Research

Publications

Regional Price Level Estimates for Medical Services in the United States
Health Services Research September 2025
Published Version | Working Paper

Determinants of Low-Cost Provider Use: Evidence from Lab Tests
Medical Care Research and Review May 2025
Published Version | Working Paper

The Impact of Preferred Provider Incentives on Demand and Negotiated Prices
American Journal of Health Economics Volume 11, Number 4, September 2025
Published Version | Working Paper

Decomposition of negotiated price changes from preferred provider steering

Tiered Cost Sharing and Health Care Demand
Journal of Health Economics Volume 85, September 2022
Published Version

Counterfactual changes in health care demand by plan

County-level Estimates of Excess Mortality Associated with COVID-19 in the United States (with Dielle J. Lundberg, Lei Ma, Irma T. Elo, Samuel H. Preston, and Andrew C. Stokes)
Social Science and Medicine - Population Health Volume 17, March 2022
Published Version | Working Paper | Code

Comparison of observed and expected deaths in large counties, 2011–2020

The Value of Medical Care in the United States: Changes in Lifetime Spending and Health Adjusted Life-Expectancy, 1996 to 2016 (with Esha Dwibedi, Abe Dunn, Lasanthi Fernando, Jonah Joffe, Justine Mallatt, Chris JL Murray, Joseph L Dieleman, and Marcia R. Weaver)
Value in Health, In Press, 2026
Published Version | Working Paper | Code

HALE and lifetime spending effects by condition, split by age 0–64 and age 65+ portions

Productivity Growth in the U.S. Medical Care Sector: An Analysis Using the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis’s Health Care Satellite Account (with Abe Dunn and John Romley) International Productivity Monitor In Press, 2026 Published Version | Research Spotlight

Working Papers

Are Medicaid and Medicare Patients Treated Equally? (with Abe Dunn, Eli Liebman, and Adam Shapiro)
Revise and Resubmit at American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
Working Paper

Quantifying Productivity Growth in Medical Care: Twenty Years of Evidence from Nine Health Conditions (with Abe Dunn and John Romley) Working Paper

Work in Progress

Medicaid Enrollee and Provider Responses to the ACA Fee Bump: Leveraging MAX Data (with Justine Mallatt)

Regional Price Parities for Health Care Services in the United States: Estimates from Commercial and Medicare Claims (with Kun Li and Kyle Hood)

Health Care Price Growth by Price of Service