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Assistant Policy Researcher, RAND; PhD Candidate, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Ph.D. Candidate, Pardee RAND Graduate School, and Assistant Policy Researcher, RAND
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May 13, 2024
Using claims data from private health plans, RAND researchers measured hospital prices in the United States and compared these prices to Medicare pricing for the same services.
Project
Apr 25, 2024
RAND Europe was commissioned by NHS England to evaluate their agreement with community pharmacies to help provide specific clinical services to the public.
Report
Mar 27, 2024
This report provides a scoping review of methodologies to measure health care provider upcoding, a practice in which hospitals code more secondary diagnoses or complications so that admissions or visits are coded at higher complexity levels.
Journal Article
Feb 28, 2024
This paper reports on a qualitative study assessing barriers that clinic leaders face, to reduce costs within a tiered cost-sharing commercial health insurance benefit design, that gives both consumers and clinics a strong incentive to reduce costs.
Feb 23, 2024
Introduces a taxonomy for mis-implementation (i.e., poor outcomes from efforts to implement an evidence-based practice) and applies it to three case examples from pragmatic trials of behavioral health treatments in Federally Qualified Health Centers.
Feb 5, 2024
This cross-sectional secret shopper study of 1404 MHTFs conducted from December 2022 to March 2023 found that privately owned facilities with only outpatient services were most likely to offer telehealth services.
Research Brief
Jan 29, 2024
RAND researchers developed a framework to measure behavioral health treatment bed shortages. They employed this approach in four California-based analyses, the findings of which determined how many beds to build and where to build them.
News Release
Jan 3, 2024
The average cost of providing care to hospitalized COVID-19 patients increased five times faster than the rate of medical inflation during the first two years of the pandemic, at least partly because of the application of additional medical technologies over the period.
Nov 13, 2023
The study examined temporal and geographic trends in telehealth availability at U.S. behavioral health treatment facilities and risk factors for not offering telehealth.
Nov 2, 2023
This study drew on previous research into NHS hospitals taking over running general practices, and evaluated whether hospital-run practices affect patient satisfaction and attendance, including for patients with long-term conditions.
Oct 16, 2023
The US is confronting an urgent and worsening shortage of psychiatric beds. RAND researchers identify the challenges in estimating the shortage and recommend a data-driven approach.
Sep 18, 2023
Each year, roughly 20% of U.S. adults visit an emergency department (ED). Examining ED use, Fewer than half of patients visited the closest ED. Patients who chose a farther ED sought higher-rated hospitals and reported more favorable experiences.
