• 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 (Forthcoming) (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)

Teaching

Undergraduate 

ECON 2106: Principles of Microeconomics

ECON 4335: Public Finance and Public Policy

ECON 4338: Health Economics 

Graduate 

ECON 7131: Microeconomic Theory (Asynchronous Online)

ECON 8131: Health Economics (Asynchronous Online)