Research
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
D Qato, R Myerson, A Shooshtari, J Guadamuz, GC Alexander. Changes in the use of oral and emergency contraceptives after the United States Supreme Court's \emph{Dobbs} decision. Forthcoming, JAMA Network Open.
D Qato, J Romley, R Myerson, D Goldman, AM Fendrick. Shingles vaccinations in Medicare Part D after elimination of beneficiary cost-sharing under the Inflation Reduction Act. Forthcoming, JAMA.
L Dague, R Myerson. Loss of Medicaid coverage during the renewal process. Forthcoming, JAMA Health Forum.
R Myerson, D Qato, D Goldman, J Romley. Insulin fills by Medicare enrollees and out-of-pocket caps under the Inflation Reduction Act. JAMA, 2023; 330(7): 660-662.
Coverage: [Washington Post] [United States Senate Committee on Finance] [Wisconsin Public Radio]
R Myerson, H Li. Information gaps and health insurance enrollment: Evidence from the Affordable Care Act navigator programs. American Journal of Health Economics, 2022; 8(4): 477-505. (ungated version on SSRN)
Coverage: [Center on Budget and Policy Priorities] [Balloon Juice] [WKOW News] [UW School of Medicine and Public Health Quarterly magazine]
Policy Impact: [Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services]
R Myerson, D Anderson, L Baum, E Franklin Fowler, S Gollust, P Shafer. Cuts to navigator funding were not associated with changes to private sector advertising in the ACA Marketplaces. JAMA Network Open. 2022;5(8):e2224651. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.24651. (SSRN version)
Coverage: [Center on Budget and Policy Priorities] [WKOW News] [UW School of Medicine and Public Health Quarterly magazine]
Policy Impact: [Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services #1] [#2]
R Myerson, N Tilipman, A Feher, H Li, W Yin, I Menashe. Personalized telephone outreach increased health insurance take-up for hard-to-reach populations, but challenges remain. Health Affairs, 2022; 41:1: 129-137.
Coverage: [Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE)] [The Brookings Institution] [JPAL]
In the top 5 most-read Health Affairs articles for the year
J Sun, M Coca Perraillon, R Myerson. The impact of Medicare health insurance coverage on lung cancer screening. Medical Care, 2022; 60(1) 29-36.
K Mulligan, J Romley, R Myerson. Access to the 340B drug pricing program: is there evidence of strategic hospital behavior? BMC Research Notes, 2021; 14:228.
R Myerson, S Crawford, L Wherry. ACA Medicaid expansions increased preconception health counseling, folic acid intake, and effective postpartum contraception. Health Affairs, 2020; 39(11): 1883-1890.
Coverage: [U.S. News and World Report] [Health Payer Intelligence] [Center for Health Journalism] [Georgetown Center for Children and Families] [Medical News Today] [Robert Wood Johnson Foundation] [Prenatal to 3 Policy Roadmap]
R Myerson, S Crawford. Coverage for adults with chronic disease under the first five years of the Affordable Care Act. Medical Care, 2020; 58(10): 861-866.
Coverage: [Wisconsin Business] [Insurance News Net]
M Coca Perraillon, M Hamer, J Welton, R Myerson. Regression discontinuity designs. Nursing Economics, 2020; 38 (2): 98-102.
R Myerson, R Tucker-Seeley, D Goldman, D Lakdawalla. Does Medicare improve cancer detection and mortality outcomes? Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2020; 39 (3) 577-604. [NBER Working Paper] [HCEO Working Paper]
Coverage: [Brookings] [JPAM Closer Look Podcast] [Wisconsin Business] [Healthcare Economist]
T Lu, R Myerson. Disparities in health care coverage and access to care by English language proficiency, 2006-2016. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2020; 35: 1490-1497.
R Myerson, T Lu, Y Yuan, G Liu. Cancer diagnosis and care among rural-to-urban migrants in China. BMJ Global Health, 2019; 4: e001923.
R Myerson, T Lu, Y Yuan, G Liu. The impact of government income transfers on tobacco and alcohol use: Evidence from China. Economics Letters, 2019; 186: 108855.
R Myerson, J Romley, T Chiou, A Peters, D Goldman. The Affordable Care Act and health insurance coverage among people with diagnosed and undiagnosed diabetes: Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Diabetes Care, 2019 Sep; dc190081.
Coverage: [U.S. News and World Report] [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
T Chiou, Y Tsugawa, D Goldman, R Myerson, M Kahn, J Romley. Trends in racial and ethnic disparities in diabetes-related complications, 1997-2017. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2019.
R Myerson, T Lu, I Tonnu-Mihara, E Huang. Medicaid eligibility expansions may address gaps in access to diabetes medications. Health Affairs, 2018; 37(8) 1200-1207.
Coverage: [Washington Post (x2)] [Los Angeles Times] [Kaiser Health News] [Cited by State Senator & Gubernatorial Candidate Kathleen Vinehout] [Op-Ed published, Salt Lake Tribune] [WKOW Wisconsin]
R Myerson, L Colantonio, M Safford, E Huang. Does identification of previously undiagnosed conditions change care seeking behavior? Health Services Research, 2018; 53(3): 1517-1538.
E Brandt, R Myerson, M Coca Perraillon, T Polonsky. Cardiovascular event admissions before and after trans fatty acid restrictions in New York. JAMA Cardiology, 2017; 2(6): 627-634.
Coverage: [New York Times (x2)] [CBS News] [NBC Nightly News] [Reuters] [Associated Press]
C Olives, R Myerson, A Mokdad, CJL Murray, S Lim. Prevalence, awareness, treatment and control of hypertension in United States counties, 2001-2009. PLoS One, 2013; 8(4).
R Myerson, SM Makela, C Chandrasekhar, S Mathew, S Chakraborty. Determinants of condom uptake among HIV voluntary counselling and testing clients: experiences from a hospital-based study in south India. BMC Health Services Research, 2012; 12(13).
R Myerson, YB Hou, HZ Tang, Y Cheng, Y Wang, ZX Ye. Home and away: Chinese migrant workers between two worlds. The Sociological Review, 2010; 58(1): 26-44.
Editorials
R Myerson, L Dague. Identifying scalable strategies to maintain coverage as Medicaid continuous enrollment ends. Health Affairs Forefront, 2023.
J Birnbaum, K Cowling, K Foreman, N Fullman, P Gubbins, A Levin-Rector, S Makela, J Marcus, R Myerson, M Schneider. Skeptical optimism: a new take on global health data. The Lancet, 2009; 374(9703): 1730-1731.
Review Article
R Myerson, N Laiteerapong. The Affordable Care Act and diabetes care: Exploring the potential impacts. Current Diabetes Reports, 2016; 16(4): 27.
Book Chapter
R Myerson, T Lu, A Peters, S Fox, E Huang. "Impact of Health Insurance Policy on Diabetes Management." In A Delamater and D Marrero (Eds), Behavioral Diabetes: Ecological Perspectives for Pediatric and Adult Populations. 2020. New York, NY: Springer Press.