Research

Job Market Paper

Hoisted by its own petard? Medicare Advantage Payment and the Affordable Care Act

Medicare Advantage (MA) payment was changed by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) using several policy levers. The literature studying the effect of the ACA's payment changes focuses on only one of the policy levers. I study how benchmark changes and Quality Bonus Program payments conflicted with each other and mitigated overall impacts on MA.

Publications

Growth of Medicare Advantage After Plan Payment Reductions, JAMA Health Forum (2023), with Aaron Schwartz, Amol Navathe, and Amol Gupta
Media Coverage: LDI Blog (August 2023)

How Do Claims-Based Measures of End-of-Life Care Compare to Family Ratings of Care Quality?, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (2020), with Thomas J. Christian, Andrea Hassol, Gabriel A. Brooks, Qian Gu, Mary Beth Landrum, and Nancy L. Keating

Works in Progress

Geriatric Surgery Co-Management Improves Patient Pain Management, with Ingrid Nembhard, Mark Simone, and Lisa Walke

How Firms Respond to Changes in Competitors' Quality Ratings, with Sasmira Matta