Susan H. Busch, Ph.D.
Associate Professor,
Division of Health Policy and Administration
Professor Busch is a health economist with a primary research focus on health care financing; much of her work focuses on mental health care. She is interested in understanding the effects of financial arrangements on access to services, therapeutic choice and appropriateness of care. Her current research focuses on value-based benefit design, mental health parity laws and psychotropic drug policy.
Education
Ph.D., Health Policy with concentration in Health Economics, Harvard University, 2000
M.S., Harvard School of Public Health, 1995
Course Taught
HPA 586b Microeconomics for Health Care Professionals
HPA 555ab Health Management Practicum
HPA 617ab Colloquium in Health Policy, taught with Jody Sindelar
Current Research Projects
Evaluating the Impact of State Parity Laws; Implications of Increased Cost Sharing in Private Health Insurance; Value-based Benefit Design; Impact of Child Mental Health Disorders on Economic Outcomes; and Psychotropic Drug Policy.
Yale Affiliations
Center for Nicotine and Tobacco Use Research at Yale (CENTURY)/Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Center (TTURC)
Yale Graduate School
In the News
Coverage for Children's Mental Illness Reduces Out-of-Pocket Spending
Busch Study Reveals Companies Can Control Costs and Improve Employee Use of Preventive Care
Selected Publications
Busch, S.H., Barry, C.L., Vegso, S., Sindelar, J.L., and Cullen, M.R. Effects of a Cost Sharing Exemption on Use of Preventive Services at One Large Employer. Health Affairs, in press, 2006.
Barry, C.L. and Busch, S.H. Effects of State Parity Laws on the Family Financial Burden of Children with Mental Health Care Needs. Health Services Research, in press, 2006.
Ross, J.S., Bradley, E.H., and Busch, S.H. Use of Health Care Services by Lower-Income and Higher Income Uninsured Adults. Journal of the American Medical Association 295(17): 2027-2036, 2006.
Wang, H., Sindelar, J.L., and Busch, S.H. The Impact of Tobacco Expenditure on Household Consumption Patterns in Rural China. Social Science and Medicine 62(6): 1414-1426, 2006.
Busch, S.H. and Duchovny, N. Family Coverage Expansions: Impact on Insurance Coverage and Health Care Utilization of Parents. Journal of Health Economics 24(5): 876-890, 2005.
Busch, S.H., Jofre-Bonet, M., Falba, T.A., and Sindelar, J.L. Burning a Hole in the Budget: Tobacco Spending and its Crowd-out of Other Goods. Applied Health Economics and Health Policy 3(4): 263-272, 2005.
Busch, S.H. and Horwitz, S. Access to Mental Health Services: Are Uninsured Children Falling Behind? Mental Health Services Research 6(2): 109-116, 2004.
Busch, S.H., Leslie, D., and Rosenheck, R. Measuring Quality of Pharmacotherapy for Depression in a National Health Care System. Medical Care 42(6): 532-542, 2004.
For a further list of Dr. Busch’s publications, please see PubMed.
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