Health Policy & Economics

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The Division of Health Policy and Economics studies the U.S. healthcare system with the goal of making discoveries and recommendations for improvement.  We study the effects of public and private policies on provider organizations and the value of care delivered.  We focus on incentives, unintended consequences, and the impact of policies and organizational processes on socioeconomic and racial/ethnic disparities.  Our current areas of investigation are broad and include telehealth, private equity, physician management companies, horizontal and vertical consolidation of provider organizations, physician burnout and professionalism, physician turnover, the use of artificial intelligence in medical care, MIPS, alternative payment models, biosimilars, advance care planning, mental health and substance use disorder care, socioeconomic determinants of health, Medicaid, and the healthcare safety net.

Affiliated Education Program

Health Policy and Economics Master's Track

Current Research Highlights

Analysis of Prescriptions Dispensed After Death and Associated Medicare Spending Following Reimbursement Policy Changes in Medicare

May 25, 2023

A prescription drug event (PDE) edit was enacted in July 2017 that reduced reimbursement of Part D–covered medications from 32 to 14 days after the deaths of community-dwelling Medicare beneficiaries whose prescriptions were dispensed by community or retail pharmacy services. These reimbursements to decedents may be evidence of...

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Physician Management Companies and Neonatology Prices, Utilization, and Clinical Outcomes

March 21, 2023

Over the past decade, physician management companies (PMCs) have increasingly acquired physician practices and contracted with hospitals to provide physician management services. PMCs are for-profit companies that may be supported by private equity investments. While PMCs have become...

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Faculty & Staff

Mohamed Al-Thani
Mohamed Al-Thani , MB, BCh
  • Associate Professor of Clinical Population Health Sciences (Courtesy)
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Yuhua Bao , PhD
  • Professor of Population Health Sciences
  • Associate Professor of Healthcare Policy and Research in Psychiatry
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Alexandra Bennett , MPH
  • Senior Research Program Manager
Howard Berliner
  • Adjunct professor of population health sciences
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Tara Fernando Bishop
Tara Fernando Bishop , MD, MPH
  • Clinical Associate Professor of Population Health Sciences
  • Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine
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Amelia Bond
Amelia Bond , PhD
  • Assistant Professor of Population Health Sciences
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Robert Tyler Braun , PhD, MS
  • Assistant Professor of Population Health Sciences
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Gregory Burke , MPA
  • Lecturer in Population Health Sciences
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Paul Casale
Paul Casale , MD, MPH
  • Professor of Clinical Population Health Sciences
  • Professor of Clinical Medicine
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Lawrence P. Casalino, M.D., Ph.D., MPH
Lawrence Peter Casalino , MD, PhD, MPH
  • Professor Emeritus of Population Health Sciences
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Sohaila Omer Cheema
Sohaila Omer Cheema , MPH, MB
  • Associate Professor of Clinical Population Health Sciences
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Yasin Civelek , PhD, MS, MA
  • Research Associate
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Rahul Fernandez
Rahul Fernandez
  • Research Assistant
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Zachary Grinspan , MD, MS
  • Associate Professor of Population Health Sciences
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Phyllis Johnson, MBA
Phyllis Johnson , MBA
  • Programmer Analyst II
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Hye-Young (Arian) Jung, Ph.D.
Hye-Young (Arian) Jung , PhD
  • Associate Professor of Population Health Sciences
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Lisa Michele Kern
Lisa Michele Kern , MD, MPH
  • Associate Professor of Population Health Sciences
  • Associate Professor of Medicine
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 Dhruv Khullar, M.D.
Dhruv Khullar , MD
  • Assistant Professor of Population Health Sciences
  • Assistant Professor of Medicine
  • Nanette Laitman Clinical Scholar in Healthcare Policy Research/Quality of Care Research
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Beth McGinty , PhD, MS
  • Chief of the Division of Health Policy and Economics
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Reekarl Pierre
Reekarl Pierre
  • Senior Research Assistant
Harold Alan Pincus
  • Adjunct Professor of Population Health Sciences
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William Schpero , PhD
  • Assistant Professor of Population Health Sciences
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Mark Unruh
Mark Unruh , PhD
  • Program Director of the M.S. in Health Policy and Economics
  • Associate Professor of Population Health Sciences
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Jiani Yu , PhD
  • Assistant Professor of Population Health Sciences
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Manyao Zhang, MS
Manyao Zhang , MS
  • Senior Data & Research Analyst
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Yongkang Zhang , PhD
  • Assistant Professor Population Health Sciences
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Recent Faculty Publications

D.J. Bowen; Y. Bao; J.Anne Sirey; A.D.H. Ratzliff
2020
E.C. Wirrell; Z.M. Grinspan; K.G. Knupp; Y. Jiang; B. Hammeed; J.R. Mytinger; A.D. Patel; R. Nabbout; N. Specchio; H. Cross; R.A. Shellhaas
2020
Z.M. Grinspan; J.R. Mytinger; F.M. Baumer; M.A. Ciliberto; B.H. Cohen; D.J. Dlugos; C. Harini; S.A. Hussain; S.M. Joshi; C.G. Keator; K.G. Knupp; P.E. McGoldrick; K.C. Nickels; J.T. Park; A. Pasupuleti; A.D. Patel; A.M. Shahid; R.A. Shellhaas; D.W. Shrey; R.K. Singh; S.M. Wolf; E.G. Yozawitz; C.J. Yuskaitis; J.L. Waugh; P.L. Pearl
2020
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