The Efficacy of the Rio Hondo DUI Court: A 2-Year Field Experiment
This study reports results from an evaluation of the experimental Rio Hondo driving under the influence (DUI) court of Los Angeles County, California.
Christine Eibner
Paul O'Neill Alcoa Chair in Policy Analysis; Director, Financing and Organization Program; Senior Economist, RAND; Professor of Policy Analysis, RAND School of Public Policy
Expertise
Christine Eibner is the Paul O’Neill Alcoa Chair in Policy Analysis, director of the Financing and Organization Program in RAND Health, a principal senior economist at RAND, and a professor of policy analysis at the RAND School of Public Policy. Her research focuses on health insurance reforms, including modifications to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), changes to health insurance benefit design, and innovations in the Medicare Advantage (MA) program.
She currently leads a large technical assistance contract for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation that focuses on emerging policy issues, including implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act, Medicaid eligibility changes, and drug prices, among other topics. In addition, she leads the evaluation of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services MA Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID) Model Test, which allows MA plans to offer incentives to beneficiaries to encourage the use of high-value care. Her work on health insurance reform includes topics such as 1332 waivers, state cost containment strategies, and state and national single payer plans. She currently participates in a financial technical advisory committee for the state of Washington focused on financing options for a universal health system. She earned her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Maryland.
Education
Ph.D. in economics, University of Maryland, College Park
Selected Work
- Liu, Jodi L., Federico Girosi, Ruolin Lu, Christine Eibner, Household Healthcare Payments Under Rate Setting, Spending Growth Target, and Single Payer Policies, , 2024
- "Regulation as a Strategy for Controlling Health Care Costs," in Liu, Jodi L. and Christine Eibner, State Efforts to Control Health Care Costs: Lessons Learned and Insights for the Future, The Aspen Institute and KFF, 2024
- Eibner, Christine, Christine Buttorff, Matthew Cefalu, Dmitry Khodyakov, Erin Taylor, "The Effect of the Medicare Advantage Value Based Insurance Design Model Test on Utilization in 2017," American Journal of Health Promotion, 36(4), 2022
- Eibner, Christine, Michael Dworsky, Dmitry Khodyakov, Julie Lai, Erin A. Taylor, Shiyuan Zhang , The Association Between the Medicare Advantage Value-Based Insurance Design Model Test and Beneficiary Risk Scores, CMS, 2024
- Eibner, Christine, Dmitry Khodyakov, Erin A. Taylor, et al. , Preview of Findings from the Evaluation of the ‘VBID General’ Component of the Medicare Advantage Value-Based Insurance Design Model Test (2020-2023), CMS, 2024
- Eibner, Christine, Dmitry Khodyakov, Erin A. Taylor, et al. , Evaluation of Phase II of the Medicare Advantage Value Based Insurance Design Model Test: First Three Years of Implementation, CMS, 2023
- Dworsky, Michael, Christine Eibner, Xiaoyu Nie, Jeffrey Wenger, "The Effect of Minimum Wage on Employer-Sponsored Insurance for Low-Income Workers and Dependents," American Journal of Health Economics, 8(1), 2022
- Rao, Preethi, Federico Girosi, and Christine Eibner, Assessing the Impact of Individual Market Reforms in Minnesota, RAND Corporation (RR-A3074-1), 2024