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According to Wikipedia, Austin B. Frakt is an American health economist who holds positions with the Department of Veterans Affairs, Boston University, University of Pennsylvania and Harvard. He is widely known as the founder and co-editor-in-chief of The Incidental Economist. His academic research has been published in major academic journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine and Health Affairs. Frakt supports the use of mainstream media as a means of translating academic research into policy relevance and has contributed to outlets including The New York Times and Bloomberg News. He serves on editorial boards of the academic journals Health Services Research and The American Journal of Managed Care and is a member of the New England Comparative Effectiveness Public Advisory Council.

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Austin Frakt's Published Works

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Association Between Teaching Status and Mortality in US Hospitals (2017) (191)
How much do hospitals cost shift? A review of the evidence. (2011) (140)
Addressing Social Determinants of Health: Time for a Polysocial Risk Score. (2020) (76)
Beyond capitation: how new payment experiments seek to find the 'sweet spot' in amount of risk providers and payers bear. (2012) (70)
Uninsured persons with disability confront substantial barriers to health care services. (2011) (69)
Multiscale Autoregressive Models and Wavelets (1999) (68)
Payment Policy and Competition in the Medicare+Choice Program (2002) (40)
Do Academic Medical Centers Disproportionately Benefit The Sickest Patients? (2018) (37)
The quality imperative: a commentary on the U.S. healthcare system. (2013) (35)
A multiscale hypothesis testing approach to anomaly detection and localization from noisy tomographic data (1998) (35)
Computationally Efficient Stochastic Realization for Internal Multiscale Autoregressive Models (2001) (34)
Protection or harm? Suppressing substance-use data. (2015) (33)
Face the Facts: We Need to Change the Way We Do Pay for Performance (2017) (30)
A first look at the new Medicare prescription drug plans. (2006) (29)
The end of hospital cost shifting and the quest for hospital productivity. (2014) (29)
Geographic Variation in Cancer-Related Imaging: Veterans Affairs Health Care System Versus Medicare (2014) (28)
Comparison of Costs of Care for Medicare Patients Hospitalized in Teaching and Nonteaching Hospitals (2019) (28)
Should Medicare Adopt the Veterans Health Administration Formulary? (2011) (27)
Our flawed but beneficial Medicaid program. (2011) (26)
Health and Economic Activity Over the Lifecycle: Literature Review (2018) (25)
Trends in Opioid Use Disorder and overdose among opioid-naïve individuals receiving an opioid prescription in Massachusetts from 2011-2014. (2020) (24)
An observational study goes where randomized clinical trials have not. (2015) (22)
The Rural Hospital Problem. (2019) (22)
Uninsured adults with chronic conditions or disabilities: gaps in public insurance programs. (2009) (21)
Plan-provider integration, premiums, and quality in the Medicare Advantage market. (2013) (21)
The Effects of Market Structure and Payment Rate on the Entry of Private Health Plans into the Medicare Market (2012) (19)
Transforming Medicare's Payment Systems: Progress Shaped By The ACA. (2020) (18)
Differences in Management of Coronary Artery Disease in Patients With Medicare Advantage vs Traditional Fee-for-Service Medicare Among Cardiology Practices (2019) (18)
High-Risk Pools for Uninsurable Individuals: Recent Growth, Future Prospects (2004) (18)
Predicting risk selection following major changes in Medicare. (2008) (17)
Randomized program evaluation of the Veterans Health Administration Stratification Tool for Opioid Risk Mitigation (STORM): A research and clinical operations partnership to examine effectiveness. (2019) (17)
Characteristics and spending patterns of high cost, non-elderly adults in Massachusetts. (2017) (17)
The effect of Medicaid expansions on demand for care from the Veterans Health Administration. (2015) (17)
Why now is not the time for premium support. (2012) (17)
Payment Policy and Inefficient Benefits in the Medicare+Choice Program (2003) (17)
Primary Care Physician Networks In Medicare Advantage. (2019) (17)
Overcoming Challenges to Evidence‐Based Policy Development in a Large, Integrated Delivery System (2018) (16)
Internal multiscale autoregressive processes, stochastic realization, and covariance extension (1999) (16)
Time to Release Medicare Advantage Claims Data. (2018) (16)
Innovation in a Learning Health Care System: Veteran‐Directed Home‐ and Community‐Based Services (2017) (15)
The Importance of Relative Prices in Health Care Spending. (2018) (15)
Defective design: regional competition in Medicare. (2005) (15)
Beneficiary price sensitivity in the Medicare prescription drug plan market. (2009) (14)
Effectiveness of policy and risk targeting for opioid-related risk mitigation: a randomised programme evaluation with stepped-wedge design (2018) (14)
A generalized Levinson algorithm for covariance extension with application to multiscale autoregressive modeling (2003) (13)
Payment Reduction and Medicare Private Fee-for-Service Plans (2009) (13)
Medical Scribes, Productivity, and Satisfaction. (2019) (13)
Nothing for something? Estimating cost and value for beneficiaries from recent medicare spending increases on HMO payments and drug benefits (2008) (12)
How the Economy Affects Health. (2018) (12)
Hospital consolidation isn't the key to lowering costs and raising quality. (2015) (12)
Sound policy trumps politics: states should expand Medicaid. (2013) (12)
Provider-Offered Medicare Advantage Plans: Recent Growth And Care Quality. (2017) (11)
What Type of Price Transparency Do We Need in Health Care? (2019) (11)
External Determinants of Veterans’ Utilization of VA Health Care (2018) (11)
Variation in Use of Surgical Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic by Surgical Urgency and Race and Ethnicity (2021) (11)
Frequency Of Indirect Billing To Medicare For Nurse Practitioner And Physician Assistant Office Visits. (2022) (10)
Efficient multiscale stochastic realization (1998) (10)
Price Transparency in Health Care Has Been Disappointing, but It Doesn't Have to Be. (2019) (10)
What can Medicaid data add to research on VA patients? (2010) (10)
Metrics That Matter (2016) (10)
COVID-19 Pandemic Leads to Decrease in Emergency Department Wait Times. (2020) (10)
Research Lifecycle to Increase the Substantial Real-world Impact of Research (2019) (10)
Patient administrative burden in the US health care system. (2021) (8)
The promise and perils of big data in health care (2016) (8)
The CVSAetna Merger: Another Large Bet on the Changing U.S. Health Care Landscape (2018) (8)
Medicare's Bundled Payment Initiatives for Hospital-Initiated Episodes: Evidence and Evolution. (2020) (8)
Reducing Long-term Opioid Use in the Veterans Health Administration (2018) (7)
The promise and perils of big data in healthcare. (2016) (7)
Children's Health Must Remain a Focus in the Recovery From Hurricane Harvey. (2017) (7)
The Effect of Health Reform on Public and Private Insurance in the Long Run (2011) (7)
Users Of Veteran-Directed Care And Other Purchased Care Have Similar Hospital Use And Costs Over Time (2019) (6)
A Smarter Way to Provide Epinephrine at School. (2019) (6)
Controlling prescription drug costs: regulation and the role of interest groups in Medicare and the Veterans Health Administration. (2008) (6)
Correcting Signals for Innovation in Health Care (2015) (6)
Directed funding to address under-provision of treatment for substance use disorders: a quantitative study (2013) (6)
Learning About Competition From the UK's National Health Service. (2015) (6)
Quality of Care and Outcomes Among Medicare Advantage vs Fee-for-Service Medicare Patients Hospitalized With Heart Failure. (2020) (5)
Hospital markets in the United States, 2007-2017. (2020) (5)
Pivoting from decomposing correlates to developing solutions: An evidence‐based agenda to address drivers of health (2020) (5)
Advancing the Academic Medical Center Value Debate: Are Teaching Hospitals Worth It? (2019) (5)
The association of mental health program characteristics and patient satisfaction. (2017) (5)
The Dubious Empirical and Legal Foundations of Workplace Wellness Programs (2017) (5)
The Dubious Empirical and Legal Foundations of Wellness Programs (2017) (4)
Opioid Discontinuation Among Patients Receiving High-Dose Long-Term Opioid Therapy in the Veterans Health Administration (2020) (4)
Improving provider directory accuracy: can machine-readable directories help? (2019) (4)
The persistence of medicare advantage spillovers in the post-Affordable Care Act era. (2020) (4)
The Cost of Medicare Advantage. (2016) (4)
New evidence supports, challenges, and informs the ambitions of health reform. (2013) (4)
The Future of Health Care Costs: Hospital-Insurer Balance of Power (2010) (4)
We Can't All Have It All: The Economic Limits of Pharmaceutical Innovation. (2016) (4)
Maintenance of access as demand for substance use disorder treatment grows. (2015) (3)
The Rewards and Challenges of Writing for a Mass Media Audience. (2018) (3)
InnovationInnovation Tradeoffs in Drug Pricing (2016) (3)
Administrative Costs and Health Information Technology. (2018) (3)
Improving Health Through Coverage Expansion (2014) (3)
The Case for Restructuring the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit. (2018) (3)
Determining Value and Price in Health Care. (2016) (3)
To Truly Build the Affordable Care Act Into Universal Coverage, More Creativity Is Needed. (2020) (3)
Opportunities to Enhance Value-Related Research in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (2016) (3)
Multiscale hypothesis testing with application to anomaly characterization from tomographic projections (1996) (2)
Fewer potentially avoidable health care events in rural veterans with self‐directed care versus other personal care services (2022) (2)
Challenges To Medicare For All Remain Daunting. (2020) (2)
Effectiveness of a ketogenic diet and virtual coaching intervention for patients with diabetes: A difference‐in‐differences analysis (2021) (2)
Provider supply and access to primary care. (2022) (2)
Quality of provider-offered Medicare Advantage plans (2017) (2)
Testing Novel Payment and Delivery Approaches Through the Veterans Health Administration's New Center for Innovation (2018) (2)
Multiscale autoregressive models and the stochastic realization problem (1998) (2)
Are Health Insurers’ Administrative Costs Too High or Too Low? (2013) (2)
Effect of a Predictive Analytics-Targeted Program in Patients on Opioids: a Stepped-Wedge Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial (2022) (2)
Insuring the Uninsurable : The Growth in High-Risk Pools HSRE Working Paper 12 May 15 , 2002 Prepared (2002) (2)
Multiscale realization and estimation for space and space-time problems (1998) (2)
The Persistence of Medicare Advantage Spillovers in the Post-Affordable Care Act Era (2017) (2)
Editor's desk: Improving author experience. (2021) (2)
Health Care Cost Growth Benchmarks in 5 States. (2020) (1)
Detecting fraud, waste, and abuse in substance use disorder treatment. (2022) (1)
Medicare Advantage to Traditional Medicare Spillovers : Further Considerations (2017) (1)
Voluntary Partial Capitation: The Community Nursing Organization Medicare Demonstration (2005) (1)
High-tech care can save lives--but it also may create incentives that result in lives lost. (2014) (1)
Nothing for Something: Paying Twice for Medicare Drug Benefits (2007) (1)
Attribute substitution in early enrollment decisions into Medicare prescription drug plans. (2008) (1)
What is the Economic Rationale for the Health Care Law’s Individual Mandate? (2012) (1)
The Risks and Benefits of Expedited Drug Reviews. (2018) (1)
The health policy election. (2012) (1)
Medicaid expansion: good for children, their parents, and providers. (2013) (1)
From the Editors' desk: Publishing in HSR. (2021) (1)
Making Health Care More Productive. (2019) (1)
Storm Clouds on the Horizon Expected Adverse Selection in Medicare Prescription Drug Plans (2006) (1)
Challenges of Aging Population Are Intensified in Prison. (2020) (1)
Multiscale Autoregressive Models and Wavelets: Extended Version (1998) (1)
Estimating Hospital Cost Shift Rates: A Practitioners’ Guide (2010) (1)
The Innovation vs Consumer Protection Tug-of-War in Health Policy (2014) (1)
An Economic Perspective on the Affordable Care Act: Expectations and Reality. (2020) (1)
Therapeutic and Economic Benefits of Service Dogs Versus Emotional Support Dogs for Veterans With PTSD. (2023) (0)
Hospitals Don’t Shift Costs From Medicare or Medicaid to Private Insurers (2017) (0)
How to learn basic microeconomics in a few hours (read my book) (2014) (0)
You Can/Can’t Take It With You: Obama and Romney on Portability of Health Insurance (2012) (0)
Public Policy, Insurance Market, and Health System Management Factors Affecting Access to Care for Low-Income and Vulnerable Veterans (2018) (0)
Randomized Policy Evaluation of the Veterans Health Administration Stratification Tool for Opioid Risk Mitigation (STORM) (2022) (0)
HCFE Working Paper HCFE WP # 2003-02 VOLUNTARY PARTIAL CAPITATION : THE CNO MEDICARE DEMONSTRATION (2003) (0)
Voluntary Partial Capitation (2005) (0)
HSR's Outstanding Reviewers in 2022. (2023) (0)
To Truly Build the Affordable Care Act Into Universal Coverage, More Creativity Is Needed. (2020) (0)
Evaluation of Potentially Avoidable Acute Care Utilization Among Patients Insured by Medicare Advantage vs Traditional Medicare (2023) (0)
Opinion: The State of the Union—Health Care Cannot Be Ignored (2012) (0)
Veteran-Directed Care: Supporting the Family Workforce and Seriously Ill Patients (2019) (0)
Protectionist Policies and Withdrawal From Global Coordinating Bodies Undermine Efforts to Fight Pandemics. (2020) (0)
Five minutes with The Incidental Economist Austin Frakt: “Only 0.04% of published papers in health are reported on by the media, so blogs and other social media can help” (2011) (0)
Safe Injection Facilities Reduce Individual and Societal Harms (2017) (0)
What Explains Higher Spending in the US: Prices, Utilization or Intensity? (2018) (0)
The Moral Case for Affordable Coverage and How Obamacare Fails To Live Up to It (2014) (0)
MEDICARE ADVANTAGE TO TRADITIONAL MEDICARE SPILLOVERS : DRAFT RECOMMENDATIONS (2017) (0)
Nothing for Something: Paying Twice for Drug Benefits in Medicare HMOs (Formerly 'Are There Too Many Choices in Medicare?') (2007) (0)
A benchmarking approach for characterizing providers’ patterns of treating patients with substance use disorder (2023) (0)
If Patients Don't Use Available Health Service Pricing Information, Is Transparency Still Important? (2022) (0)
Improving adherence to high-value medications through prescription cost-sharing policies (2018) (0)
Do accountable care organizations differ according to physician-hospital integration? (2021) (0)
Editor's Desk: Taking action to address structural racism at Health Services Research. (2022) (0)
Author response for "Effectiveness of a ketogenic diet and virtual coaching intervention for patients with diabetes: a difference‐in‐differences analysis" (2021) (0)
Health Insurance, Adolescents and Young Adults (2019) (0)
Editor's Desk: Increasing impact. (2021) (0)
Differences in Management of Coronary Artery Disease in Patients with Medicare Advantage Vs. Fee-for-Service Medicare Among Outpatient Cardiology Practices (2019) (0)
Considering differential trends in opioid-related harm. (2020) (0)
Variation in Medicare Advantage Networks over Time (2018) (0)
Evaluation of a Veterans Health Administration tool and policy to reduce patients’ risk of adverse events from opioid prescriptions (2017) (0)
Symposium on Academia Beyond Economics (2010) (0)
Poor Technology Management a Key Driver of US Health Care Spending (2013) (0)
From the Editors' Desk. (2021) (0)
What Do Medicare Advantage Networks Look Like (2017) (0)
Risk of Overdose Among the Opioid-Naïve Who Develop Opioid Use Disorder Following an Opioid-Prescription? (2019) (0)
Can We Get Back to Health Policy Now? Looking at Health System Efficiency (2012) (0)
Gaming Out the New Medicaid Option (2012) (0)
Publication of the Year: Effect of Peer Comparison Letters for High-Volume Primary Care Prescribers of Quetiapine in Older and Disabled Adults: A Randomized Clinical Trial (2019) (0)
Health Care Cost Growth Benchmarks in 5 States. (2020) (0)
After the Deluge: Health Reform Without an Individual Mandate (2011) (0)
The Effects of Market Structure and Payment Rates on Private Medicare Health Plan Entry (2011) (0)
Raising the Minimum Wage and Public Health. (2021) (0)
The Effects of Health Reform on Medicaid and Private Insurance in the Long Run (2010) (0)
Price Setting for Physician Services-Reply. (2018) (0)
Transforming Emergency Departments to Better Care for Elderly Patients (2018) (0)
Of all plan types, stand-alone prescription drug plans are the only ones available in large numbers and to all beneficiaries. (2006) (0)
Live Plenary: Confronting Structural Racism in HSR (2020) (0)
The Inevitable Math behind Entitlement Reform. (2018) (0)
On the Public Harms of Personal Health Care Choices (2015) (0)
Why It's So Hard for Insurers to Compete Over Technology. (2017) (0)
Medicare and the Year Ahead: Opportunities for Reform (2012) (0)
507-P: Effectiveness of a Ketogenic Diet and Virtual Coaching Intervention for Patients with Diabetes: A Difference-in-Differences Analysis (2021) (0)
Measuring Restrictiveness of Medicare Advantage Networks: A Claims-Based Approach (2023) (0)
In Honor of Uwe Reinhardt: Building on His Health Research & Policy Legacy (2018) (0)
From the Editors' Desk HSR's Outstanding Reviewers in 2021. (2022) (0)
From the Editor's Desk: Publishing in HSR in 2021. (2023) (0)
Multiscale Realization and Estimation forSpace and Space-Time (1998) (0)
On its Merits, the Affordable Care Act Should Be at Least as Popular as Medicare's Prescription Drug Program (2014) (0)
Correction to “Pivoting from decomposing correlates to developing solutions: An evidence‐based agenda to address drivers of health” (2020) (0)
PREDICTING ADVERSE SELECTION FOR MEDICARE PRESCRIPTION DRUG PLANS (2006) (0)
From the Editor's Desk: Publishing in HSR in 2020. (2022) (0)
Effect of a Veterans Health Administration Mandate to Case Review Patients with Opioid Prescriptions on Mortality among Patients with Opioid Use Disorder: A Secondary Analysis of the STORM Randomized Control Trial. (2022) (0)

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