News | Health Care Policy

Proposed Physician Payment Reform May Have Unintended Consequences

August 14, 2018

Proposed CMS Medicare revamp may not work in favor of many physicians and patients.

Zirui Song, Sherri Rose, and Anupam B. Jena

HCP Professors Awarded NIH High-Risk, High-Reward Director's Awards

August 13, 2018

Song, Rose, and Jena awarded NIH Director’s Awards through the High-Risk, High-Reward program.

Rose Named Co-Editor of Biostatistics

August 9, 2018

Associate professor of health care policy (biostatistics) Sherri Rose named co-editor of Biostatistics

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Increase of Assisted Living as a Substitute for Private‐Pay Long‐Term Nursing Care

August 7, 2018

Increased use of assisted living has had a negative effect on the demand for long-term care provided by nursing homes.

Zubizarreta Gives Course at Psychometric Society

July 17, 2018

Zubizarreta gave an invited course titled New Matching for Causal Inference and Impact Evaluation at the 2018 International Meeting of the Psychometric Society.

McGuire Receives Victor Fuchs Lifetime Achievement Award

July 3, 2018

Professor of health economics Thomas G. McGuire has been awarded the ASHEcon Victor Fuchs Lifetime Achievement Award.

McWilliams Paper Named 2018 AcademyHealth Article-of-the-Year

June 29, 2018

The Value-Based Payment Modifier: Program Outcomes and Implications for Disparities named the 2018 AcademyHealth Article-of-the-Year.

Normand Study Examines Risk of Weight Gain with Use of Antipsychotic Drugs

June 28, 2018

Study assesses the effect of specific second-generation antipsychotics on weight gain

Frank Receives 2018 AcademyHealth Distinguished Investigator Award

June 28, 2018

Margaret T. Morris Professor of Health Economics Richard G. Frank, PhD, is 2018 recipient of the AcademyHealth Distinguished Investigator Award.

Zubizarreta Awarded Sloan Foundation Grant

June 13, 2018

Assistant professor of health care policy Jose Zubizarreta, PhD, awarded Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant to develop new statistical methods for causal inference in large datasets.

Strong Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs May Reduce Opioid Use

June 11, 2018

Stronger PDMPs may be able to significantly reduce opioid dosages dispensed, percentages of patients receiving opioids, and high-risk prescribing.

Normand Elected to Lead NESTcc Methods Subcommittee

June 8, 2018

Professor of health care policy (biostatistics) Sharon-Lise Normand, PhD, elected to lead NESTcc Methods Subcommittee.