Overview
I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences at Weill Cornell Medical College and Associate Director of the Cornell Health Policy Center (CHPC), where I helped launch and now co-lead the CHPC Insight Panel.
I study how payment models, provider organizations, market structure, and insurance design influence health care quality, utilization, and outcomes, with a particular focus on Medicare and primary care. Using rigorous quantitative methods, and qualitative approaches when appropriate, I conduct policy-relevant research that informs near-term health policy decisions in the United States.
My research has appeared in leading health policy and medical journals, including JAMA, Health Affairs, and Annals of Internal Medicine. My work has been cited by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) and featured by The New York Times, NBC News, NPR, and other national news outlets. I have received research support from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the U.S. Department of Defense, Arnold Ventures, and the Commonwealth Fund.
At Weill Cornell, I teach a master's-level course on Health Economics. I developed the Cornell Health Policy Early Scholars Program, which supports early-career researchers, and I mentor and advise students through programs including the Travelers Summer Research Fellowship Program.
I received my Ph.D. and M.S. in Managerial Science and Economics (Health Economics) from the University of Pennsylvania and my M.H.S. in Health Economics from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Before pursuing my doctoral training, I was a Research Associate at the Center for Studying Health System Change, a health policy research organization in Washington, D.C. I received my undergraduate degree from Wellesley College, where I graduated with honors in Chemistry and French.
Highlights
- 1JAMA · 2025
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- 3JAMA · 2022
Publications
Funding
Active
8 grants- Co-IPF 255784-01The Physicians Foundation Center for the Study of Physician Practice and Leadership at Weill CornellPhysicians Foundation, Inc. · 2026–2029
- Co-I26-18940Why Health Systems Leave Medicare Advantage Networks - Examining the Role of Administrative Payment ComplexityArnold Ventures · 2026–2028
- PIHT9425-24-1-1013The Impact of Staffing Levels on Access, Quality and Utilization: Evidence from Primary CareU.S. Department of Defense · 2024–2027
- Co-I24-24475Skirting the Medical-Loss-Ratio with Vertical Integration: Do Medicare Prescription Drug Plans Overpay Their Own Pharmacies?Commonwealth Fund · 2025–2027
- MPIR01HS029012-03Health Systems and High-Need Populations: The Effect of Vertical Integration on Utilization, Spending, and Quality for Medically ComplexPatientsAgency for Healthcare Research and Quality · 2023–2027
- PI24-10773Examining Incentives, Plan Design, and Quality in the Medicare Advantage program: Do We Get What We Pay For?Arnold Ventures · 2024–2026
- Sub-PIHT94022210010The Effects of Nursing Staff Mix and Turnover on Productivity and OutcomesDefense Health Agency · 2023–2026 · via The Geneva Foundation
- Co-I8715449The Physicians Foundation Center for the Study of Physician Practice and Leadership at Weill Cornell MedicineThe Physicians Foundation · 2023–2026
Completed grants (9)
- Co-I22-06918The Role of Value-Based Payment in Promoting Health Equity: Evidence from ACOsLaura & John Arnold Foundation · 2022–2025
- PIHT94022210001The Impact of Military vs. Civilian System Primary Care Providers on Utilization and Care QualityU.S. Department of Defense · 2022–2024
- PINYPH 223824-01The Effect of Mobile Stroke Units (MSU) on Costs, Utilization, and OutcomesNew York Presbyterian Hospital · 2020–2023
- PI21-05667The Role of Group Purchasing Organizations in the Uptake of BiosimilarsLaura & John Arnold Foundation · 2021–2022
- Co-IPF 170352-01Weill Cornell Center for the Study of Physician Practice and LeadershipPhysicians Foundation, Inc. · 2018–2022
- PI20213227The Role of Financial Incentives in Biosimilar Uptake in Medicare: Evidence from the 340B ProgramCommonwealth Fund · 2021–2022
- Co-I19-02836Private Equity Firms, Physician Management Companies and the Prices, Cost and Quality of Medical CareLaura & John Arnold Foundation · 2019–2021
- PI19-02794Biosimilar Uptake in MedicareLaura & John Arnold Foundation · 2020–2021
- Co-IAMA 200681-01Understanding the Costs of Participating in MIPS for Physician PracticesAmerican Medical Association · 2019–2020
Clinical research
Completed & closed trials (2)
- PIThe Impact of Staffing Levels on Access, Quality and Utilization: Evidence from Primary CareWeill Medical College of Cornell University · CLOSED TO ACCRUAL (as of 2025)
- PIExamining Incentives, Plan Design, and Quality in the Medicare Advantage Program: Do We Get What We Pay For?Weill Medical College of Cornell University · CLOSED TO ACCRUAL (as of 2025)
News mentions
- Burnout May Lead Family Doctors to Leave MedicineMarch 30, 2026
Family physicians who report feeling burned out are nearly 1.5 times more likely to change practices or stop practicing medicine entirely compared to their peers who don’t report burnout, a study by Weill Cornell Medicine researchers found.
- Cornell Researchers Enlist National Experts to Evaluate Key Health PoliciesSeptember 30, 2025
Most health policy experts don’t think new Medicaid work requirements introduced in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act would substantially increase employment among Medicaid-enrolled, working-age adults, according to a new survey from the Cornell Health Policy Insight Panel.
- Health Care Providers that Work Together Save Medicare MoneyApril 28, 2025
Teams of health care providers called Accountable Care Organizations participating in the Medicare Shared Savings Program have saved Medicare between $4.1 billion and $8.1 billion from 2012 through 2019, according to a new study from Weill Cornell Medicine investigators.
- Medicare Rules May Reduce Prescription SteeringJanuary 10, 2025
Weill Cornell Medicine researchers have found that pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs)—organizations that negotiate access to medicines for most patients in the United States—steer patients to use their own pharmacies.
- Brooks School, Weill Cornell Medicine Launch Center to Improve Health PolicyNovember 19, 2024
The center connects health policy researchers across Cornell’s campuses to help shape effective health policy at the federal, state and local levels.
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- Using New Method, Study Highlights Physician Turnover TrendJuly 19, 2023
Using an innovative method for measuring doctor turnover, Weill Cornell Medicine researchers determined that between 2010 and 2018, the annual rate at which physicians left their practices increased by 43 percent, from 5.3 percent to 7.6 percent a year.
- Federal Drug Pricing Program Inadvertently Promotes Use of Costlier DrugsJune 8, 2023
Hospitals participating in the 340B Drug Pricing Program, a large federal safety-net program, are financially incentivized to prescribe original biologic drugs to prevent and treat diseases in lieu of cheaper generic-like alternatives called biosimilar medications, according to a new study by Weill Cornell Medicine, NYU Grossman School of Medicine and University of Miami investigators.
- Does Medicare’s Merit-Based Incentive Payment System Really Work?December 6, 2022
A Medicare system that is meant to assess and incentivize healthcare quality with pay adjustments may not be working as intended, according to a study from researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine.
External relationships
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