Publication

An article in MarketWatch by Brett Arends highlights a recent study on Medicare Advantage, led by Dr. Lawrence Casalino, senior advisor at the Center, Dr. Amelia Bond, associate professor of population health sciences at Weill Cornell Medical College (WCM), and Dr. Dhruv Khullar, the Center’s director and associate professor of population health sciences at WCM.  Arends goes […]

Teams of health care providers called Accountable Care Organizations participating in the Medicare Shared Savings Program have saved Medicare between $4.1 billion and $8.1 billion from 2012 through 2019, according to a new study from Weill Cornell Medicine investigators.  Launched in 2012, the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) was established through the Affordable Care Act.

In a new Viewpoint for JAMA, Dr. Dhruv Khullar, the Center’s director, and associate professor of population health sciences at Weill Cornell Medical College, Dr. Amelia Bond, associate professor of population health sciences at Weill Cornell Medical College, and Dr. Lawrence Casalino, senior advisor at the Center examine practices within the Medicare Advantage (MA) plans

The cover story of the Minnesota Medicine, titled “First, do no (administrative) harm” by Mary Hoff, focused on the adverse consequences of administrative burdens on clinicians and patients. Dr. Dhruv Khullar, the Center’s director, and an associate professor of population health sciences at Weill Cornell Medical College, was interviewed for the story and discussed the challenge of physician burnout,

In an article published in The New Yorker, Dr. Dhruv Khullar, the Center’s director, and an associate professor of population health sciences at Weill Cornell Medical College, navigates readers through the complexities of the U.S. health care system. He highlights the gamification and corporatization of medicine that have left many patients, providers, and caregivers struggling. Dr. Khullar delved further into these

In a first-of-its-kind study published in JAMA Health Forum, Dr. Lawrence Casalino, senior advisor at the Center, and colleagues investigated the relationship between physician altruism, health care quality, and medical spending. The study found that patients of altruistic physicians were less likely to experience avoidable hospitalizations or emergency department visits, and had lower overall health care spending. The study was also featured in

An article in Medical Economics by Richard Payerchin highlights the recent telehealth study led by Dr. Jiani Yu, assistant professor of population health sciences at Weill Cornell Medical College (WCM), Dr. Dhruv Khullar, the Center’s director and assistant professor of population health sciences at WCM, and colleagues, which finds that telehealth use remains strong in primary

In an article published in The New Yorker, Dr. Dhruv Khullar, the Center’s director, and an associate professor of population health sciences at Weill Cornell Medical College, investigates the growing role of artificial intelligence in drug discovery. The piece examines the strengths and limitations of new machine-learning technologies, and what they could mean for the future of pharmaceutical research. Dr. Khullar

In a first-of-its-kind study, Weill Cornell Medicine researchers found that female physicians, primary care physicians, psychiatrists and physicians in non-rural areas delivered relatively higher proportions of visits via telehealth. This national analysis may provide key information for policymakers to consider as COVID-19 provisions for expanded Medicare telehealth coverage are set to expire at the end