Harvard Kennedy School faculty disseminate their research in working publications and papers that contribute to public knowledge and fuel policy innovation. This list features recent faculty publications, including journal articles, books, edited volumes, research papers, and public testimony.

Faculty Publications

Gupta, Ravi, Jay Fein, Joseph P. Newhouse, and Aaron L. Schwartz. "Comparison of prior authorization across insurers: cross sectional evidence from Medicare Advantage." BMJ 384 (2024): e077797.
Fung, Vicki, Mary Price, David Cheng, Tej A. Patel1, Zhiyou Yang, John Hsu, Margarita Alegria, and Joseph P. Newhouse. "Associations Between Annual Medicare Part D Low-Income Subsidy Loss and Prescription Drug Spending and Use." JAMA Health Forum 5.2 (February 2024): e235152.
Saghafian, Soroush, Lina Song, Joseph Newhouse, Mary Beth Landrum, and John Hsu. "The Impact of Vertical Integration on Physician Behavior and Healthcare Delivery: Evidence from Gastroenterology Practices." Management Science 69.12 (December 2023): 7151-7882.
Marcondes, Felippe O., Mary Price, Alex McDowell, Joseph P. Newhouse, John Hsu, and Vicki Fung. "The Impact of the Medicaid Reimbursement Bump on Influenza Vaccination Rates Among US Teens: Evidence from the National Immunization Survey–Teen 2011–2020." The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine 36.5 (September-October 2023): 1-29.

Fung, Vicki, Mary Price, Emory Wolf, Joseph P. Newhouse, and John Hsu. "The Affordability Of Individual-Market Health Insurance In California Under The American Rescue Plan Act, 2021." Health Affairs 42.7 (July 2023): 1011-1020.

Festa, Natalia, Nina Katz-Christy, Max Weiss, Rebecca Lisk, Sharon-Lise Normand, David C. Grabowski, Joseph P. Newhouse, and John Hsu. "Nursing home infection control strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic." Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (2023): 1-8.
Festa, Natalia, Lidia MVR Moura, Deborah Blacker, Joseph P. Newhouse, and John Hsu. "Promise and peril of claims-based dementia ascertainment in causal inference." BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine (May 2, 2023).
Coelho, Lilian Maria Godeiro, Deborah Blacker, John Hsu, Joseph P. Newhouse, M. Brandon Westover, Sahar F. Zafar, and Lidia M.V.R. Moura. "Association of Early Seizure Prophylaxis With Posttraumatic Seizures and Mortality: A Meta-analysis With Evidence Quality Assessment." Neurology: Clinical Practice 13.3 (June 2023).
Newhouse, Joseph P. "The Design of the RAND Health Insurance Experiment: A Retrospective." Evaluation Review 47.1 (February 2023): 39-70.
Moura, Lidia M. V. R., Zhiyu Yan, Maria A. Donohue, Louisa H. Smith, Lee H. Schwamm, John Hsu, Joseph P. Newhouse, Sebastien Haneuse, Deborah Blacker, and Sonia Diaz-Hernandez. "No short-term mortality from benzodiazepine use post-acute ischemic stroke after accounting for bias." Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 154 (February 2023): 136-145.
Fung, Vicki, Mary Price, Alex McDowell, Andrew A. Nierenberg, John Hsu, Joseph P. Newhouse, and Benjamin Lê Cook. "Coverage Parity And Racial And Ethnic Disparities In Mental Health And Substance Use Care Among Medicare Beneficiaries." Health Affairs 42.1 (January 2023): 83-89.
Moura, Lidia M.V.R., Maria A. Donohue, Zhiyu Yan, Louisa H. Smith, John Hsu, Joseph P. Newhouse, Lee H. Schwamm, Sebastian Haneuse, Sonia Hernandez-Diaz, and Deborah Blacker. "Comparative Effectiveness and Safety of Seizure Prophylaxis Among Adults After Acute Ischemic Stroke." Stroke 54.2 (February 2023): 527-536.
Festa, Natalia, Mary Price, Max Weiss, Lidia M.V.R. Moura, Nicole M. Benson, Sahar Zafar, Deborah Blacker, Sharon-Lise T. Normand, Joseph P. Newhouse, John Hsu. "Evaluating The Accuracy Of Medicare Risk Adjustment For Alzheimer’s Disease And Related Dementias." Health Affairs 41.9 (September 2022): 1324-1332.
Fung, Vicki, Delaney Tevis, Max Weiss, Sharon-Lise Normand, John Bertko, Joseph P. Newhouse, John Hsu. "Premium tax credits in the American Rescue Plan and off-marketplace enrollees." The American Journal of Managed Care 28.8 (August 2022): 404-408.
Wharam, J. Frank, Jamie Wallace, Stephanie Argetsinger, Fang Zhang, Christine Y. Lu, Tomasz P. Stryjewski, Dennis Ross-Degnan, and Joseph P. Newhouse. "Diabetes Microvascular Disease Diagnosis and Treatment After High-Deductible Health Plan Enrollment." Diabetes Care 45.8 (August 2022): 1754-1761.
Hsu, John, Vicki Fung, and Joseph P. Newhouse. "Expiration of Pandemic-Related Marketplace Insurance Policies: Implications for Affordability and Coverage." JAMA 327.22 (June 2022): 2187-2188.
Festa, Natalia, Mary Price, Lidia M.V.R. Moura, Deborah Blacker, Sharon-Lise Normand, Joseph P. Newhouse, and John Hsu. "Evaluation of Claims-Based Ascertainment of Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementias Across Health Care Settings." JAMA Health Forum 3.4 (April 2022): e220653.
Behr, Caroline L., Peter Hull, John Hsu, Joseph P. Newhouse, and Vicki Fung. "Geographic access to federally qualified health centers before and after the affordable care act." BMC Health Services Research 22.1 (March 2022): 385.
Schwartz, Aaron L., Khalil Zlaoui, Robin P. Foreman, Troyen A. Brennan, and Joseph P. Newhouse. "Health Care Utilization and Spending in Medicare Advantage vs Traditional Medicare: A Difference-in-Differences Analysis." JAMA Health Forum 2.12 (December 2021): e214001.
John Hsu, Chia Yi Chin, Max Weiss, Michael Cohen, Jay Sastry, Nina Katz-Christy, John Bertko, and Joseph P. Newhouse. "Growth In ACA-Compliant Marketplace Enrollment And Spending Risk Changes During The COVID-19 Pandemic." Health Affairs 40.11 (November 2021): 1722-1730.
Schwartz, Aaron, Troyen Brennan, Christopher Jagmin, Dorothea Verbrugge, and Joseph P. Newhouse. "Coverage Denials for Medical Necessity Rules in Medicare." Health Services Research 56.2 (September 2021): 60.
Jones, Felipe J. S., Paula R. Sanches, Jason R. Smith, Sahar F. Zafar, Deborah Blacker, John Hsu, Lee H. Schwamm, Joseph P. Newhouse, Michael B. Westover, and Lidia M. V. R. Moura. "Seizure Prophylaxis After Spontaneous Intracerebral Hemorrhage." JAMA Neurology 78.9 (September 2021): 1128-1136.
Moura, Lidia M. V. R., Natalia Festa, Mary Price, Margarita Volya, Nicole M. Benson, Sahar Zafar, Max Weiss, Deborah Blacker, Sharon-Lise Normand, John Hsu, and Joseph P. Newhouse. "Identifying Medicare beneficiaries with dementia." Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 69.8 (August 2021): 2240-2251.
Clark, Robert L., and Joseph P. Newhouse. "Retirement decisions in a changing labor market." Journal of Pension Economics & Finance 20.3 (July 2021): 337-340.
Fung, Vicki, Stephen McCarthy, Mary Price, Peter Hull, Benjamin Lê Cook, John Hsu, and Joseph P. Newhouse. "Payment Discrepancies and Access to Primary Care Physicians for Dual-eligible Medicare-Medicaid Beneficiaries." Medical Care 59.6 (June 2021): 487-494.
Schwartz, Aaron L., Troyen A. Brennan, Dorothea J. Verbrugge, and Joseph P. Newhouse. "Measuring the Scope of Prior Authorization Policies: Applying Private Insurer Rules to Medicare Part B." JAMA Health Forum 2.5 (May 2021): e210859.
Newhouse, Joseph P. "An Ounce of Prevention." Journal of Economic Perspectives 35.2 (Spring 2021): 101-118.
Sanghavi, Prachi, Anupam B. Jena, Joseph P. Newhouse, and Alan M. Zaslavsky. "Identifying outlier patterns of inconsistent ambulance billing in Medicare." Health Services Research 56.2 (April 2021): 188-192.
Fung, Vicki, Mary Price, Peter Hull, Benjamin Lê Cook, John Hsu, and Joseph P. Newhouse. "Assessment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s Increase in Fees for Primary Care and Access to Care for Dual-Eligible Beneficiaries." JAMA Network Open 4.1 (January 2021): e2033424.
Moura, Lidia M. V. R., Jason R. Smith, Zhiyu Yan, Deborah Blacker, Lee H. Schwamm, Joseph P. Newhouse, Sonia Hernandez-Diaz, and John Hsu. "Patterns of anticonvulsant use and adverse drug events in older adults." Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety 30.1 (January 2021): 28-36.
Newhouse, Joseph P. "The Design of the RAND Health Insurance Experiment: A Retrospective." Evaluation Review (December 2020).
Myong, Catherine, Peter Hull, Mary Price, John Hsu, Joseph P. Newhouse, and Vicki Fung. "The Impact of Funding for Federally Qualified Health Centers on Utilization and Emergency Department Visits in Massachusetts." PLoS ONE 15.12 1-14.
Benson, Nicole M., Catherine Myong, Joseph P. Newhouse, Vicki Fung, and John Hsu. "Psychiatrist Participation in Private Health Insurance Markets: Paucity in the Land of Plenty." Psychiatric Services 71.12 (December 2020): 1232-1238.
Newhouse, Joseph P. "Assessment of Behavioral Health Services Use among Low-Income Medicare Beneficiaries after Reductions in Coinsurance Fees." JAMA Network Open 3.10 (October 2020): e2019854-e2019854.
Newhouse, Joseph P. "Are Quality-Adjusted Medical Prices Declining for Chronic Disease? Evidence from Diabetes Care in Four Health Systems." European Journal of Health Economics 21.5 (July 2020): 689-702.
Newhouse, Joseph P. "An Ounce of Prevention." National Bureau of Economic Research (July 2020).
Wharam, J. Frank, Jamie Wallace, Fang Zhang, Xin Xu, Christine Y. Lu, Adrian Hernandez, Dennis Ross-Degnan, and Joseph P. Newhouse. "Association Between Switching to a High-Deductible Health Plan and Major Cardiovascular Outcomes." JAMA Network Open 3.7 (July 2020).
Cook, Benjamin Lê, Michael Flores, Samuel H. Zuvekas, Joseph P. Newhouse, John Hsu, Rajan Sonik, Esther Lee, and Vicki Fung. "The Impact of Medicare’s Mental Health Cost-Sharing Parity on Use of Mental Health Care Services: An Assessment of Whether Medicare Cost-Sharing Reductions for Outpatient Mental Health Services Was Associated with Changes in Mental Care Visits to Physicians and Psychotropic Medication Fills." Health Affairs 39.5 (May 2020): 819-827.
Newhouse, Joseph P., Mary Price, John Hsu, Bruce Landon, and J. Michael McWilliams. "Currently Reading Delivery System Performance as Financial Risk Varies." The American Journal of Managed Care (December 2019).
Seo, Veri, Travis P. Baggett, Anne N. Thorndike, Peter Hull, John Hsu, Joseph P. Newhouse, and Vicki Fung. "Access to Care Among Medicaid and Uninsured Patients in Community Health Centers After the Affordable Care Act." BMC Health Services Research 19.1 (December 2019): 291.
Hsu, John, Joseph Newhouse, Lindsay Nicole Overhage, and Samuel Zuvekas. "Fiscal Difficulties of Cities, the Labor Market, and Health Care." Journal of Pension Economics & Finance 18.4 (October 2019): 565-578.
Clark, Robert L., and Joseph P. Newhouse. "Incentives and Limitations of Employment Policies on Retirement Transitions." Journal of Pension Economics & Finance 18.4 (October 2019): 495-499.
Song, Lina D., Joseph P. Newhouse, Xabier Garcia-De-Albeniz, and John Hsu. "Changes in Screening Colonoscopy Following Medicare Reimbursement and Cost-Sharing Changes." Health Services Research 54.4 (August 2019): 839-850.
Newhouse, Joseph P., Mary Price, J. Michael McWilliams, John Hsu, Jeffrey Souza, and Bruce E. Landon. "Adjusted Mortality Rates Are Lower For Medicare Advantage Than Traditional Medicare, But The Rates Converge Over Time." Health Affairs 38.4 (April 2019): 554-560.
Lavelle, Tara A., Milton C. Weinstein, Joseph P. Newhouse, Kerim Munir, Karen A. Kuhlthau, and Lisa A. Prosser. "Parent Preferences for Health Outcomes Associated with Autism Spectrum Disorders." PharmacoEconomics 37.4 (April 2019): 541-551.
Fung, Vicki, Cassandra Peitzman, Julie Shi, Catherine Liang, William Dow, Alan Zaslavsky, Bruce Fireman, Stephen F. Derose, Michael Chernew, Joseph P. Newhouse, and John Hsu. "Adverse Selection Into and Within the Individual Health Insurance Market in California in 2014." Health Services Research 53.5, Part I (Spring 2018): 3750-3769.
Newhouse, Joseph P. "Risk Adjustment with an Outside Option." Journal of Health Economics 56 (December 2017): 256-258.
Chien, Alyna, Joseph P. Newhouse, Lisa I. Iezzoni, Carter R. Petty, Sharon-Lise T. Normand, and Mark A. Schuster. "Socioeconomic Background and Commercial Health Plan Spending." Pediatrics 140.5 (November 2017): 1-10.
Newhouse, Joseph P., and Sharon-Lise Normand. "Health Policy Trials." New England Journal of Medicine 376 (June 2017): 2160-2167.
Jacobson, Mireille G., Tom Y. Chang, Craig C. Earle, and Joseph P. Newhouse. "Physician Agency and Patient Survival." Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 134 (February 2017): 27-47.