Using HCCI data to Study Issues Relating to the Efficiency of the US HealthCare System

DATE: April 4, 2016 to April 30, 2021

To support Grantee's efforts to form an economic research consortium that will conduct research on the efficiency of the U.S. health care system and produce tools to promote best practices, with the overall goal of improving health care delivery by providing patients with information to make value-based decisions about health care.

Investigator

Amy Finkelstein Profile
Amy Finkelstein, Principal Investigator

Amy Finkelstein is the John and Jennie S. MacDonald Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the co-founder and Co-Scientific Director of the Jameel Poverty Action Lab-North America. Her research interests focus on public finance and health economics, particularly market failures and government intervention in insurance and health care markets. She has been an NBER affiliate since 2001.

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