Lauren Hersch Nicholas
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American health economist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Lauren Hersch Nicholas is an American health economist. She is an associate professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Early life and education Hersch Nicholas earned her Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University in 2002 before enrolling at George Washington University for her Master of Public Policy degree in 2004. As a graduate student, she co-published The cost of privatization: extra payments to Medicare Advantage plans with Brian Biles and Barbara S. Cooper. Their study found that people with private Medicare plans will pay 8.4% more on average than fee-for-service costs. Upon receiving her degree, Hersch Nicholas traveled to New York and earned a Master of Philosophy and PhD at Columbia University in 2008. Her completed dissertation Medicare Advantage? Managed Care and Medicare Quality, Cost and Enrollment won the 2009 Heinz Dissertation Award from the National Academy of Social Insurance. Hersch Nicholas completed her National Institute on Aging postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Michigan.
Lauren Hersch Nicholas's Published Works
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Published Works
- Measuring financial toxicity as a clinically relevant patient‐reported outcome: The validation of the COmprehensive Score for financial Toxicity (COST) (2016) (393)
- Regional variation in the association between advance directives and end-of-life Medicare expenditures. (2011) (312)
- Association of hospital participation in a quality reporting program with surgical outcomes and expenditures for Medicare beneficiaries. (2015) (258)
- Recession Depression: Mental Health Effects of the 2008 Stock Market Crash (2013) (212)
- Bariatric surgery complications before vs after implementation of a national policy restricting coverage to centers of excellence. (2013) (186)
- Out-of-Pocket Spending and Financial Burden Among Medicare Beneficiaries With Cancer (2017) (150)
- Trends in Advance Care Planning in Patients With Cancer: Results From a National Longitudinal Survey. (2015) (108)
- Hospital process compliance and surgical outcomes in medicare beneficiaries. (2010) (88)
- Advance directives and nursing home stays associated with less aggressive end-of-life care for patients with severe dementia. (2014) (83)
- Composite measures for rating hospital quality with major surgery. (2012) (79)
- “It still affects our economic situation”: long-term economic burden of breast cancer and lymphedema (2018) (73)
- Does Pay-for-Performance Improve Surgical Outcomes? An Evaluation of Phase 2 of the Premier Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration (2014) (55)
- Identifying high-quality bariatric surgery centers: hospital volume or risk-adjusted outcomes? (2009) (53)
- Informal Care and Inter-vivos Transfers: Results from the National Longitudinal Survey of Mature Women (2013) (50)
- Landscape of Deceased Donors Labeled Increased Risk for Disease Transmission Under New Guidelines (2015) (46)
- Do popular media and internet-based hospital quality ratings identify hospitals with better cardiovascular surgery outcomes? (2010) (38)
- Bariatric surgery in minority patients before and after implementation of a centers of excellence program. (2013) (34)
- The Effect of Medical Marijuana Laws on the Health and Labor Supply of Older Adults: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study (2016) (33)
- Medicare advantage: déjà vu all over again? (2004) (33)
- Financial toxicity in lung cancer: an assessment of magnitude, perception, and impact on quality of life. (2020) (31)
- Financial Presentation of Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementias. (2020) (31)
- Do hospitals alter patient care effort allocations under pay-for-performance? (2011) (29)
- Consumer credit as a novel marker for economic burden and health after cancer in a diverse population of breast cancer survivors in the USA (2018) (29)
- Identifying diabetics in Medicare claims and survey data: implications for health services research (2014) (26)
- Leveraging the health and retirement study to advance palliative care research. (2014) (25)
- Can Food Stamps Help to Reduce Medicare Spending on Diabetes? (2010) (25)
- Evaluating popular media and internet-based hospital quality ratings for cancer surgery. (2011) (24)
- The impact of changing economic conditions on overweight risk among children in California from 2008 to 2012 (2016) (19)
- Operative delay to laparoscopic cholecystectomy: Racking up the cost of health care (2015) (19)
- Better Quality of Care or Healthier Patients? Hospital Utilization by Medicare Advantage and Fee-for-Service Enrollees (2013) (17)
- Rationale and Design of the Randomized Evaluation of Default Access to Palliative Services (REDAPS) Trial. (2016) (17)
- The impact of Covid-19 on older workers’ employment and Social Security spillovers (2021) (17)
- The cost of privatization: extra payments to Medicare Advantage plans. (2004) (16)
- Marijuana Legalization and Disability Claiming (2017) (15)
- Association Between Treatment by Fraud and Abuse Perpetrators and Health Outcomes Among Medicare Beneficiaries. (2019) (15)
- Medicare Spending and the Adequacy of Support With Daily Activities in Community-Living Older Adults With Disability (2019) (14)
- Kidney offer acceptance at programs undergoing a Systems Improvement Agreement (2018) (13)
- Association of Hospital Participation in a Quality Reporting Program with Surgical Outcomes and Expenditures for Medicare Beneficiaries (2015) (13)
- Financial Toxicity in Lung Cancer: An Assessment of Magnitude, Perception, and Impact on Quality of Life (2019) (12)
- Lifetime Job Demands, Work Capacity at Older Ages, and Social Security Benefit Claiming Decisions (2014) (10)
- The cost of privatization: extra payments to Medicare Advantage Plans--2005 update. (2004) (10)
- Medicare Advantage and Traditional Medicare Hospitalization Intensity and Readmissions (2018) (10)
- Considering potential benefits and consequences of hospital report cards: what are the next steps? (2015) (9)
- Longitudinal Trends of Financial Toxicity in Patients With Lung Cancer: A Prospective Cohort Study. (2021) (8)
- Using Credit Scores to Understand Predictors and Consequences of Disease. (2018) (8)
- Lifetime Job Demands and Later Life Disability. (2020) (8)
- The Impact of Medical Marijuana Laws on the Labor Supply and Health of Older Adults: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study (2016) (7)
- Serving Older Adults with Complex Care Needs: A New Benefit Option for Medicare. (2015) (5)
- Medicare Beneficiaries' Exposure To Fraud And Abuse Perpetrators. (2019) (5)
- Does Managed Care Reduce Federal Spending ? Evidence from Medicare (2009) (5)
- The Effect of Medical Marijuana Laws on the Labor Supply of Older Adults: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study (2017) (5)
- Cognitive Ability and Retiree Health Care Expenditure (2010) (4)
- Too much of a good thing? Multi-tasking and distraction in quality improvement. (2011) (3)
- The Importance of State Anti-Discrimination Laws on Employer Accommodation and the Movement of Their Employees Onto Social Security Disability Insurance (2011) (3)
- Modeling the Impact of Medicare Advantage Payment Cuts on Ambulatory Care Sensitive and Elective Hospitalizations (2011) (3)
- Will Medicare Advantage payment reforms impact plan rebates and enrollment? (2014) (3)
- The Impact of State Medical Marijuana Laws on Social Security Disability Insurance and Workers' Compensation Benefit Claiming (2017) (3)
- Social Security Benefit Claiming and Medicare Utilization (2013) (3)
- Medical Marijuana Laws and Disability Applications, Receipts, and Terminations (2017) (3)
- Wills, public policy, and financial well-being among surviving spouses (2020) (3)
- Older Workers’ Employment and Social Security Spillovers through the Second Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic (2022) (2)
- Advance Directives And Nursing Home Stays Associated With Less Aggressive End-Of-Life Care For Severe Dementia Patients (2014) (2)
- The effect of tracer contact on return to care among adult, “lost to follow‐up” patients living with HIV in Zambia: an instrumental variable analysis (2021) (2)
- Medicare Advantage ? The Effects of Managed Care on Quality of Care (2009) (1)
- Medicare+Choice in Palm Beach: Watching and Waiting? (2003) (1)
- Evaluating Changes in Health Care Policy: Methods Matter. (2015) (1)
- Reported effects of the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients 5‐tier rating system on US transplant centers: results of a national survey (2018) (1)
- Management of Financial Assets by Older Adults With and Without Dementia or Other Cognitive Impairments (2022) (1)
- Cancer's Lasting Financial Burden: Evidence from a Longitudinal Assessment. (2022) (1)
- The Financial Presentation of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (2020) (1)
- Changes in Unemployment Among Health Care Workers Following the COVID-19 Pandemic. (2022) (1)
- Do Medicare Advantage Rebates Reduce Enrollees’ Out-of-Pocket Spending? (2018) (1)
- Are Transplant Centers That Meet Insurer Minimum Volume Requirements Better Quality? (2020) (1)
- Correlation Between Kidney Transplant Outcome Metrics and Waitlist Metrics. (2018) (1)
- Does it Matter Who Decides? Outcomes of Surrogate Decision-Making for Community-Dwelling, Cognitively Impaired Older Adults Near the End of Life. (2021) (1)
- A Causal Estimate of Long-Term Health Care Spending Attributable to Body Mass Index Among Adults. (2021) (1)
- Will Medicare Advantage Benchmark Reforms Impact Plan Rebates and Enrollment? (2015) (0)
- Hospital Response to Pay-for-Performance Incentives (2009) (0)
- The Impact of Centers of Excellence Restrictions on Travel Time for Bariatric Surgery (2014) (0)
- NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE IMPACT OF MEDICAL MARIJUANA LAWS ON THE LABOR SUPPLY AND HEALTH OF OLDER ADULTS: EVIDENCE FROM THE HEALTH AND RETIREMENT STUDY (2016) (0)
- Transplant community perceptions of the benefits and drawbacks of alternative quality metrics for regulation (2019) (0)
- Public-Private Partnerships in Healthcare Financing: Lessons From the New York State Partnership for Long-term Care (2003) (0)
- Financial Burden in Medicare Patients With Newly Diagnosed Cancer (2015) (0)
- The Impact of Medical Marijuana Access on the Chronic Pain and Labor Supply of Older Adults: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study (2016) (0)
- Dementia Harms Household Finances Years before Clinical Recognition (2020) (0)
- Does Pay-for-Performance Work In Surgery? Evaluation Of A Medicare Demonstration Project (2011) (0)
- CompositeMeasures for Rating Hospital Quality withMajor Surgery (2012) (0)
- Biosimilar uptake of filgrastim and impact on spending in Medicare Part D from 2015 to 2019. (2021) (0)
- FINANCIAL PREDICTORS OF COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT: CAN MONEY MANAGEMENT HELP TRACK DEMENTIA? (2017) (0)
- The Context, Barriers, and Facilitators of Informal Advance Care Planning (IACP) in Black People with Kidney Failure (TH105B) (2023) (0)
- Medicare+Choice in Phoenix, Arizona: So Far So Good? Maricopa County Site Visit Report, May 7-9, 2003 (2003) (0)
- Unintended Effects of High-Stakes Performance Incentives: Evidence from Organ Transplant (2015) (0)
- Medical Marijuana Regulation (2016) (0)
- Cognitive Impairment and Medicare Utilization Near the End-of-Life (2012) (0)
- Predictors of Index Hospitalization Costs after Major Pancreatic Resection (2017) (0)
- Diffusion of Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding after the Medicare National Coverage Decision for Bariatric Surgery (2014) (0)
- Do Patients Respond to Negative Hospital Quality Information? Evidence from Organ Transplant Regulation (2016) (0)
- The Health Effects of Fraud and Abuse Exposure (2020) (0)
- Cost-sharing and financial burden for Medicare patients with newly diagnosed cancer. (2015) (0)
- Health and Care of an Aging Population (2019) (0)
- All-Payer Variation in Rates of Elective Joint Replacement (2014) (0)
- Medicare Beneficiaries' Exposure to Fraud and Abuse (2017) (0)
- The Cost of Alzheimer's Disease: New Research on Diagnosis, Financial, and Health Care Costs (2019) (0)
- Till Bad Health Do us Part? Gender Differences in Spousal Abandonment after Health Shocks (2014) (0)
- Associations between cancer patients' advance care and financial planning and surviving spouses' financial well-being. (2017) (0)
- Out-of-pocket cost trends for Medicare patients with newly diagnosed cancer. (2015) (0)
- The Impact of Medical Marijuana Access on the Health and Labor Supply of Older Adults (2016) (0)
- Cancer Survivorship and Supportive Care Economics Research: Current Challenges and Next Steps. (2022) (0)
- Is More Better ? Elective Surgery , Paid and Unpaid Work Amongst Older Adults (2010) (0)
- NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE EFFECT OF STATE MEDICAL MARIJUANA LAWS ON SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY INSURANCE AND WORKERS' COMPENSATION CLAIMING (2018) (0)
- Quality Measures for Assessing Hospital Mortality: Evaluation Using Instrumental Variable Analysis (2012) (0)
- Public Attitudes on the Future Sustainability of Medicare (2015) (0)
- Treatment preferences among adults with normal cognition and cognitive impairment (2022) (0)
- Signs of Dementia Present in Financial Data Years Prior to Diagnosis (2020) (0)
- Utilization of Filgrastim and Infliximab Biosimilar Products in Medicare Part D, 2015-2019 (2022) (0)
- Identifying cohabiting couples in administrative data: evidence from Medicare address data (2020) (0)
- The evolution of financial toxicity in patients with lung cancer. (2020) (0)
- Health Affairs End-Of-Life Care For Patients With Severe Dementia Advance Directives And Nursing Home Stays Associated With Less Aggressive (2014) (0)
- Policy brief: lessons from medicare + choice for medicare reform. (2003) (0)
- The effect of household wealth on financial debt after cancer diagnosis. (2021) (0)
- Effects of Medicare Advantage Plan Rebates on Enrollment and Beneficiary Health (2014) (0)
- Older and Disabled Patients’ Exposure to Fraud and Abuse Perpetrators (2018) (0)
- Adverse Financial Events Before and After Cognitive Impairment (2019) (0)
- Social Security Benefit Claiming and Medicare Utilization: What Can Health Care Utilization Tell Us about Work Capacity? (2015) (0)
- Medicare advantage? The effects of managed care on Medicare quality, costs, and enrollment (2008) (0)
- Is More Care Better? Economic Returns to Treatment Intensity Preliminary: Do Not Cite (2011) (0)
- The Financial Impact of Dementia: Evidence from Credit Report Data (2019) (0)
- Abstract 4217: Consumer credit, cancer treatment, and health among women with a history of breast cancer (2017) (0)
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