Publications

Getting hospitals to participate in value-based payment reform voluntarily is a challenge.

Despite the growing need for surrogate decision-making for older adults, little is known about how surrogates make decisions and whether advance directives would change decision-making.

The overuse of some medical services remains a chronic problem in the United States

Most policy analysis methods and approaches are applied retrospectively.

Were there differences in the changes in depression and anxiety symptoms after the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade among residents of states with trigger abortion bans compared with residents of states without such bans?

Subjective cognitive impairment (SCI) measures in population-based surveys offer potential for dementia surveillance, yet their validation against established dementia measures is lacking

How did the COVID-19 pandemic affect entries into and exits out of the health care workforce?

What is the association of recreational and medical cannabis legalization with opioid prescriptions and fatal overdoses in the US?

To validate imputation methods used to infer plan-level deductibles and determine which enrollees are in high-deductible health plans (HDHPs) in administrative claims datasets

Insurance exists to protect enrollees against their financial exposure to catastrophically high-cost low-probability events. Indeed, health insurance began as sickness funds, where workers made weekly contributions to a fund that would temporarily provide a reduced wage to those too ill to work.