Research Brown Bag: Health Insurance, Costs, and Care Utilization with Dr. Betsy Q. Cliff
Join us for a discussion of new research examining the impact of medical debt relief on health care utilization and health outcomes, and what these findings reveal about costs, access, and policy design in the U.S. health system.
Impact of Medical Debt Relief on Healthcare Utilization and Health
Authors: Betsy Q. Cliff, Kirsten Eom, Joseph D. Bruch
Dr. Betsy Q. Cliff is an assistant professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Chicago whose work examines how health insurance impacts spending and utilization in the US health system. She is currently working on projects related to determinants of Medicaid retention, the impacts of patient health care costs on care utilization and health outcomes, and how the design of health insurance affects the use of high- and low-value health care services. She primarily uses quasi-experimental research designs and econometric statistical techniques to measure the effects of policies or interventions. Often, her data come from large databases with medical and pharmaceutical claims from health insurers. Prior to pursuing her research career, she was a journalist and reported on health care policy for newspapers and magazines for nearly a decade.
February 13 | 12pm | Harper Center C02
