Research

Publications

Hospital variation in labor after cesarean and vaginal birth after cesarean in Massachusetts, 2012-2022, O&G Open, with Lauren Attanasio, Holly Laws, Sindhu Srinivas, and Sarah Goff

Impact of Geriatrics Comanagement on Pain Medication Prescribing for Older Adults Across 3 Surgical Specialties: A Pre-Post Study, Medical Care (2026), with Mark J. Simone, Ingrid M. Nembhard, and Lisa Walke

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

Working Papers

How Firms Respond to Changes in Competitors’ Quality Ratings: Evidence from Nursing Homes, with Sasmira Matta

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

Disclosure of Hospital Prices for Shoppable Inpatient Services Across Clinical Complexity Levels, with Janet Akinde, Jianjing Lin, Alexander Hoagland, and Michal Horný (under review)

Works in Progress

Within hospital variation in racial disparities in labor after cesarean and vaginal birth after cesarean in Massachusetts, 2012-2022, with Laura Attanasio, Holly Laws, Sarah Goff, and Sindhu Srinivas

Does better prediction lead to less selection and gaming? Using machine learning in risk adjustment systems, with Susan Shi