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...
Dissertation Title: "Strategic Behavior Among Provider Organizations in Risk-Sharing Contracts"
Medicare implemented population-based risk-sharing payment models that encouraged otherwise separate providers to collaborate and form Accountable Care...
Dissertation Title: "Methods for Evaluating and Improving Plan Payment Risk Adjustment and Plan Defaults in Medicare Part D"
This dissertation develops new methods for evaluating and improving risk adjustment formulas used in health plan payment and...
Dissertation Title："Measuring Health Care Quality and Value: Theory and Empirics"
Imperfect information is a pervasive feature of health care markets. Therefore, measuring the quality and value of health care services may inform efforts to improve health...
Dissertation Title: "Competition and Selection in Health Insurance Markets"
Competition in US health insurance markets is low and has declined in recent years. Insufficient competition is often assumed to increase plan premiums or decrease benefit quality...
Dissertation Title："Three Essays in Physician Behavior"
Physicians are the foundation of health care in the United States. Their decisions drive both spending and quality of care and it is their actions that will largely determine the success of efforts to...
Dissertation Title: "Quasi-Experimental Evaluations of Pediatric Health Care: Clinical Practive Guidelins and Insurance Coverage"
The underlying theme of this dissertation is the effects of clinical and federal policy on health, utilization, and...