Close to three million unique individuals per year in the United States receive care in about 15,000 nursing homes. Compared with other health care providers, …
This dissertation addresses causal inference problems when information is available from diverse sources of data. In Chapter 1 we propose methods for estimating subgroup effects …
Background: Previous research suggests that Medicare Advantage (MA) may be successful in improving patient outcomes3 but patients with greater healthcare needs tend to leave plans …
Loss of health insurance and disruptions in coverage are associated with poor access to care and negative health outcomes. Insurance Affordability Programs enacted under the …
Inefficiency and fragmentation in the delivery of services are issues that plague health care in the United States. The Institute of Medicine estimates that as …
Pharmaceutical policy interventions are often promulgated with the implicit assumption that responsiveness is uniform across all patient groups in the population. The purpose of the …
The Medicaid program is the nation’s largest source of health insurance, providing coverage for more than 70 million Americans. There is wide variation in policies …