A5051919219- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Healthcare cost, quality, practices
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
- Career Development and Diversity
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare
- Hospital Admissions and Outcomes
- Gut microbiota and health
- Global Health and Surgery
- Pharmaceutical industry and healthcare
- Assisted Reproductive Technology and Twin Pregnancy
- Health and Medical Research Impacts
- Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
- Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- COVID-19 Impact on Reproduction
- Housing Market and Economics
- Global Health Care Issues
- Science, Research, and Medicine
- Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
- Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Prenatal Screening and Diagnostics
- Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy
University of Chicago
2022-2025
Chicago Department of Public Health
2023-2025
Yale University
2024
Harvard University
2020-2022
Institute of Health Economics
2021
McGill University
2021
University of Pennsylvania
2016
<h3>Importance</h3> Private equity acquisitions of physician practices in the US have been increasing rapidly; however, implications for health care delivery and spending are unclear. <h3>Objective</h3> To examine changes prices utilization associated with private across multiple specialties. <h3>Design, Settings, Participants</h3> This was a difference-in-differences event study specialized dermatology, gastroenterology, ophthalmology that were acquired by firms from 2016 to 2020. Within...
The effects of private equity acquisitions US hospitals on the clinical quality inpatient care and patient outcomes remain largely unknown.
Rigorous evidence describing the relationship between private equity acquisition and changes in hospital spending quality is currently lacking.To examine income, use, measures that may be associated with acquisition.This cohort study identified 204 hospitals acquired by firms from 2005 to 2017 532 matched not equity. Using a difference-in-differences design, this evaluated net charges, charge cost ratios, case mix index (a measure of reported illness burden), share discharges for patients...
Despite growth in private equity (PE) acquisitions of physician practices the US, little is known about how changes ownership influence workforce composition. Using clinician-level data linked to practice acquisition information, we estimated clinician composition PE-acquired sites relative non-PE-acquired independent for dermatology, ophthalmology, and gastroenterology specialties. We calculated a replacement ratio (cumulative number entering clinicians during 2014–19 divided by cumulative...
with ISCHEMIA trial criteria) had a minimal association the proportion of patients PCIs classified as appropriate, maybe and rarely appropriate.Discussion | In national registry undergoing nonacute PCI, we found that approximately 1 in 6 were asymptomatic at time PCI.If AUC modified to incorporate randomized clinical trials, such COURAGE 5 recent trial, 2 considered these be appropriate for SIHD, rates PCI may nearly 7-fold higher compared current ratings.Given unable assess whether optimal...
This cross-sectional study assesses which medical specialties are more likely to contract with financial firms offer credit cards.
Ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs) are increasingly being acquired by private equity firms, yet the implications for patients remain understudied. In this study we employed a quasi-experimental difference-in-differences design within an event framework to assess changes in outcomes associated with acquisition of ASCs entities. Using two-way fixed effects model, assessed baseline probability unplanned hospital visit, total costs, and encounters three years preacquisition compared...
This study compares graduate medical education (GME) payments between nonprofit and for-profit hospitals 2011 2020 to assess how value GME.
This cross-sectional study examines the prevalence and characteristics of real estate investment trust-owned health care properties in US sector.
Objectives. To evaluate changes in mortality US counties along the US-Mexico border which there was substantial new wall construction after Secure Fence Act of 2006 relative to no such construction. Methods. Using complete 1990 2017 microdata and a quasi-experimental difference-in-differences design, we evaluated overall (all-cause) mortality, from drug overdose, homicide 10 with 11 We fit linear model, adjusting for population characteristics county year fixed effects, Bonferroni...
Private equity acquisitions of health care companies