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Welcome to my Website! I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of  Health Policy & Management at Texas A&M.  My research generally focuses on the commercially insured, and I have done extensive research on the link between health and the demand for health insurance, the interaction between provider behavior and healthcare use, state policy, and provider interventions. 

I have dedicated a large proportion of my research agenda to understand the impact of the Affordable Care Act on patient care access, utilization, and health outcomes. I have published several papers on this topic in leading health and policy journals in which we developed a method to simultaneously evaluate how the Medicaid expansions and the private marketplace expansion affected insurance coverage and other health outcomes. 

In other research I have evaluated the impact of the Patient Centered Medical Home on care patterns and quality of care, where I investigated how heterogeneous practice attributes affect care utilization and how a predictive algorithm driven intervention affects care utilization among chronically ill Medicare members.  As part of the latter work I have completed a study  evaluating whether the predictive algorithm can target members who may be especially suited to benefit from care coordination efforts compared to members who receive an intervention independent of a predictive algorithm. 

Please take a look at my CV for an updated list of publications.