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According to Wikipedia, Amitabh Chandra is an Indian-American academic and healthcare economist who is the Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Chandra received his BA and PhD in economics from the University of Kentucky; his dissertation was titled Labor Market Dropouts and the Racial Wage Gap, 1940-1990.

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Malpractice risk according to physician specialty. (2011) (750)
Does Public Infrastructure Affect Economic Activity?: Evidence from the Rural Interstate Highway System (2000) (639)
Medicare spending, the physician workforce, and beneficiaries' quality of care. (2004) (595)
National costs of the medical liability system. (2010) (437)
Patient Cost-Sharing and Hospitalization Offsets in the Elderly. (2010) (368)
Rising up with shoe leather? A comment on Fair Society, Healthy Lives (the Marmot Review). (2010) (344)
What Does a Deductible Do? The Impact of Cost-Sharing on Health Care Prices, Quantities, and Spending Dynamics (2015) (321)
Technology Growth and Expenditure Growth in Health Care (2011) (319)
Productivity Spillovers in Health Care: Evidence from the Treatment of Heart Attacks (2007) (314)
Association between Income and the Hippocampus (2011) (302)
Hospital-Level Racial Disparities in Acute Myocardial Infarction Treatment and Outcomes (2005) (282)
Who you are and where you live: how race and geography affect the treatment of medicare beneficiaries. (2004) (265)
Geographic variation in the appropriate use of cesarean delivery. (2006) (204)
Large increases in spending on postacute care in Medicare point to the potential for cost savings in these settings. (2013) (199)
Who Ordered That? The Economics of Treatment Choices in Medical Care (2011) (196)
Malpractice liability costs and the practice of medicine in the Medicare program. (2007) (187)
Taxes and the Timing of Births (1999) (186)
Mortality After Acute Myocardial Infarction in Hospitals That Disproportionately Treat Black Patients (2005) (179)
Geographic Variation in Health Care and the Problem of Measuring Racial Disparities (2005) (171)
The Labor Market Effects of Rising Health Insurance Premiums (2005) (167)
The growth of physician medical malpractice payments: evidence from the National Practitioner Data Bank. (2005) (143)
Hospital quality and intensity of spending: is there an association? (2009) (134)
Point-of-purchase price and education intervention to reduce consumption of sugary soft drinks. (2010) (128)
Geography and Racial Health Disparities (2003) (123)
The Effect of Malpractice Liability on the Delivery of Health Care (2004) (122)
Health Care Exceptionalism? Performance and Allocation in the US Health Care Sector. (2016) (120)
Labor-Market Dropouts and the Racial Wage Gap: 1940-1990 (2000) (115)
Patient Cost-Sharing, Hospitalization Offsets, and the Design of Optimal Health Insurance for the Elderly (2007) (109)
The impact of patient cost-sharing on low-income populations: evidence from Massachusetts. (2013) (108)
Surgeon specialization and operative mortality in United States: retrospective analysis (2016) (104)
On average, physicians spend nearly 11 percent of their 40-year careers with an open, unresolved malpractice claim. (2013) (103)
Geographic correlation between large-firm commercial spending and Medicare spending. (2010) (103)
Trends in the earnings of male and female health care professionals in the United States, 1987 to 2010. (2013) (96)
Outcomes of medical malpractice litigation against US physicians. (2012) (84)
Iatrogenic Specification Error: A Cautionary Tale of Cleaning Data (2003) (82)
Healthcare Exceptionalism? Performance and Allocation in the U.S. Healthcare Sector (2015) (79)
Massachusetts' health care reform and emergency department utilization. (2011) (79)
Is the Convergence of the Racial Wage Gap Illusory? (2003) (79)
Is spending more always wasteful? The appropriateness of care and outcomes among colorectal cancer patients. (2008) (71)
The importance of the individual mandate--evidence from Massachusetts. (2011) (69)
Geographic Variation in Health Care and the Problem of Measuring Racial Disparities (2005) (66)
The economics of graduate medical education. (2014) (63)
Economic Vulnerability of Households With Essential Workers. (2020) (62)
The elusive connection between health care spending and quality. (2008) (60)
Evidence-Based Health Policy. (2017) (58)
Identifying Sources of Inefficiency in Health Care (2017) (56)
Is This Time Different?: The Slowdown in Health Care Spending (2013) (55)
The Productivity of Physician Specialization: Evidence from the Medicare Program. (2004) (55)
The Pragmatist&Apos;S Guide to Comparative Effectiveness Research (2011) (52)
Ensuring the fiscal sustainability of health care reform. (2010) (52)
Utility of Cancer Value Frameworks for Patients, Payers, and Physicians. (2016) (50)
The Economics of Indication-Based Drug Pricing. (2017) (49)
The sources of the SGR "hole". (2012) (48)
Would having more primary care doctors cut health spending growth? (2009) (45)
The Health Costs of Cost-Sharing (2021) (40)
Identifying Provider Prejudice in Healthcare (2010) (38)
Saving Money or Just Saving Lives? Improving the Productivity of US Health Care Spending. (2012) (37)
Patient Cost Sharing in Low Income Populations. (2010) (35)
Comparison of Self-Reported and Medicare Claims-Identified Acute Myocardial Infarction (2015) (31)
Malpractice Risk Among US Pediatricians (2013) (31)
Measuring Racial Disparities in the Quality of Ambulatory Diabetes Care (2010) (31)
Three Tests for Measuring Unjustified Disparate Impacts in Organ Transplantation: The Problem of "Included Variable" Bias (2005) (30)
Differences in neonatal mortality among whites and Asian American subgroups: evidence from California. (2007) (30)
Insurer market structure and variation in commercial health care spending. (2014) (30)
The Consequences of the Growth of Health Insurance Premiums. (2005) (29)
Do race-specific models explain disparities in treatments after acute myocardial infarction? (2007) (29)
The Great Unequalizer: Initial Health Effects of COVID-19 in the United States (2021) (28)
Behavioral economics and health-care markets (2019) (26)
Addressing the challenge of gray-zone medicine. (2015) (26)
Challenges in Understanding Differences in Health Care Spending Between the United States and Other High-Income Countries. (2018) (26)
Productivity Dispersion in Medicine and Manufacturing. (2016) (25)
Rebates in the Pharmaceutical Industry: Evidence from Medicines Sold in Retail Pharmacies in the U.S (2020) (25)
Regional and Racial Variation in Health Care Among Medicare Beneficiaries (2008) (24)
Trends in the earnings of health care professionals in the United States, 1987-2010. (2012) (24)
The Past and Future of the Affordable Care Act. (2016) (24)
Aspirin, angioplasty and proton beam therapy: the economics of smarter health-care spending (2011) (23)
Disparities in Health and Health Care Among Medicare Beneficiaries (2008) (23)
Medical professional liability risk among US cardiologists. (2014) (22)
Causes and solutions (2010) (22)
How economics can shape precision medicines (2017) (22)
Understanding Agglomerations in Health Care (2010) (22)
Defensive Medicine and Disappearing Doctors (2005) (21)
Health insurance coverage of the unemployed: COBRA and the potential effects of Kassebaum-Kennedy. (1999) (21)
Myths and misconceptions about U.S. health insurance. (2008) (19)
Markers and Drivers: Cardiovascular Health of Middle-Age and Older Indians (2011) (19)
Testing a Roy Model with Productivity Spillovers: Evidence from the Treatment of Heart Attacks (2004) (19)
Health Care Employment Growth and the Future of US Cost Containment. (2018) (18)
The economics of health care delivery. (2012) (16)
Who you are and where you live: race and the geography of healthcare. (2009) (16)
Defense costs of medical malpractice claims. (2012) (16)
Uncomfortable arithmetic--whom to cover versus what to cover. (2010) (16)
Characterizing the Drug Development Pipeline for Precision Medicines (2017) (16)
Allocation of COVID-19 Relief Funding to Disproportionately Black Counties. (2020) (16)
Competition in the Age of Biosimilars. (2015) (15)
The Orphan Drug Act at 35: Observations and an Outlook for the Twenty-First Century (2019) (15)
Medicare Spending , The PhysicianWorkforce , And Beneficiaries ’ Quality Of Care Areas with a high concentration of specialists also show higher spending and less use of high-quality , effective care (2004) (15)
The Impact of Tobacco Control Policies on Disparities in Children’s Secondhand Smoke Exposure: A Comparison of Methods (2012) (14)
Innovation Incentives and Biomarkers (2018) (13)
The Impact of Patient Cost-Sharing on the Poor: Evidence from Massachusetts (2012) (11)
A trillion-dollar geography lesson. (2009) (11)
Cooper's analysis is incorrect. (2008) (11)
Moving the Financing of Graduate Medical Education Into the 21st Century. (2020) (11)
The health care jobs fallacy. (2012) (11)
Challenges To Reducing Discrimination And Health Inequity Through Existing Civil Rights Laws. (2017) (11)
Robot-assisted surgery for kidney cancer increased access to a procedure that can reduce mortality and renal failure. (2015) (11)
The Pragmatist's Guide to Comparative (2016) (10)
It’s Time to Reform the Orphan Drug Act (2018) (8)
Readmission penalties and health insurance expansions: a dispatch from Massachusetts. (2014) (8)
Is the Convergence in the Racial Wage Gap Illusory? New Estimates of the Butler-Heckman Hypothesis¤ (2001) (7)
Local Population Characteristics and Hemoglobin A1c Testing Rates among Diabetic Medicare Beneficiaries (2014) (7)
Do We Spend Too Much on Health Care? (2020) (7)
Best of Both Worlds Uniting Universal Coverage and Personal Choice in Health Care (2013) (7)
Preliminary & Incomplete Do Not Cite or Distribute Expertise, Underuse, and Overuse in Healthcare (2011) (7)
Hospital Allocation and Racial Disparities in Health Care (2020) (7)
Correcting Signals for Innovation in Health Care (2015) (6)
The Diffusion of New Medical Technology: The Case of Drug-Eluting Stents (2013) (6)
Allocation of COVID-19 Relief Funding to Disproportionately Black Counties. (2020) (6)
A Simple Way to Measure Health Care Outcomes (2016) (6)
Quantifying Gains in the War on Cancer Due to Improved Treatment and Earlier Detection (2016) (6)
CHILDREN, NON-DISCRIMINATORY PROVISION OF FRINGE BENEFITS, AND HOUSEHOLD LABOR MARKET DECISIONS (2003) (5)
Sources of Inefficiency in Healthcare and Education. (2016) (4)
Cost Growth in Medicare: 1992 to 2006 (2011) (4)
Perspective: Massachusetts' Health Care Reform and Emergency Department Utilization (2011) (4)
MORTALITY AFTER ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION IN HOSPITALS THAT DISPROPORTIONATELY TREAT AFRICAN-AMERICANS (2005) (4)
Product naming , pricing , and market uptake of biosimilars (4)
Supporting Value-Based Health Care - Aligning Financial and Legal Accountability. (2021) (4)
Public Health Expenditures on the Working Age Disabled: Assessing Medicare and Medicaid Utilization of SSDI and SSI Recipients (2011) (3)
Returns to Society from Investment in Cancer Research and Development (2016) (3)
Malpractice Risk, by Physician Specialty: (2011) (2)
Outcomes Assessment and Health Care Reform (2008) (2)
Trends The Growth Of Physician Medical Malpractice Payments : Evidence From The National Practitioner Data Bank The growth of malpractice payments is less than previously thought (2005) (2)
Achieving Universal Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: Addressing Market Failures or Providing a Social Floor? (2023) (2)
Cardiac intervention rates for older patients with acute myocardial infarction in the United States and Ontario, 2003-2013: a retrospective cohort study. (2020) (2)
Economic Principles for Medicare Reform (2019) (2)
Technology and Expenditure Growth in Health Care* (2008) (2)
An FDA Commissioner for the 21st Century. (2017) (2)
Regulatory Approval and Expanded Market Size (2021) (2)
The Pragmatist’s Guide to Comparative Effectiveness Research The Pragmatist’s Guide to Comparative Effectiveness Research (2021) (2)
Coverage of New Drugs in Medicare Part D. (2022) (1)
Comment on "Income, Aging, Health and Well-Being around the World: Evidence from the Gallup World Poll" (2010) (1)
The Impact of Medicare Part D on Social Security Disability Insurance Beneficiaries (2017) (1)
A Detailed Plan for Getting Americans Back to Work (2020) (1)
Losing Genetic Lottery, but Winning at Cure (2017) (1)
Reviewers for the Journal, January-June 2016. (2016) (1)
Are Black-White Mortality Rates Converging? Acute Myocardial Infarction in the United States, 1993–2010 (2016) (1)
The Contribution of Price Growth to Pharmaceutical Revenue Growth in the U.S.: Evidence from Medicines Sold in Retail Pharmacies. (2022) (1)
Gender income disparities can be explained by alternative factors--reply. (2014) (1)
GEOGRAPHIC KNOWLEDGE SPILLOVERS: EVIDENCE FROM THE TREATMENT OF HEART ATTACKS (2000) (1)
Hospital Organization and Productivity (2014) (1)
The Health Benefits of Medicare Expenditures : Evidence from the Healthcare Cost Slowdown (2016) (1)
Trickle-down innovation and the longevity of nations (2019) (1)
Managing new health technologies (2017) (1)
What Values and Priorities Mean for Health Reform. (2020) (1)
The Veiled Economics of Employee Cost Sharing. (2015) (1)
The Past, Present, and (Near) Future of Gene Therapy and Gene Editing (2020) (1)
InsurerMarket Structure and Variation in Commercial Health Care Spending (2014) (0)
A multiple-battery factor analysis test of the arbitrage pricing theory (1989) (0)
PRODUCTIVITY AND EXPENDITURE GROWTH IN HEALTH CARE (2009) (0)
Venture Capital Led Entrepreneurship in Health Care (2021) (0)
Civil Rights Laws: The Authors Reply. (2017) (0)
FRESH-Thinking Focused Research on Efficient , Secure Healthcare Outcomes Assessment And Health Care Reform (2007) (0)
Availability of New Medicines in the US and Germany From 2004 to 2018 (2022) (0)
Comment on "Spousal Health Effects: the Role of Selection" (2013) (0)
What Can Economics Say About Alzheimer&Apos;S Disease? (2020) (0)
SITE SELECTION BIAS IN PROGRAM EVALUATION Site Selection Bias in Program Evaluation (2014) (0)
Let's get americans back to work again (2020) (0)
Comment on "Health and Well-Being in Udaipur and South Africa" (2009) (0)
Can We Afford More Health Care? (2013) (0)
Competition and Biosimilar Products--Reply. (2015) (0)
Comment on "Aging and Death under a Dollar a Day" (2010) (0)
Zari (2008) (0)
Financing of US Graduate Medical Education-Reply. (2021) (0)
Long-term survivorship for patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) treated with nivolumab (nivo): a response-based modeling approach (2017) (0)
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES GIFFEN BEHAVIOR: THEORY AND EVIDENCE (2007) (0)
Comment on "Nutrition, Iron Deficiency Anemia, and the Demand for Iron Fortified Salt: Evidence from an Experiment in Rural Bihar" (2013) (0)
Technical Note on Bayesian Statistics and Frequentist Power Calculations (2019) (0)
Nepal : the quest for elusive peace (2010) (0)
Markers and Drivers (2011) (0)
TABLE 16-8, Do Health Behaviors Explain Interstate Variations and SES Gradients in Obesity? Results from Multinomial Logistic Regression Models (2012) (0)
Consequences of selling a kidney in India. (2003) (0)
Microcompetition with Foreign DNA and the Origin of Chronic Disease (reivew) (2005) (0)
A Call for Regulation of High Drug Prices (2023) (0)
What If All Value-Based Drugs Were Tremendous? (2017) (0)
10. The Role of Technology in Expenditure Growth in Healthcare - Amitabh Chandra and Jonathan Holmes (2015) (0)
Robot-assisted surgery: the authors reply. (2015) (0)
This paper was produced as part of the Centre's Productivity and Innovation Programme. The Centre for Economic Performance is financed by the Economic and Social Research Council. (2011) (0)
How Do You Define a Drug’s Value? (2018) (0)
Evaluating Matching‐Adjusted Indirect Comparisons in Practice: A Case Study of Patients with Attention‐Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (2017) (0)
Productivity Dispersion in Medicine and Manufacturing article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters (2019) (0)
Methodological Assessment of Matching-Adjusted Indirect Comparisons: Case Study Application To Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (Adhd). (2014) (0)
PRELIMINARY: PLEASE DO NOT CITE OR CIRCULATE (2008) (0)
Drug Market Exclusivity Periods: Helpful/Harmful? (2018) (0)
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE PRAGMATIST’S GUIDE TO COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS RESEARCH (2011) (0)
UCLA On-Line Working Paper Series Title (2004) (0)
Detecting Treatment Misallocation (2009) (0)
IDENTIFYING SOURCES OF INEFFICIENCY IN HEALTHCARE* AMITABH CHANDRA AND DOUGLAS O. STAIGER (2019) (0)
11The Diﬀusion of NewMedical TechnologyThe Case of Drug-Eluting Stents (2014) (0)
The metrics of the physician brain drain. (2006) (0)
Comment on "Childhood Health and Differences in Late-Life Health Outcomes between England and the United States" (2011) (0)
Are Black-White Mortality Rates Converging? Acute Myocardial Infarction in the U.S., 1993-2010 (2016) (0)
Regulatory Incentives for Innovation: The FDA's Breakthrough Therapy Designation (2022) (0)
Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Health Care (2020) (0)
Preliminary*and*incomplete.*do*not*cite*or*circulate*without*permission* * 0* * Healthcare Exceptionalism? Productivity and Allocation in the U.s. Healthcare Sector + * Preliminary*and*incomplete.*do*not*cite*or*circulate*without*permission* * 1* * (2012) (0)
Association between Income and the Hippocampus Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters (2011) (0)
This PDF is a selection from a published volume from the National Bureau of Economic Research Volume Title: Health at Older Ages: The Causes and Consequences of Declining Disability among the Elderly (2011) (0)
IMPROVING COMPLIANCE TO THE CENTERS FOR MEDICARE AND MEDICAID SERVICES (CMS) SEPSIS BUNDLE USING EPIC EMR INFORMATICS (2019) (0)
Comment on "The Value of Progress against Cancer in the Elderly" (2011) (0)
PRELIMINARY : NOT FOR ATTRIBUTION OR CIRCULATION OUTCOMES ASSESSMENT AND HEALTH CARE REFORM (2009) (0)
PRELIMINARY : COMMENTS WELCOME IDENTIFYING SOURCES OF INEFFICIENCY IN HEALTHCARE * (2017) (0)
MANDATORY NATIONAL PUBLIC REPORTING DID NOT REDUCE MORTALITY FOR ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION AND HEART FAILURE (2011) (0)
Among Colorectal Cancer Patients Is Spending More Always Wasteful ? The Appropriateness Of Care And Outcomes (2007) (0)
You have printed the following article : Health Insurance Coverage of the Unemployed : COBRA and the Potential Effects of (2007) (0)
Perspective The NEW ENGL A ND JOUR NA L of MEDICI NE (2012) (0)
Hospital Productivity and the Misallocation of Healthcare Inputs (2020) (0)
A Different Framework to Achieve Universal Coverage in the US. (2023) (0)

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