Overview
Health economist at Harvard Medical School (Department of Health Care Policy). Works on Medicare policy, health care cost growth, and healthy life expectancy. Lead author of a series of papers with David Cutler, Kaushik Ghosh, and Mary Beth Landrum documenting trends in disability-free life expectancy in the U.S. elderly population.
Key Contributions / Features
- Lead author of Chernew et al. (2016), which decomposes the sources of DFLE improvement at age 65 across 15 disease categories (1992–2008) and attributes gains to cardiovascular treatment advances and cataract surgery diffusion.
- Broader research agenda on Medicare payment design, value-based insurance, and the drivers of U.S. health spending growth.
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