Research Interests: Health insurance, health disparities and health equity, Medicare, Medicare Advantage, Medicaid, value based care, transgender health
Speaking before the Joint Economic Committee, Brown University public health researcher David Meyers offered policy options to improve Medicare Advantage integrity and reduce waste for taxpayers.
Associate Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice David Meyers led a study that found payments to Medicare Advantage brokers more than doubled between 2014 and 2022.
Using newly obtained federal data, Brown health policy researchers provide one of the clearest looks at how federal regulators impose Medicare Advantage penalties over a 13-year period, and how they fail to.
Developed by researchers in Brown University’s School of Public Health, the MediCode tool shows how coding practices in Medicare Advantage lead to billions in overspending.
The first study to evaluate the racial and ethnic diversity of physicians in private insurance networks contributes to the larger conversation about diversity in the physician workforce.