Dissertation Title: "Private Markets, Public Aims: Welfare Analyses of Regulated Competition in the ACA Marketplaces"
Paper 1 explores the connection between demographic disparities and rising premiums within the ACA marketplaces, extending the (Einav...
Dissertation Title: "Data-Driven Healthcare Operations Management: The Role of Provider Market and Public Policy"
This dissertation aims to identify effective policies to improve the process and service of the U.S. healthcare delivery system. It focuses...
Dissertation Title： "Managed Care and the Changing Hospital Industry in the 1990s"
The first chapter examines the evidence for managed care plans' price bargaining with hospitals. The observed lower prices in managed care plans could be consistent with...
Dissertation Title： "Health Risk Behavior, Preferences and Policy"
This dissertation address health behavior in response to risk, and public preferences regarding risk. Health behavior is explored in two papers on the topic of child seating behavior in...
Dissertation Title： "Delivering the Right Amount of Care - Sometimes More is Less"
New technologies utilized in clinical practice offer improved tools for diagnosing and treating patients. In some cases these improvements cause unintended consequences by...
Dissertation Title： "The New Medicare Prospective Payment System for Skilled Nursing Facilities: Impacts on Payments, Services and Quality of Care"
In 1998 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) began phasing in a new prospective payment...
Dissertation Title： "Measuring Health and Assessing the Impact of Health System Change"
This thesis explores each of the steps in the process linking health system change to output: changes in access, changes in health, and the valuation of health.
The...
Dissertation Title： "Quality of Cardiac Surgical Care in Ontario, Canada"
In this dissertation, a comprehensive study was undertaken to study a number of issues related to the quality of cardiac surgical care in Ontario, Canada.
In the first paper,...
Dissertation Title： "Variation in Quality and Costs of Care across Physicians and Its Determinants"
This dissertation evaluates one of the key determinants of health care quality and costs – practice patterns of physicians. A large body of literature has...
Dissertation Title： "New Frameworks for Hospital Quality and Value Profiling"
The rapid expansion of payment models that incorporate information on individual providers' quality and efficiency of care has brought increasing scrutiny to performance...