Recognizing the best and most relevant peer-reviewed, scientific work that the fields of health services research and health policy have produced and published in the prior calendar year.
AcademyHealth is grateful to the following journals for providing links to their award winning articles: Health Services Research, Journal of the American Medical Association and The New England Journal of Medicine.
Author degrees listed are dated to time of award.
2020
Patient Safety Outcomes Under Flexible and Standard Resident Duty-Hour Rules
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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Dr. Silber is the Nancy Abramson Wolfson Professor of Health Services Research at The Children’s Hospital of P... Read Bio
2019
Adam Sacarny, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Columbia University Mailman... Read Bio
2018
Dr. McWilliams is the Warren Alpert Foundation Professor of Health Care Policy and a Professor of Medicine at ... Read Bio
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
Benjamin Sommers, M.D., Ph.D., is a professor of health policy and economics at the Harvard School of Public H... 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:
Joanna Bisgaier and Karin V. Rhodes. "Auditing Access to Specialty Care for Children with Public Insurance." The New England Journal of Medicine. Vol. 364, No. 24, June 16, 2011: 2324-33.
Thomas C. Buchmueller, John DiNardo, and Robert G. Valletta. "The Effect of an Employer Health Insurance Mandate on Health Insurance Coverage and the Demand for Labor: Evidence from Hawaii." American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. Vol. 3, No. 4, November 2011: 25-51.
Niteesh K. Choudhry, Jerry Avorn, Robert J. Glynn, Elliott M. Antman, Sebastian Schneeweiss, Michele Toscano, Lonny Reisman, Joaquim Fernandes, Claire Spettell, Joy L. Lee, Raisa Levin, Troyen Brennan, and William H. Shrank. "Full Coverage for Preventive Medications after Myocardial Infarction." The New England Journal of Medicine. Vol. 365, No. 22, December 1, 2011: 2088-97.
Janet Currie and Reed Walker. "Traffic Congestion and Infant Health: Evidence from E-Zpass." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. Vol. 3, No. 1, January 2011: 65-90.
J. Michael McWilliams, Alan M. Zaslavsky, and Haiden A. Huskamp. "Implementation of Medicare Part D and Nondrug Medical Spending for Elderly Adults with Limited Prior Drug Coverage." Journal of the American Medical Association. Vol. 306, No. 4, July 27, 2011: 402-09.
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):
Martin Shapiro, Sally C. Morton, Damiel F. McCaffrey, J. Walton Senterfitt, John A. Fleishman, Judith F. Perlman, Leslie A. Athey, Joan W. Keesey, Dana P. Goldman, Sandra H. Berry and Samuel A. Bozzette. "Variations in the Care of HIV-Infected Adults in the United States: Results From the HIV Cost and Services Utilization Study." Journal of the American Medical Association. Vol. 281, No. 24, June 23-30, 1999: 2305-2315.
Martin F. Shapiro, Marc L. Berk, Sandra H. Berry, Carol-Ann Emmons, Leslie A. Athey, David C. Hsia, Arleen A. Leibowitz, Carl A. Maida, Marvin Marcus, Judith F. Perlman, Claudia L Schur, Mark A. Schuster, J. Walton Senterfitt and Samuel Bozzette. "National Probability Samples in Studies of Low- Prevalence Diseases. Part I: Perspectives and Lessons from the HIV Cost and Services Utilization Study." Health Services Research. Vol. 34, No. 5 part 1, December 1999: 951-965.
Martin R. Frankel, Martin F. Shapiro, Naihua Duan, Sally C. Morton, Sandra H. Berry, Julie A. Brown, M. Audrey Burnam, Susan E. Cohn, Dana P. Goldman, Daniel F. McCaffrey, Stephen M. Smith, Patricia A. St. Clair, James F. Tebow and Samuel A. Bozzette. "National Probability Samples in Studies of Low-Prevalence Diseases. Part II: Designing and Implementing the HIV Cost and Services Utilization Study Sample." Health Services Research. Vol. 34, No. 5 Part I, December 1999: 969-992.
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.