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2023
Many Medicare Beneficiaries Do Not Fill High-Price Specialty Drug Prescriptions

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Stacie B. Dusetzina, Ph.D.

Professor of Health Policy - Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

Dr. Dusetzina is a professor of Health Policy and an Ingram professor of cancer research at Vanderbilt Univers... Read Bio


2022
Comparative Effectiveness of an Automated Text Messaging Service for Monitoring COVID-19 at Home

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M. Kit Delgado, M.D., M.S.

Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Epidemiology - University of Pennsylvania

M. Kit Delgado, M.D., M.S., is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Epidemiology at the University... Read Bio

2021
Physician Work Hours and the Gender Pay Gap — Evidence from Primary Care

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Ishani Ganguli, M.D., M.P.H.

Assistant Professor of Medicine - Harvard Medical School

Ishani Ganguli M.D., M.P.H. is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and a primary care physician at Harvard Medi... Read Bio

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Hannah Neprash, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor - University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy & Management

Hannah Neprash is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Health Policy and Management at the University of ... Read Bio

2020
Patient Safety Outcomes Under Flexible and Standard Resident Duty-Hour Rules

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David Asch, M.D.

Executive Director - Penn Medicine Center for Health Care Innovation

David Asch is Executive Director of the Penn Medicine Center for Health Care Innovation and the John Morgan Pr... Read Bio

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Jeffrey Silber, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor of Health Services Research - Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Dr. Silber is the Nancy Abramson Wolfson Professor of Health Services Research at The Children’s Hospital of P... Read Bio

2019

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Adam Sacarny, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor - Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health

Adam Sacarny, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Columbia University Mailman... Read Bio

2018

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J. Michael McWilliams, M.D., Ph.D.

Warren Alpert Foundation Professor - Harvard Medical School

Dr. McWilliams is the Warren Alpert Foundation Professor of Health Care Policy and a Professor of Medicine at ... Read Bio

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Eric T. Roberts, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management - University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health

Dr. Roberts is an Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate... Read Bio

2017

 

2016

Kevin Volpp, M.D., Ph.D. and David Asch, M.D., M.B.A.

 "Effect of Financial Incentives to Physicians, Patients, or Both on Lipid Levels: A Randomized Clinical Trial." JAMA 314.18 (2015): 1926-1935.

2015

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Benjamin Sommers, M.D., Ph.D.

Huntley Quech Professor of Health Care Economics - Harvard School of Public Health

Benjamin Sommers, M.D., Ph.D., is the Huntley Quech Professor of Health Care Economics at the Harvard School o... Read Bio

"Changes in Mortality After Massachusetts Health Care Reform." Annals of Internal Medicine, Vol. 160, No. 9, May 6, 2014, pp. 585-594. Co-authored by Sharon Long and Katherine Baicker.

2014

Tamara Konetzka, Ph.D. "Shipping Out Instead Of Shaping Up: Rehospitalization From Nursing Homes As An Unintended Effect of Public Reporting." Journal of Health Economics, Vol. 32, 2013, pp. 341-352. Co-authored by Daniel Polsky and Rachel M. Werner.

Additional Noteworthy Articles: 

2013

Zirui Song, Ph.D. The 'Alternative Quality Contract,' Based on a Global Budget, Lowered Medical Spending and Improved Quality.” Health Affairs, Vol. 31, No. 8, 2012, pp. 1885-1894. Co-authored by Dana Gelb Safran, Bruce E. Landon, Mary Beth Landrum, Yulei He, Robert E. Mechanic, Matthew P. Day, and Michael E. Chernew.

2012

Lauren Hersch Nicholas, Ph.D., M.P.P. “Regional Variation in the Association Between Advance Directives and End-of-Life Medicare Expenditures.” Journal of the American Medical Association, October, 2011. Co-authored by Kenneth M. Langa, Theodore J. Iwashyna, and David R. Weir.

Additional Noteworthy Articles:

2011

Jeffrey H. Silber, M.D., Ph.D. "Aggressive Treatment Style and Surgical Outcomes." Health Services Research, December, 2010. Co-authored by Robert Kaestner, Orit Even-Shoshan, Yanli Wang, and Laura J. Bressler.

Robert Kaestner, Ph.D. "Evidence on the Efficacy of Inpatient Spending on Medicare Patients." The Milbank Quarterly, December, 2010. Co-authored by Jeffrey H. Silber.

2010

Deborah Peikes, Ph.D., M.P.A. “Effects of Care Coordination on Hospitalization, Quality of Care, and Health Care Expenditures Among Medicare Beneficiaries.” Journal of the American Medical Association, February, 2009. Co-authored by Arnold Chen, Jennifer Schore, and Randall Brown. 

2009

Amal Trivedi, M.D., M.P.H. "Insurance Parity and the Use of Outpatient Mental Health Care Following a Psychiatric Hospitalization." Journal of the American Medical Association, December 2008. Co-authored by Shailender Swaminathan and Vincent Mor. 

2008

Ming Tai-Seale, Ph.D. "Time Allocation in Primary Care Office Visits." Health Services Research, October 2007. Co-authored by Thomas G. McGuire and Weiman Zhang.

Ming Tai-Seale, Ph.D. Two-Minute Mental Health Care for Elderly Patients: Inside Primary Care Visits." Journal of the American Geriatric Society. December 2007. Co-authored by Thomas McGuire, Christopher Colenda, David Rosen, and Mary Ann Cook.

2007

John Hsu, M.D., M.B.A., M.S.C.E. “Unintended Consequences of Caps on Medicare Drug Benefits.” New England Journal of Medicine, June 1, 2006. Co-authored by Mary Price, M.A., Jie Huang, Ph.D., Richard Brand, Ph.D., Vicki Fung, B.A., Rita Hui, Pharm.D., Bruce Fireman, M.A., Joseph P. Newhouse, Ph.D., and Joseph V. Selby, M.D., M.P.H.

2006

Richard L. Kravitz, M.D., M.S.P.H. “Influence of Patients' Requests for Direct-to-Consumer Advertised Antidepressants.” Journal of the American Medical Association, April 27, 2005. Co-autored by Ronald M. Epstein, M.D., Mitchell D. Feldman, M.D., M.Phil., Carol E. Franz, Ph.D., Rahman Azari, Ph.D., Michael S. Wilkes, M.D., Ph.D., Ladson Hinton, M.D., and Peter Franks, M.D.

2005

Anthony T. Lo Sasso, Ph.D. “The Effect of the State Children's Health Insurance Program on Health Insurance Coverage.” Journal of Health Economics, September 2004. Co-authored by Thomas Buchmueller, Ph.D., University of California, Irvine.

2004

Elizabeth A. McGlynn, Ph.D. “The Quality of Health Care Delivered to Adults in the United States,” New England Journal of Medicine, June 26, 2003. Co-authored by Steven M. Asch, M.D., M.P.H., John Adams, Ph.D., Joan Kessey, Jennifer Hicks, M.P.H., Ph.D., Alison DeCristofaro, M.P.H., and Eve A. Kerr. M.D., M.P.H.

2003

Linda H. Aiken, Ph.D., R.N., Sean P. Clarke, Ph.D., R.N., Douglas M. Stone, Ph.D., Julie Sochalski, Ph.D., R.N., Jeffrey H. Silber, M.D., Ph.D. "Hospital Nurse Staffing and Patient Mortality, Nurse Burnout, and Job Dissatisfaction." Journal of the American Medical Association, October 23/30, 2002.

2002

Darrell J. Gaskin, Ph.D. "Are Urban Safety-Net Hospitals Losing Low-Risk Medicaid Maternity Patients?Health Services Research, Vol. 36, No. 1, April 2001, Part I: 25-51.

2001

Cary P. Gross, Claudia A. Steiner, Eric B. Bass, Neil R. Powe. “Relation Between Prepublication Release of Clinical Trial Results and the Practice of Carotid Endarterectomy.” Journal of the American Medical Association. Vol. 284, No. 22, December 13, 2000: 2886-2893.

John Kralewski, Euguene C. Rich, Roger Feldman, Bryan E. Dowd, Terrace Bernhardt, Christopher Johnson, William Gold. “The Effects of Medical Group Practice and Physician Payment Methods on Costs of Care.” Health Services Research, Vol. 35, No. 2, August 2000: 591-613.

2000

Mark Schlesinger, Benjamin Druss, and Tracey Thomas. "No Exit? The Effect of Health Status on Dissatisfaction and Disenrollment from Health Plans," Health Services Research. Vol. 34, No. 2, June 1999: 547-576.

A series of three articles from the HIV Cost and Services Utilization Study (HCSUS):

1999

David Dranove and William D. White. "Medicaid-Dependent Hospitals and Their Patients: How Have They Fared?Health Services Research, Vol. 33, No. 2, Part I, June 1998: 163-185.

Pamela F. Short and Vicki A. Freedman. "Single Women and the Dynamics of Medicaid." Health Services Research, Vol. 33, No. 5, Part I, December 1998: 1309-1336.

1998

Thomas H. Rice, Ph.D. "Can Markets Give Us the Health System We Want?" Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Vol. 22, No. 2.

1997

Lawrence C. Kleinman, Howard Freeman, Judy Perlman and Lillian Gelberg. "Homing in on the Homeless: Assessing the Physical Health of Homeless Adults in Los Angeles County Using an Original Method to Obtain Physical Examination Data in a Survey." Health Services Research, December 1996, Vol. 31, No. 5, pp. 533-549.

1996

Andrew B. Bindman, Kevin Grumbach, Dennis Osmond, Miriam Komaromy, Karen Vranizan, Nicole Lurie, John Billings and Anita L. Stewart. "Preventable Hospitalizations and Access to Health Care." Journal of the American Medical Association, July 26, 1995, Vol. 274, No. 4, pp. 305-311.

1995

Katherine L. Kahn, Marjorie L. Pearson, Ellen R. Harrison, Katherine A. Desmond, William H. Rogers, Lisa V. Rubenstein, Robert H. Brook and Emmett B. Keeler. "Health Care for Black and Poor Hospitalized Medicare Patients." Journal of the American Medical Association, April 20, 1994, Vol. 271, No. 15, pp. 1169-1174.

1994

Roger D. Feldman, Bryan Dowd and Gregory Gifford. "The Effect of HMOs on Premiums in Employment-based Health Plans.Health Services Research, February 1993, Vol. 27, No. 6, pp. 779-811.

1993

Sheldon Greenfield, Eugene C. Nelson, Michael Zubkoff, Willard Manning, William Rogers, Richard L. Kravitz, Adam Keller, Alvin R. Tarlo and John E. Ware, Jr. "Variations in Resource Utilization Among Medical Specialties and Systems of Care." Journal of the American Medical Association, March 25, 1992, Vol. 267, No. 12, pp. 1624-1630.

Richard L. Kravitz, Sheldon Greenfield, William Rogers, Willard G. Manning, Jr., Michael Zubkoff, Eugene C. Nelson, Alvin R. Tarlov and John E. Ware, Jr. "Differences in the Mix of Patients Among Medical Specialties and Systems of Care." Journal of the American Medical Association, March 25, 1992, Vol. 267, No. 12, pp. 1617-1623.

1992

Stephen B. Soumerai, Dennis G. Ross-Degnan, Jerry Avorn, Thomas J. McLaughlin and Igor Choodnovskiy. "Effects of Medicaid Drug-Payment Limits on Admission to Hospitals and Nursing Homes.The New England Journal of Medicine, October 10, 1991, Vol. 323, No. ?. pp. 1072-1077.

1991

Paula Diehr, Kevin Cain, Frederick Connell and Ernest Volinn. "What is Too Much Variation? The Null Hypothesis in a Small-Area Analysis." Health Services Research, February 1990, Vol. 24, No. 6, pp. 741-771.

1990

Alan L. Hillman, Mark V. Pauly and Joseph J. Kerstein. "How Do Financial Incentives Affect Physicians’ Clinical Decisions and the Financial Performance of Health Maintenance Organizations." The New England Journal of Medicine, July 13, 1989, Vol. 321, No. 2, pp. 86-92.

Willard G. Manning, Emmett B. Keeler, Joseph P. Newhouse, Elizabeth M. Sloss and Jeffrey Wasserman. "The Taxes of Sin." Journal of the American Medical Association, March 17, 1989, Vol. 261, No. 11, pp. 1064-1069.

1989

Emmett B. Keeler, Grace M. Carter and Sally Trude. "Insurance Aspects of DRG Outlier Payments." The Journal of Health Economics, 1988, Vol. 7, pp. 193-214.

Trilogy of Articles:

  • Michael J. Barry, Albert G. Mulley, Jr., Floyd J. Fowler and John E. Wennberg. "Watchful Waiting vs. Immediate Transurethral Resection for Symptomatic Prostatism." Journal of the American Medical Association, May 27, 1988, Vol. 259, No. 20, pp. 3010-3017.
  • Floyd J. Fowler, John E. Wennberg, Robert P. Timothy, Michael J. Barry, Albert G. Mulley, Jr. and Daniel Hanley. "Symptom Status and Quality of Life Following Prostatectomy." Journal of the American Medical Association, May 17, 1988, Vol. 259, No. 20, pp. 3018-3022.
  • John E. Wennberg, Albert G. Mulley, Jr., Daniel Hanley, Robert P. Timothy, Floyd J. Fowler, Noralou P. Roos, Michael J. Barry, Klim McPherson, E. Robert Greenberg, David Soule, Thomas Bubolz, Elliott Fisher and David Malenka. "An Assessment of Prostatectomy for Benign Urinary Tract Obstruction Geographic Variations and the Evaluation of Medical Care Outcomes." Journal of the American Medical Association, May 27, 1988, Vol. 259, No. 20, pp. 3027-3030.

1988

Harold S. Luft, Sandra B. Hunt and Susan C. Maerki. "The Vol.-Outcome Relationship: Practice-Makes-Perfect or Selective-Referral Patterns?Health Services Research, 1987, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 157-182.