Senior Health Policy Researcher
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RAND Corporation
Justin Timbie, Ph.D., is a senior health policy researcher whose research focuses on value-based payment, health care organizational models and their effects on providers and patients, and health policy issues involving the safety net. He has over a decade of experience conducting evaluations of complex programs including evaluations of patient-centered medical home programs, global budget payment models, and reinsurance programs. Dr. Timbie’s research on health care organization and delivery includes studies of the impact of vertical integration on socioeconomic disparities in care and an ongoing study of Puerto Rico’s primary care delivery system following Hurricane Maria. He has also studied clinical integration between community health centers and other health care organizations and the effects of health system-affiliation on racial and ethnic disparities in care and the quality of care for high-need Medicare beneficiaries. Dr. Timbie received his doctoral degree in health policy from Harvard University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Veterans Affairs Health System in Ann Arbor, Michigan.