Ateev Mehrotra
Overview
Biography
Ateev Mehrotra is a policy analyst at the RAND Corporation and associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Prior to this, he worked as a researcher at the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School and the Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California, San Francisco.
His research focuses on the measurement of health care quality and efficiency, applications of quality measures such as pay-for-performance incentives, and the impact of innovations in health care delivery design.
Mehrotra is board certified in both internal medicine and pediatrics. His clinical work has been both as a primary care physician and as an adult and pediatric hospitalist.
He received his M.P.H. from the University of California, Berkeley, and his M.D. from the University of California, San Francisco. He completed his residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Children's Hospital of Boston. In addition, he received his M.Sc. in epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health.
Research Focus
Concurrent Non-RAND Positions
Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh School of MedicineRecent Projects
- Assessing cost profiling methods in health care
Selected Publications
Mehrotra A, Liu H, Wang MC, Lave J, Thygeson NM, Solberg LI, McGlynn EA, "Comparing Costs and Cost Profiling in Health Care: Should the Focus be on Individual Physicians or Physician Groups?" Health Affairs, 29(8):1532-1538, 2010
Mehrotra A, Adams JL, Thomas JW, McGlynn EA, "The Impact of Different Attribution Rules on Individual Physician Cost Profiles," Annals of Internal Medicine, 152(10):649-654, 2010
Adams JL, Mehrotra A, Thomas JW, McGlynn EA, "The Reliability of Physician Cost Profiling," New England Journal of Medicine, 362:1014-21, 2010
Mehrotra A, Sorbero ME, Damberg CL, "Using the Lessons of Behavioral Economics to Design More Effective Pay-for-Performance Programs," American Journal of Managed Care, 16(7):497-503, 2010
Mehrotra A, Liu H, Wang MC, Lave J, Thygeson NM, Solberg LI, McGlynn EA, "Comparing Costs and Quality of Care at Retail Clinics With That of Other Medical Settings for 3 Common Illnesses," Annals of Internal Medicine, 151(5):321-328, 2009
Mehrotra A, Epstein AM, Rosenthal MB, "Do integrated medical groups provide higher-quality medical care than individual practice associations?" Annals of Internal Medicine, 5(145):826-33, 2006
