Dissertation Title: “Managing the Expected: Studies on Health and Organizational Science amid the COVID-19 Pandemic”
Modern organizations, especially health care delivery organizations, invest a significant amount of time and resources to prepare for...
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: “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: “Essays on resource allocation in public health care”
Governments play a massive role in financing health care, accounting for 60% of spending worldwide. Squeezed between rising costs of medical technology and aging populations, the...
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: "Pressing Challenges in U.S. Health Policy: Polarization, Gun Violence, And Discrimination"
In this dissertation, I examine three pressing challenges in health policy in the United States: political polarization, gun violence, and...
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...
Disertation Title: "Essays on Health Care Regulation"
This dissertation consists of three chapters on the regulation of health care markets.
In the first chapter, I examine one widely-touted solution for reducing health care prices -- setting prices via...
Dissertation Title: "Essays on Health and Vulnerable Populations"
This dissertation examines the impact of barriers to accessing care on the medical utilization incurred by vulnerable groups of patients.
Paper 1: This paper measures the health effects of a...
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...