Dissertation Title: "Essays on Payment Reform, Physician Compensation and the Clinical Workforce"
Chapter 1 studies the impact of the Medicaid Expansion on states' clinical workforce. Expansion states experienced health care and economic improvements...
Dissertation Title: "A Dose of Competition & Side Effects of Prescription Limits"Drug spending in the US continues to rise year over year due to price and volume increases for existing drugs and the launch of new brand drugs. The US health system uses...
Dissertation Title: "Decision Modeling to Inform Resource Prioritization: Methods and Applications"
This dissertation is comprised of three chapters where I investigated the following policy and methodological questions in health decision science: the...
Dissertation Title: “Essays on Healthcare Provider Markets
Chapter 1: National trends in integration between medical practices and pharmacies for self-administered drugs from 2011 to 2019
Physician practices and health systems are increasingly launching...
Dissertation Title: "Prenatal Care in the United States: Improving Quality Measurement, Access to Care, and Outcomes"
Prenatal care anchors policy and public health approaches to improving maternal and child health in the United States. However, little is...
Dissertation Title: “Assessing Value and Optimizing Decision-Making in Post-Acute Care Across Diverse Populations”
My dissertation investigates the enhancement of value in post-acute care (PAC) within the U.S. healthcare system, focusing on the largest...
Dissertation Title: "Health Systems, Quality and Variation"
Integrated health systems are becoming more important due to increasing trends toward consolidation in the midst of rapidly expanding health care reform efforts enacted by the Affordable Care...
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...
Dissertation Title： "Essays on Consumer Behavior in Health Care"
Consumer use of information and whether consumers make decisions that are in their own best interest have important implications for the quality and efficiency of the health care system. This...
Dissertation Title: "Chronic Illness and Public Health: Evaluating Influential Intersections Between Politics and Policy"
The first paper investigates the political bias of the U.S. news media in its coverage of two recent health controversies: the 2009...