Brunt C.S. Moving Beyond Harberger's Triangle to Present the Inefficiency from Misallocated Market Transactions Under Price Controls. Journal of Economic Education (Forthcoming). (link)
Bowblis J.R., C.S. Brunt. Nursing Home Staffing Expenditures and Levels are Impaired by High Medicaid Payer-mix. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 26:8, 105723. (link)
Brunt C.S. and J.R. Bowblis. 2025. Nursing Home Staffing Variability and Quality: Assessing Alternative Measures of Daily Staffing Level Variation. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 26:5, 105532. (link)
Brunt, C.S. 2025. Health Professional Shortage Area Bonus Payments and Access to Care Under Medicare. Health Economics. 34:601-630. (link)
Brunt, C.S., J.R. Bowblis, and R. Applebaum. 2024. Loss Of Public Health Emergency Funds Challenges Financial Viability of Nursing Homes, Especially Nonprofit Facilities. Health Affairs, 43:11, 1578-1586. (link)
Bowblis J.R., C.S. Brunt, H. Xu, R. Applebaum, and D.C. Grabowski. 2024. Nursing Home Workforce: The Authors Reply. Health Affairs, 43(9):1341. (link)
Bowblis J.R., C.S. Brunt, H. Xu, R. Applebaum, and D.C. Grabowski. 2024. Nursing Homes Increasingly Rely On Staffing Agencies For Direct Care Nursing. Health Affairs, 43(3):327-335. (link)
Brunt, C.S. and J.R. Bowblis. Beyond Nursing Staffing Levels: The Association of Nursing Home Quality and the Five-Star Quality Rating System's New Staffing Measures. Medical Care Research and Review, 80(6):631-640. (link)
Bowblis, J. R., Brunt, C. S., Xu, H., & Grabowski, D. C. 2023. Understanding Nursing Home Spending And Staff Levels In The Context Of Recent Nursing Staff Recommendations: Study examines nursing home spending and staff levels in the context of recent federal nursing staff regulation recommendations. Health Affairs, 42(2), 197-206. (link)
Brunt, C.S. 2023. How Do Primary Care Providers Respond to Reimbursement Cuts? Evidence From the Termination of the Primary Care Incentive Program. Medical Care Research and Review 89(3): 303-317. (link)
Brunt, C.S. 2023. Assessing the impact of enforcement and compliance with minimum staffing standards on the quality of care in nursing homes: Evidence from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' staff star rating downgrade policy. Health Economics, 32(2), 235-276. (link)
Brunt, C.S. 2022. Did the Medicaid Expansion Reduce Service Utilization Among the Medicare Population? Applied Economics, 54(10), 1172-1198. (link)
Brunt, C.S. and J.R. Hendrickson. 2022. An Empirical Evaluation of the Physician Offsetting Response. Applied Economics Letters, 29(4), 316-324. (link)
Brunt, C.S. and J.R. Hendrickson. 2021. Geographic Variation in Part B Reimbursement and Physician Offsetting Behavior: A Physician Matching Approach. International Journal of Health Economics and Management, 21, 115-188. (link)
Brunt, C.S. J.R. Hendrickson and J.R. Bowblis. 2020. Primary Care Competition and Quality of Care: Empirical Evidence from Medicare, Health Economics, 29:1048-1061. (link)
Brunt, C.S. A.S. King and J.T. King. 2020. The Influence of User-generated Content on Video Game Demand. Journal of Cultural Economics, 44, 35-56.
Brunt, C.S. 2019. Physician Characteristics, Industry Transfers, and Pharmaceutical Prescribing: Empirical Evidence from Medicare and the Physician Payment Sunshine Act. Health Services Research, 54(3) 636-649.
Brunt, C.S. and A.G. Barilla. 2018. An Evaluation of the Relationship Between Minimum Wage and Unemployment: Does the Local Cost-of-Living Matter? Applied Economics Letters, 25(7) 493-498.
Bowblis, J.R. and C.S. Brunt. 2017. The Effects of Therapist Contracting on For-Profit and Not-for-Profit Medical Billing Behavior Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 46(6):1270-1292.
Brunt, C.S. 2017. Supplemental Insurance and Racial Health Disparities Under Medicare Part B. Health Services Research, 52(6) 2197-2218.
Brunt, C.S. and J.R. Bowblis. 2017. Health Insurer Market Power and Employer Size: An Empirical Evaluation of Insurer Concentration and Wages Through Compensating Differentials. Applied Economics, 49(30) 3005-3015.
Bowblis, J.R., J. Horowitz, and C.S. Brunt. 2016. Ownership Status and Length of Stay in Skilled Nursing Facilities: Does Endogeneity Matter?. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 35(3) 303-320.
Bowblis, J.R., C.S. Brunt, and D. Grabovski. 2016. Competitive Spillovers and Regulatory Exploitation by Skilled Nursing Facilities. (2016) Forum for Health Economics and Policy, 19(1) 45-70.
Bowblis J.R., J.A. Lucas and C.S. Brunt. 2015. The Effects of Antipsychotic Quality Reporting on Antipsychotic and Psychoactive Medication Use. Health Services Research, 50(4):1069-1087.
Brunt C.S. Medicare Part B Intensity and Volume Offsetting. 2015. Health Economics, 24(8):1009-1026. (link)
Brunt C.S. and G.A. Jensen. Payment Generosity and Physician Acceptance of Medicare and Medicaid Patients. International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics, 14(4), 289-310, December 2014. (link) (full text)
Brunt, C.S. and J.R. Bowblis. Health Insurer Market Power and Primary Care Consolidation. Economics Letters, 125(1): 61-65, October 2014. (link) (full text)
Brunt C.S. and G.A. Jensen. Pricing Distortions in Medicare's Physician Fee Schedule and Patient Satisfaction with Care Quality and Access. Health Economics, 23(7):761-775, July 2014. (link)
Bowblis J.R. and C.S. Brunt. Medicare Skilled Nursing Facility Reimbursement and Upcoding. Health Economics, 23(7): 821-840, July 2014. (link)
Brunt C.S. and J.R. Bowblis. Health IT Adoption, Productivity, and Quality in Primary Care. Applied Economics, 46(15), 1716-1727, February 2014. (link) (full text)
Brunt C.S. and G.A. Jensen. Medicare Payment Generosity and Access to Care. Journal of Regulatory Economics, 44(2) 215-236, October 2013. (link) (full text)
Brunt C.S. CPT Fee Differentials and Upcoding of Physician Visits Under Medicare Part B. Health Economics, 20(7) 831-841, July 2011. (link) (full text)
Brunt C.S. and G.A. Jensen. Medicare Part B Reimbursement and the Perceived Quality of Physician Care. International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics, 10(2) 149-170, June 2010. (link)
