Andrew Epstein, Ph.D., M.P.P.
Assistant Professor,
Division of Health Policy and Administration
Professor Epstein is a health care economist with a primary research focus on physician behavior and quality improvement, and a broader interest in the industrial organization of the health care sector. He has recently studied responses to cardiac surgery mortality report cards, the association between provider procedure volume and patient outcomes, determinants of C-section use, and the determinants of launch order and pricing of new drugs in interconnected markets. His research combines innovative uses of secondary databases with sophisticated econometric modeling techniques to address emerging health care issues.
Education
Ph.D. in Health Care Systems concentrating in Economics, The Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, 2004
M.P.P. Health Policy, Georgetown Public Policy Institute, Georgetown University, 1998
Awards and Honors
AcademyHealth 2006 Annual Research Meeting Most Outstanding Abstract in Management, Organization and Financing
Courses Taught
HPA593b Methods in Health Services Research
Current Research Projects
The Effect of a Tele-health Intervention for Congestive Heart Failure Patients on Medical Care Costs; Measuring Hospital “Value”; The Role of Medical Residency Education in Physician Practice Patterns and Patient Outcomes; How Much Does Compliance with State Medicaid Preferred Drug Lists Cost Physicians?; and Variation in the Use of Drug-eluting Stents
Selected Publications
Volpp, K.G.M., Epstein, A.J., and Williams, S.V. The Effect of Market Reform on Racial Differences in Hospital Mortality. Journal of General Internal Medicine, in press, 2006.
Epstein, A.J. Do Cardiac Surgery Report Cards Reduce Mortality? Assessing the Evidence. Medical Care Research and Review, 63(4): 403-426, 2006.
Rathore, S.S., Epstein, A.J., Nallamothu, B.K., and Krumholz, H.K. Regionalization of ST-Segment Elevation Acute Coronary Syndromes Care: Putting a National Policy in Proper Perspective. Journal of the American College of Cardiology 47(7):1346-1349, 2006.
Krumholz, H.M., Brindis, R.G., Brush, J.E., Cohen, D.J., Epstein, A.J., Furie, K., Howard, G., Peterson, E.D., Rathore, S.S., Smith, S.C., Spertus, J.A., Wang, Y., and Normand, S.T. Standards for Statistical Models Used for Public Reporting of Health Outcomes. Circulation 113: 456-462, 2006.
Volpp, K.G.M., Ketcham, J.D., Epstein, A.J., and Williams, S.V. The Effects of Price Competition and Reduced Subsidies for Uncompensated Care on Hospital Mortality. Health Services Research 40(4): 1056-1077, 2005.
Epstein, A.J., Rathore, S.S., Krumholz, H.M., and Volpp, K.G.M. Volume-based Referral for Cardiovascular Procedures in the United States: A Cross-sectional Regression Analysis. BMC Health Services Research 5: 42, 2005.
Rathore, S.S., Epstein, A.J., Volpp, K.G.M. and Krumholz, H.M. Regionalization of Care for Acute Coronary Syndromes: More Evidence Is Needed. Journal of the American Medical Association 293(11): 1383-1387, 2005.
Epstein, A.J., Rathore, S.S., Volpp, K.G.M., and Krumholz, H.M. Hospital Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Volume and Patient Mortality, 1998-2000: Does the Evidence Support Current Procedure Volume Minimums? Journal of American College of Cardiology 43(10): 1755-1762, 2004. |
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