girosi, Analysis of the Affordable
Health Care for America Act (H.R. 3962), Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND Corporation, RB-9504,
2010
Schank, John F., Christopher G. Pernin, Mark V. Arena, Carter C. Price and Susan K. Woodward,
Controlling the Cost of C4I Upgrades on Naval Ships, Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND Corporation,
MG-907-NAVY, 2009
TESTIMONY
Price, Carter C., Expanding Medicaid Is the Best Financial Option for States. Testimony submitted before
the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Subcommittee on Health June 12, 2013
PRESENTATIONS
Jan 2016:
Modeling Health Care Reform, Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM), Seattle, WA
May 2014:
The Economic Impact of Medicaid Expansion on Pennsylvania, Economic Club of
Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Sep 2013:
The Economic Impact of Medicaid Expansion on Pennsylvania, University of
Pittsburgh Institute of Politics Elected Officials Retreat, Pittsburgh, PA
Oct 2012:
Predicting Terrorism Risk for TSA Security Programs, 8th Algorithm
Development for Security Applications, Awareness and Localization of ExplosiveRelated Threats (ALERT) Northeastern University, Boston, MA
Jan 2009:
A Greedy Algorithm for Protecting Terminals from Attack, 11th Institute for
Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Computing
Society 2009 Conference, Charleston, SC
Oct 2008:
Operating Room Scheduling Heuristics to Improve Post-operative Patient Flow.
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
Annual Meeting, Washington, DC
Jun 2008:
Reducing Boarding in a Post-Anesthesia Care Unit. Manufacturing and Service
Operations Management (MSOM) 2008 Conference, College Park, MD
Apr 2008:
Maximizing Cardiac Surgery Throughput at a Major Hospital, 17th Annual
International Conference on Health Sciences Simulation (SMS), Ottawa, ON
Nov 2007:
Capacity Management in a Cardiac Surgery Line. Institute for Operations Research
and the Management Sciences Annual Meeting (INFORMS), Seattle, WA
May 2007:
Analyzing Post-operative Bed Mix at a Major Hospital, Operations Research in
Health Care (poster), Operations Research Center, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge, MA
May 2007:
Maximizing Cardiac Surgery Throughput Using a Simulation Model. 18th
Production and Operations Management Society Conference (POMS), Dallas, TX
Apr 2002:
Modeling Heat Transfer in Living Tissue, 16th National Conference for
Undergraduate Research, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Whitewater, WI
OTHER INFORMATION
Awards:
RAND Silver Medal Award 2012
National Merit Finalist
Eagle Scout