Dissertation Title: "The Effects of Payment Incentives, Benefit Design, and Provider Organization on the Value of Care"
This dissertation explores how the design of payment systems and changes in the organization of providers affect the value and delivery...
Dissertation Title: "Care Delivery in Nursing Homes: The Role of Quality, Insurance, and Specialty Clinicians"
This dissertation describes three papers evaluating factors which contribute to the care and wellbeing of nursing home residents. Taken together...
Nolan M. Kavanagh is an M.D./Ph.D. student, completing his M.D. at the University of Pennsylvania and Ph.D. at Harvard University. He graduated from the University of Michigan with his B.S. in biochemistry and Spanish and his M.P.H. in health behavior and...
Dissertation title: "Health Care Variation and Its Determinants: Studies on Physician Quality, Cancer Screening, and Cardiovascular Care"
This dissertation investigates drivers of variation in health care utilization and quality, with a focus on physician...
Dissertation Title: "Understanding the Health Care Delivery System: Empirical Investigations of Insurer Site of Care Policies and Physician Competencies"
In the United States, the path from having a medical condition to receiving medical care for that...
Dissertation Title: “Health Care Quality Revealed in Hospital and Physician Behavior”
Improving the quality of care is a major objective of health care systems, yet its determinants remain poorly understood. Across three quasi-experimental studies, this...
Dissertation Title: “Optimal Matched Designs to Study Post-Acute Skilled Nursing Facility Utilization and Outcomes”
Medicare spends approximately $60 billion on post-acute care, with approximately half these expenditures being on Skilled Nursing Facility...
Dissertation Title: “Rethinking Provider Quality and Behavior: Evidence from Exemplars, Guidelines, and Teams”
Improving the quality of U.S. healthcare delivery, particularly care delivered by healthcare professionals, is a key priority in research, policy...
Dissertation Title: "Physician Preferences for Medical Innovation"
Health care spending growth challenges the budgets of governments, businesses, and families. In 2015, one in every six dollars spent in the U.S. economy was related to health care –...
Dissertation Title: "Essays on Pharmaceutical and Health Insurance Markets"
Pharmaceutical policy must balance two objectives: promoting new drug development and pricing drugs to ensure access. Though pharmaceutical innovation has made significant...