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.
“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)
