Research

WORKING PAPERS

1. Differences in Dementia Diagnosis Rates in Primary Care in Traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage.

2. Changes to Medicare Advantage Risk Adjustment and Dementia Diagnosis in Older Adults (with Mireille Jacobson and Julie Zissimopoulos).

3. Comparison of Cancer Care Delivery and Outcomes in Medicare Advantage and Traditional Medicare (with Kevin Sullivan, Muhammad Talha Waheed, Yuman Fong, Mustafa Raoof).

4. Many Doctors will see you now: High-Referring Physicians and Patient Health Care Use (under review)

5. The Impact of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs on Infant Health

PUBLICATIONS:

1. Effect of Patient Death on Referrals to Cardiac Specialists-Health Economics (2024).

2. Estimates of diagnosed dementia prevalence and incidence among diverse beneficiaries in traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage (with Johanna Thunell, Geoff Joyce, Patricia Ferido, Bryan Tysinger, Mireille Jacobson, Julie Zissimopoulos)-Alzheimer's and Disease: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Montioring (2023)

3. Medicare Advantage: A Disadvantage of Complex Cancer Surgery Patients-(with Mustafa Raoof, Gretchen Jacobson, Phililp Ituarte, Oliver Eng, Kevin Sullivan, Jae Kim,  Yuman Fong)  - Journal of Clinical Oncology (2023).

4.  Systemic Failure to operate on colorectal cancer live metastases in California-(with Mustafa Raoof, Zeljka   Jutric, Philip Ituarte, Beigqun Zhao, Gandeep Singh, Laleh  Melstron, Susanne Warner, Bryan Clary,   Y  uman Fong)-Cancer Medicine (2020)   

5.  Liver Resection Improves Survival in Colorectal Cancer Patients- (with Mustafa Raoof,  Philip Ituarte, Yuman Fong)- Annals of Surgery (2019)