Research Interests: Health insurance, health disparities and health equity, Medicare, Medicare Advantage, Medicaid, value based care, transgender health
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.
An analysis by researchers at Brown's School of Public Health shows how the federal government may be paying twice for care for veterans enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans and the Veterans Health Administration.
Meehir Dixit ’24, a newly minted Brown alumnus with a concentration in public health, has already found a home as a research assistant in the School of Public Health’s Center for Gerontology & Health Research and Center for Advancing Health Policy through Research (CAHPR).
Geronimo Bejarano, originally from Colombia, stood out in a field of 2,323 graduate applicants to win merit-based fellowship for immigrants and children of immigrants
Enrollment in Medicare Advantage plans has grown substantially in the past few decades, enticing more than half of eligible people, primarily those 65 or older, with low premium costs and perks like dental and vision insurance. And as the private plans' share of the Medicare patient pie has ballooned to 30.8 million people, so too have concerns about the insurers' aggressive sales tactics and misleading coverage claims.