Alison Evans Cuellar
Overview
Biography
Alison Cuellar's research has explored two very different streams: One is the identification and evaluation new organizational forms, such as hospital systems and physician alliances, and their effects on quality, efficiency, costs, prices, and technology adoption. This includes recent work on hospital quality reporting as well as Medicare Advantage plans. She spent the 2005-06 academic year as a visiting economist to the Antitrust Division in U.S. Department of Justice. The other research area is the intersection of behavioral health and the juvenile justice systems; Medicaid policies and their impact on justice-involved youth and youth with behavioral health problems; mental health courts as an innovative alternative for juvenile delinquents; and health care services for incarcerated youth and adults returning to the community.
Research Focus
Economics
Biography
Alison Cuellar has extensive experience around health care policy and delivery as it relates to and justice-involved populations, through work funded by NIMH. In the area of mental health delivery, she has examined Medicaid for vulnerable populations, includnig mental health courts for delinquent youth and health care delivery transitions for incarcerated youth and adults returning to the community. In other work, she has focused on hospital systems and physician alliances, quality reporting for hospitals, and the Medicare Advantage program.
Recent Projects
- Medicaid policies for vulnerable populations with mental illness
- Mental health courts for juvenile delinquents
- Cost-effectiveness of a Depression Intervention for Patients with Comorbid Substance Misuse
- Identifying and evaluating new organizational forms in hospital care, such as hospital systems and physician alliances, and their effects on quality, efficiency, costs, prices, and technology adoption;
- Mental health needs assessment in DC
Selected Publications
J Hernden, S Mattke, A Cuellar, S Hong, "Anti-Inflammatory Medication Adherence and Heatlh Care Utilization and Expenditures among Medicaid and CHIP Enrollees with Asthma," PharmacoEconomics, 2010
Alison Evans Cuellar, Kelly J. Kelleher, Sheryl Kataoka, Steven Adelsheim, and Joseph J. Cocozza, "Incarceration and psychotropic drug use for youth," Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 162(3):219-24, 2008
Alison Evans Cuellar and Sara Markowitz, "Antidepressants and Youth: Healing or Harmful?" Social Science and Medicine, 64(10):2138-2151, 2007
Alison Evans Cuellar and Deborah Haas-Wilson, "Competition and Mental Health Services," American Journal of Psychiatry
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