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Seth Freedman

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Research areas:
Methods Econometrics and Data Management
Policy Analysis
Public Finance and Economics
Social Policy and Health
Areas of Interest:
Health economics
Healthcare delivery
Public health insurance
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Education

  • Ph.D., University of Maryland, 2010
  • M.A., University of Maryland, 2009
  • B.A., Johns Hopkins University, 2005

Courses

  • Health Policy
  • Health Economics for Policy and Management
  • Statistics for Research in Public Affairs II

Biography

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Curriculum Vitae

Seth Freedman specializes in health economics and health policy. He joined O’Neill in 2012 after two years as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in Health Policy Research at the University of Michigan.

Freedman’s primary research agendas focus on healthcare provider decision making and the role of public health insurance. He is particularly interested in the impacts of innovations and changes in the healthcare delivery system on economic and patient outcomes, the influence of policies and market incentives on the adoption and use of healthcare technologies, and how recent changes in public health insurance impact the healthcare system.

His research has been published in journals such as Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Public Economics, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Journal of Health Economics, American Journal of Health Economics, Health Affairs, and Annals of Emergency Medicine. His research has been funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Freedman teaches courses in health policy, health economics, and statistical research methods, and he was awarded the Trustees Teaching Award in 2019. 



Highlights

  • 2023 Trustees Teaching Award
  • Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research Fellowship, University of Michigan
  • 2019 Trustees Teaching Award
  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Dissertation Fellowship
  • Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship, University of Maryland
  • NET Institute Summer Research Grant

Selected Works

  • “Strategic use of health information exchange and market share, payer mix, and operating margins,” (with Joshua Ryan Vest; Mark Unruh; Abdulaziz Bako; Kosali Simon), Health Care Management Review, (2022)

  • “Docs with their Eyes on the Clock? The Effect of Time Pressures on Primary Care Productivity”, (with Ezra Golberstein, Tsan-Yao Huang, David Satin, and Laura Barrie Smith) Journal of Health Economics, 77: Article 102442 (2021)

  • “Observational Studies of the Effect of Medicaid on Health: Controls Are Not Enough” (with Andrew Goodman-Bacon and Noah Hammarlund), Journal of Labor Economics, 39(S2): S619-S650 (2021).

  • “How Have Recent Health Insurance Expansions Affected Coverage Among Artist Occupations in the United States?” (with Joanna Woronkowicz, Aparna Soni, and Kosali Simon), Journal of Cultural Affairs, 44: 117-154 (2020)

  • “Electronic Medical Records and Medical Procedure Choice: Evidence from Cesarean Sections”, (with Noah Hammarlund) Health Economics, 28(10): 1179-1193 (2019)

  • “Health Systems' Use of Enterprise Health Information Exchange vs Single Electronic Health Record Vendor Environments and Unplanned Readmissions” (with J. Vest, M. Unruh, and K. Simon), Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 26(10): 4491-4506 (2019)

  • “Do Crowdsourced Hospital Ratings Coincide with Hospital Compare Measures of Clinical and Non-Clinical Quality?” (with V. Perez), Health Services Research, 53(6): 4491-4506 (2018)

  • “Learning from Waiver States: Coverage Effects Under Indiana’s HIP Medicaid Expansion,” (with L. Richardson and K. Simon), Health Affairs, 37(6): 936-943 (2018)

  • “Information Technology and Patient Health: Analyzing Outcomes, Populations, and Mechanisms,” (with H. Lin and J. Prince), American Journal of Health Economics, 4(1): 51-79 (2018)

  • “Impact of the ACA Medicaid Expansion on Emergency Department Visits: Evidence from State-Level Emergency Department Databases,” (with S. Nikpay, H. Levy, and T. Buchmueller),  Annals of Emergency Medicine, 70(2): 215-225 (2017)

  • “Capacity and Utilization in Health Care: The Effect of Empty Beds on Neonatal Intensive Care Admission,” American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 8(2): 154-185. (2016)

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