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Jamie Ryan

Contact Information

Assistant Policy Researcher; Ph.D. Candidate, Pardee RAND Graduate School

Santa Monica Office

Education

M.P.H. in health policy, Columbia University; B.S. in biopsychology, Tufts University

One Page Bio

Overview

Jamie Ryan is an assistant policy researcher at RAND and a Ph.D. student at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Her research interests span a wide range of substantive policy areas, including health policy, labor economics, immigration, community resiliency, and violence prevention. Her current research includes modeling complex policy issues, investigating precursors to violence, and assessing health care safety net performance.

Prior to joining Pardee RAND, she was an associate program officer for health care delivery system reform at The Commonwealth Fund in New York, where she conducted research on a variety of topics related to health care delivery system reform, including the impact of the Affordable Care Act on primary care. She also served as lead analyst on several surveys of high-need patients, primary care providers, and community health centers, which included contributing to survey design, data cleaning and analysis, and report writing.

Ryan has an M.P.H. in health policy and management from Columbia University and a B.S. in biopsychology from Tufts University, with a minor in comparative politics.

Research Focus

Recent Projects

Estimating the Effects of a Single-Payer Proposal in New York State
Effects of Health Care Payment Models on Physician Practice in the United States: Follow-Up Study
Puerto Rico Economic & Disaster Recovery
RAND Center of Excellence on Health System Performance
Targeted Violence Prevention

Publications

Research Brief
The Effects of Alternative Payment Models on Physician Practices: Follow-Up Study
Physician practice engagement with alternative payment models (APMs) would be enhanced by simpler APMs, a slower pace of change, greater support for new capabilities and timely data, and reexamination of practice response to APMs with financial risk.
Oct 24, 2018
Report
Effects of Health Care Payment Models on Physician Practice in the United States: Follow-Up Study
This report, sponsored by the American Medical Association (AMA), describes how alternative payment models (APMs) affect physicians, physicians' practices, and hospital systems in the United States.
Oct 24, 2018
Report
An Assessment of the New York Health Act: A Single-Payer Option for New York State
This report assesses how the state-sponsored single-payer health program New York Health would affect health care utilization and costs in New York, estimating its effects on key outcomes and comparing them with future outcomes under the status quo.
Aug 1, 2018
Research Brief
Estimating the Effects of a Single-Payer Proposal in New York State
The New York Health Act could expand insurance coverage in New York without increasing overall health spending, if administrative costs are reduced and growth in provider payment rates is restrained. The program would be financed by new taxes.
Aug 1, 2018