Ph.D. in health policy, Harvard University; B.A. in Biology, Spanish, University of Pennsylvania
Justin Timbie is a senior health policy researcher at the RAND Corporation. His research focuses on value-based payment, health care organizational models and their effects on providers and patients, and health policy issues involving the safety net. He has over ten years of experience conducting evaluations of complex programs including evaluations of patient-centered medical home programs, global budget payment models, and reinsurance programs.
Timbie’s research on health care organization and delivery includes studies of the impact of vertical integration on socioeconomic disparities in care, the impact of provider consolidation on federally-qualified health centers and rural hospitals, and changes in the structure of delivery systems after natural disasters. He has also studied clinical integration between federally-qualified health centers and other health care organizations and the effects of health system-affiliation on racial and ethnic disparities in care and the quality of care for high-need Medicare beneficiaries. Timbie has provided technical assistance to states seeking to implement value-based payment, and he currently provides technical assistance on policy analysis to the HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, which has included studies of the impact of the Affordable Care Act on safety net providers. Timbie has conducted research on quality of care in the Medicare Advantage (MA) program, which included comparisons of performance between MA and Traditional Medicare and studies on geographic variation in quality in MA.
Timbie received his doctoral degree in health policy from Harvard University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Veterans Affairs Health System.
Timbie JW, Kranz AM, DeYoreo M, Eshete-Roesler B, Elliott MN, Escarce JJ, Totten ME, Damberg CL, "Racial and ethnic disparities in care for health system-affiliated physician organizations and non-affiliated physician organizations," Health Serv Res, 55(Suppl 3), 2020
Kranz AM, DeYoreo M, Eshete-Roesler B, Damberg CL, Totten M, Escarce JJ, Timbie JW, "Health system affiliation of physician organizations and quality of care for Medicare beneficiaries who have high needs," Health Serv Res, 55(Suppl 3), 2020
Kranz AM, Mahmud A, Agniel D, Damberg CL, Timbie JW, "Provision of Social Services and Health Care Quality in US Community Health Centers, 2017," Am J Public Health, 2020
O’Hanlon CE, Kranz AM, DeYoreo M, Mahmud A, Damberg CL, Timbie JW, "Access, Quality, And Financial Performance Of Rural Hospitals Following Health System Affiliation," Health Affairs, 38(12), 2019
Timbie JW, Kranz AM, Mahmud A, Setodji CM, Damberg CL, "Federally Qualified Health Center Strategies for Integrating Care with Hospitals and Their Association with Measures of Communication," Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf, 45(9), 2019
Justin W Timbie, Alice Y Kim, Thomas W Concannon, "Use of Real-World Evidence for Regulatory Approval and Coverage of Medical Devices: A Landscape Assessment," Value in Health, 24(12), 2021
Joshua Breslau, Laurie T. Martin, Justin W. Timbie, Nabeel Qureshi, Deborah Zajdman, Landscape of Area-Level Deprivation Measures and Other Approaches to Account for Social Risk and Social Determinants of Health in Health Care Payments, (PR-A2030-1), 2022
Timbie JW, Kranz AM, Mahmud A, Damberg CL, "Specialty care access for Medicaid enrollees in expansion states," Am J Manag Care, 25(3), 2019
