The Department of Health Policy and Management prides itself on the research conducted by our faculty, staff and students. Their hard work is reflected in the number of publications credited to the department across a spectrum of research areas that have influenced decisions and policy at the local, state and federal levels of government. Below is a selection.
- Callaway Kim, Roberts, Donohue, Sabik, Good, Devine, ... & Suda (2025, November). Adherence, Switches, and Drug Spending After Angiotensin Receptor Blocker Recalls and Shortages. In JAMA Health Forum.
- Yaver (2025). Administrative Burdens and Inequities in COBRA Take‐Up. World Medical & Health Policy.
- Krauland, Mandell, Williams, Zimmerman, & Roberts (2026). An agent-based model of the effects of limited vaccination on novel respiratory infections. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology.
- Denny, Deputy, Abouk, Dunkley, Drake, Kim, ... & Rose (2025). Alcohol Consumption During Pregnancy and State Implementation of Legal Nonmedical Cannabis Retail Sales in the United States, 2011 to 2023. American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
- Albert, Ohwobete, McCartney, Hughes, Haig, Fabisiak, ... & Toto (2026). Assessing Home Environmental Hazards for Older Adults Receiving In-Home Supportive Services: The Healthy Homes Assessment Tool (H-HAT). Innovation in Aging.
- Jarlenski, LoCiganic, Chen, Pudasainy, Donohue, Cole, & Krans (2025). Association between buprenorphine dose and outcomes among pregnant persons with opioid use disorder. American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology.
- Pelzman, Sharbaugh, Sabik, Lin, Pere, Vajravelu, ... & Jacobs (2025). Association of health care policy and trends in cancer screening during the COVID-19 pandemic. Cancer Epidemiology.
- Kwon, Roberts, Degenholtz, Jacobs, & Sabik (2025). Association of Medicare eligibility with access to and affordability of care among older cancer survivors. Journal of Cancer Survivorship.
- Marks, Rudd, Sharbough, Kim, Essien, Gifford, ... & Donohue (2026). B40-10 High Levels of Opioid Use Disorder and Low Rates of Treatment in Critically Ill Medicaid Beneficiaries in Eight States. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.
- Jalal, Kang, Alarid-Escudero, Kumar, Garibay-Trevino, Jacobs, ... & CISNET Bladder Cancer Modeling Investigators. (2026). Bladder Cancer Burden in the USA: Population Scenarios for 2040. European Urology Open Science.
- Mulligan, Anderson, & Drake (2026). Brokering a new path: navigating administrative burdens in the health insurance Marketplaces. Health Affairs Scholar.
- Degenholtz, Lampenfeld, Kastner, Yauch, Mentch, Szymanski, ... & Albert (2026). Can age-friendly communities also be disability friendly: What do surveys of older adults and people with disabilities tell us?. Journal of Applied Gerontology.
- Donahoe, Sabik, & Check (2025). Cannabis policy and cancer pain management: An urgent need to increase the evidence base. Cancer.
- Greene & Savitz (2026). Catching the Wave: AI In Health Services Research. Learning Health Systems.
- Doran-Brubaker, Brown-Podgorski, Drake, Mair, & Cole (2025). Changes in access and health outcomes after the introduction of a new FQHC in the United States.
- Cai, Schwartz, McMahon, Schlenk, Kazakoff, Degenholtz, ... & Dunbar-Jacob (2026). Clinical Course Development on Age-Friendly Health Systems 4Ms Care in Nursing Homes. Journal of Nursing Education.
- Bilden, Lamperski, Kumar, Savitz, & Roberts (2025, October). Constructing a Qualitatively Informed Agent-Based Simulation Model to Improve Access to Medication for OUD Patients and Stakeholder Preferences and Engagement. In MEDICAL DECISION MAKING.
- Aviña, Kreider, & Degenholtz (2025). The Cost of Direct Care Workforce Instability: Economic and Health Impacts of High Turnover in Pennsylvania. Innovation in Aging.
- Yaver (2026). Coverage Denied: How Health Insurers Drive Inequality in the United States.
- Xue, Yin, Cole, Lo‐Ciganic, Gellad, Donohue, & Tang (2025). Development and evaluation of a machine learning model to predict acute care for opioid use disorder among Medicaid enrollees engaged in a community‐based treatment program. Addiction.
- Smith, Park, & Levy (2025). Development and usability testing of a tool to estimate the budget impact of implementing a smoking cessation intervention for cancer patients. Cancer Causes & Control.
- Ray, Wittman, Lipstein, Sabik, Vajravelu, & Yabes (2026). Disparities in Predicted and Parent-Reported Need for Pediatric Subspecialty Care. Academic Pediatrics.
- Alameddine, Wu, Orikogbo, Sharbaugh, Sabik, Obiora, ... & Jacobs (2025, August). Disparities in radiation treatment modality for prostate cancer. In Urologic Oncology: Seminars and Original Investigations.
- Li, Donohue, & Tang (2026). Distributed fusion R-learner of heterogeneous treatment effect using distributed Medicaid data. Biometrics.
- Casas, Kiyanda, Olson, Jarlenski, Mairson, McClure, ... & Méndez (2026). Doulas as Facilitators to Black Birthing People’s Needs in Pennsylvania in the Context of Medicaid Coverage. Health Equity.
- Degenholtz, Zionts, Treat, Campbell, & Dickson (2025). Effect of the Teaching Nursing Home on Nursing Home Staff Satisfaction. Innovation in Aging.
- Zionts, Reifsnyder, Franke, Dickson, Campbell, & Degenholtz (2026). Enhancing Academic–Practice Partnerships With Age-Friendly Health Systems: Overview of the Revisiting the Teaching Nursing Home Pilot Initiative (2021 to 2023). Journal of Gerontological Nursing.
- Choi, Karg, Singh, Hu, Faieta, Hughes, ... & Handler (2025). Enhancing Fall Prevention in Public Senior Housing Through Smart Home Safety Technology. Innovation in Aging.
- Jaffe, Velez-Bermudez, Loor, Bryce, Sok, Zhu, ... & Myaskovsky (2025). Enhancing Kidney Transplant Evaluation: Barriers and Facilitators to Conducting the Access to Kidney Transplant in Minority Populations (AKT-MP) Trial. American Journal of Transplantation.
- Krauland, Mandell, & Roberts (2025). Estimated burden of influenza and direct and indirect benefits of influenza vaccination. JAMA Network Open.
- DeVoss, Bradley, Lindrooth, Sabik, & Perraillon (2026). Estimating True Patient Cost-Sharing Burden: Multi-Payer Claim Reconciliation in an All-Payer Claims Database. Medical Care Research and Review.
- Mentch, Kastner, & Degenholtz (2025). Evaluating the Impact of Managed Long-Term Services and Supports on HCBS Providers: Findings from a Seven Wave Survey. Innovation in Aging.
- Sabik & Tsui (2026). Evolving Medicaid Policy and Implications for High-Quality Cancer Care. Journal of Clinical Oncology.
- France, Smith, Hawk, Creasy, & Bryce (2025, October). Examining the Cost-effectiveness of a Client-centered Representative Payee Intervention for Antiretroviral Therapy Adherence: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial Health Services, Outcomes and Policy Research. In MEDICAL DECISION MAKING.
- Bilden, Roberts, Stein, & Jones (2025). Examining the impact of eliminating the X waiver on buprenorphine dispensation in 63 counties in Pennsylvania. Substance use & addiction journal.
- Case, Sabik, & Grant (2026). Factors associated with long COVID among cancer survivors: A population-based analysis. Cancer Epidemiology.
- Madhavaram, Wu, Sharbaugh, Zhang, Sabik, Marchetti, ... & Jacobs (2025). Factors Associated With Readmission to Index vs. Non‐Index Hospitals After Major Cancer Surgery. Cancer Medicine.
- Rak, Bourne, Barnes, Ober, Sun, Chang, ... & Sabik (2025). Factors Influencing Rural Hospitals’ Decisions To Join An Alternative Payment Model: A Mixed-Methods Study: Article examines factors influencing decisions of Pennsylvania rural hospitals to participate in an alternative payment model.Health Affairs.
- Posluszny, Bovbjerg, Nezu, Syrjala, Sabik, Sereika, ... & Dew (2026). Fostering Patient-Family Caregiver Teamwork in Self-Management of the Medical Regimen After Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation. Psycho-oncology (Chichester, England).
- Yaver (2026). From Flexibility to Forced Alignment: The One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s Reshaping of Medicaid Federalism. Publius: The Journal of Federalism.
- Bhuyan & Broom (Eds.). (2025). Fundamentals of Healthcare Management: Theory and Practice.
- Whitman, Sudakar, Sabik, & Schenker (2026). Geographic Access to Hospices with High Quality Ratings. Journal of Palliative Medicine.
- Whitman, Nagy, Sudakar, Drake, Sabik, & Schenker (2026). Geographic and Sociodemographic Disparities in Access to Hospice in Pennsylvania. American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine®.
- Drake, Sharbaugh, Nagy, Ahrens, Allen, Barnes, ... & Williams (2025, June). Geographic Availability and Use of Medications for Opioid Use Disorder Among Medicaid Enrollees in 9 States. In 2025 Annual Research Meeting.
- Fried, Hughes, Singh, & Toto (2025). Home Safe and Smart: a pilot program integrating smart technology and home modifications for aging in place. Innovation in Aging.
- Kwon, Roberts, Degenholtz, Jacobs, Sabik, & Cole (2025). Housing-Related disparities in receipt of breast cancer screening among women Medicaid beneficiaries. JCO Oncology Practice.
- Smith, Van Groningen, Lich, Sima, Shugart, Glesmann, ... & Wright (2025, October). Identifying what considerations drive tobacco policymaking decisions using best-worst scaling Patient and Stakeholder Preferences and Engagement. In MEDICAL DECISION MAKING.
- Anderson, Nagy, & Drake (2026). Impact of expansive catastrophic plan eligibility on 2026 Marketplace enrollment. Health Affairs Scholar.
- Gogola, Zeng, Williams, Chapple‐McGruder, Saeed, Lopresti, ... & Cohen (2025). Impact of racialization on neuroimaging and plasma biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer's & Dementia.
- Degenholtz, Zionts, Treat, Schlenk, Kitt-Lewis, Gold, ... & Dickson (2025). Impact of the Teaching Nursing Home on Nursing Student’s Willingness to Work in Long-Term Care. Innovation in Aging.
- Sabik, Whitman, Bourne, Sun, Roberts, Yabes, ... & Jacobs (2026). Impacts of a Rural Hospital Global Budget Alternative Payment Model on Patterns of Cancer Surgery. Medical Care.
- McInerney, Mellor, Pelnik, & Sabik (2025). Implications of the Growth of Defined Contribution Retirement Plans for Safety Net Eligibility: The Case of Dual Eligibility for Medicare and Medicaid. Journal of aging & social policy.
- Galea & Donohue (2026, January). In Search of Pharmaceutical Policy Innovation in the US. In JAMA Health Forum.
- Van Nostrand, Johnston, Roberts, Albert, & Buchanich (2025). Indiana Adults Who Participated In Treatment Court Programs Had Better Health Outcomes Than Those Who Did Not: Article examines outcomes for adults who participated in Indiana drug treatment court programs. Health Affairs.
- Wilson, Donahoe, Herzig, & Anderson (2025). Industry Payments to Physicians During Medical Specialty Society Conferences: Wilson et al. Journal of General Internal Medicine.
- Kwon, Aoki, Jazowski, Hu, Dusetzina, Sabik, ... & Zheng (2025). Insurance denials of cancer care: Insights from Medicare claims appeals.
- Smith, Doan, Yuan, & Cruden (2025). Integrating decision science and implementation science to inform policy decision-making. MDM Policy & Practice.
- Leland, Cole, Hurwitz, Lam, Wong, & Patterson (2025). The intersection of Physical Disability and Homelessness: A Community-Engaged Research Initiative. Innovation in Aging.
- Whitman, Jacobs, Yabes, Schenker, & Sabik (2026). IP60-06 THE IMPACT OF FOR-PROFIT HOSPICE PROVIDERS ON END-OF-LIFE CARE FOR PROSTATE CANCER DECEDENTS. The Journal of Urology.
- Kumar, Ruhl, Chiddarwar, Garibay-Treviño, Chowdhury, Osei, ... & Jalal (2025). Long-term Trends in Bladder Cancer Incidence Using a Harmonized Staging Variable: A SEER-Based Study. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention.
- Kilaru, Donohue, & Galea (2025, October). A look ahead for health policy and health services research. In JAMA Health Forum.
- Shen, Yang, Wolff, Reckrey, Kreider, & Miller (2026). Medicaid funds direct care for one in four dual-eligible older adults nationally, but state variation is 4-fold. Health Affairs Scholar.
- Dow, Santostefano, Hughes, Stettenbauer, Shireman, Donohue, ... & Hughto (2025). Medicaid prescription cap policies and acute care use and mortality among enrollees with opioid use disorder. Drug and alcohol dependence.
- Marks, Rudd, Bachireddy, Donohue, Angus, Iwashyna, & Barnes (2025). Medicaid's role in critical care after Medicaid expansion: evidence from Virginia. Health Affairs Scholar.
- Drake, Tran, & Eisenberg (2025). Medical Cannabis Certifications After Pennsylvania Added Anxiety Disorders as a Qualifying Condition. Annals of Internal Medicine.
- Santostefano, Hughto, Donohue, Shireman, Andrews, Rosales, ... & Dow (2026, May). Medication and Acute Care Use in Young Adults With Opioid Use Subject to Medicaid Prescription Caps. In JAMA Health Forum.
- Singh, Whaley, & Donahoe (2026). More Than Methadone Dispensers: The Authors Reply: More Than Methadone Dispensers: The Authors Reply. Health Affairs.
- Frankeberger, Coulter, Jarlenski, Krans, & Mair (2025). Multilevel Factors Associated With Hospitalizations in the First-Year Postpartum Among Persons With Opioid Use Disorder. Substance use & addiction journal.
- Schmitz, Baker, Werts-Pelter, Doerksen, Patterson, Ahmed, ... & Kumar (2025). Nurse AMIE randomized controlled trial to address symptom management among rural advanced Cancer patients: Addressing malignancies in everyday life. Contemporary Clinical Trials.
- Smith, Cruz, Gannon, & Mazzucca-Ragan (2026). Participatory systems modeling in implementation research: Exploring benefits, facilitators, and future needs. Journal of Clinical and Translational Science.
- Kyle, Feng, Wade, & Yaver (2025). Patient administrative burden: a scoping review. Health Affairs Scholar.
- Zhou, Sabik, & Thomas (2026). Patient Self-Advocacy is Associated with Emergency Department Visits and Supportive Care in Advanced Cancer. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management.
- Hughes & James (2025). A policy update on home environmental hazard assessment and remediation in Medicare and Medicaid. Environmental Research Communications.
- Bruzelius, Prins, Bates, Underhill, Jarlenski, & Martins (2025). Prenatal drug use criminalization and health system avoidance: Evidence from births in Alabama, South Carolina, and Tennessee, 1989-2019. Social Science & Medicine.
- Kim, Donohue, Roberts, Good, Sabik, & Suda (2025). Prescriber-Level Responses to the 2018–2019 Valsartan, Irbesartan, and Losartan Recalls and Drug Shortages: A National Study. Medical Care.
- Degenholtz (2025). Presidential Symposium: Looking Over the Horizon: States as the Laboratory for Policy Innovations. Innovation in Aging.
- Singh, Cantor, Whaley, Shuey, Bilden, & Donahoe (2025). Private Equity Acquiring Large Shares Of The Opioid Treatment Market Without Changing Market-Level Methadone Supply: Article examines private equity ownership in the opioid treatment market and supply of methadone. Health Affairs.
- Donohue, Wang, Tang, Kim, Junker, Cole, ... & Kennedy (2026). Racial and ethnic differences in medications for opioid use disorder and overdose in 11 state Medicaid programs from 2016 to 2020. Journal of Substance Use and Addiction Treatment.
- Brown-Podgorski, Barinas-Mitchell, Magnani, & Jarlenski (2025, October). Racialized Income Inequality, the Cardiovascular Disease Continuum, and Black-White Disparities in Premature Mortality Among US Adult Women. In Journal of Women's Health.
- Sundermann, Kumar, Griffith, Waggle, Rangachar Srinivasa, Raabe, ... & Harrison (2026). Real-time genomic surveillance for enhanced healthcare outbreak detection and control: clinical and economic impact. Clinical Infectious Diseases.
- Donahoe, Krawczyk, Donohue, Nagy, & Joudrey (2025). Restrictive State Opioid Treatment Program Regulations Constrain Local Access To Methadone Maintenance Treatment: Article examines the role of state restrictions on access to methadone maintenance treatment. Health Affairs.
- Hughes, Choi, Pearlman, Toto, James, & Handler (2025). Smart Home Safety Technology in Medicaid LTSS: A Policy Review of HCBS Waiver Coverage. Innovation in Aging.
- Ma, Drake, Simon, & Wen (2026). State Comprehensive Opioid Prescribing Limits Associated With Reduced Opioid-Related Hospitalizations And ED Visits: Article examines opioid-related hospitalizations and ED visits. Health Affairs.
- Jarlenski (2025, August). State Policy Changes and Unconditional Cash Transfers to Improve Maternal and Child Health. In JAMA Health Forum.
- Walker-Peddakotla & Chapple-McGruder (2025). The State Visibility of Maternal Death. Univ. of Wisconsin Legal Studies Research Paper.
- Donahoe, Wilson, & Anderson (2026). Stimulant Marketing Analysis Lacks Much Needed Context—Reply. JAMA pediatrics.
- Kilaru, Donohue, & Galea (2025, November). Study designs and methods for health policy and health services research: a look back, a look ahead. In JAMA Health Forum.
- Smith, Cruz, Grummon, Ng, Hall, Frerichs, & Lich (2026). Sugar-sweetened beverage warning labels and taxes: simulated impacts when considering implementation. American journal of preventive medicine.
- Clark, Kass, & Degenholtz (2025). Supplemental oxygen payments and equipment utilization in a low-income population with ILD or COPD. CHEST Pulmonary.
- Bhuyan, Rai, & Broom (2025). Systems thinking in healthcare. In Fundamentals of Healthcare Management: Theory and Practice.
- Jarman & Yaver (2026). The Tariff Trap: Why Funding Health Programs Through Tariffs Harms Both Health and Democracy. World Medical & Health Policy.
- Diana, Gelmon, Broom, Landry, Oetjen, & Ullmann (2026). Transforming accreditation in health management education: A stakeholder-driven call to action. Journal of Health Administration Education.
- Donahoe, Wilson, & Anderson (2025). Trends in industry marketing of stimulants to physicians and advanced practice clinicians. JAMA Pediatrics.
- Greer, Jarman, Kulikoff, & Yaver (2025). Trump's second presidency begins: evaluating effects on the US health system. The Lancet Regional Health–Americas.
- Jarlenski & Krans (2025). Understanding buprenorphine treatment for opioid use disorder in real-world data. American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology.
- Bradley & Sabik (2026). Unwinding Progress—Medicaid Cuts and the Future of Cancer Care. JAMA Oncology.
- Jarlenski (2025). The Upended Politics of Abortion in the United States: New Directions for Health Policy Research. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law.
- Degenholtz, Sharbaugh, Xue, Semple, Li, & Kastner (2025). The Use of Mental Health Services by Dually-Eligible Nursing Home Residents. Innovation in Aging.
- Posluszny, Bovbjerg, Nezu, Syrjala, Sabik, Sereika, ... & Dew (2026). A User-Centered Design Approach to Optimize Medical Regimen Self-Management by Patients and Family Caregivers After Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation (HCT). Annals of Behavioral Medicine.
- Donahoe & Drake (2025). When do supply-side drug control policies save lives? Evidence from pharmacy methadone restrictions. Journal of Health Economics.
- Anderson, Nagy, & Drake (2025). Will expanding catastrophic coverage eligibility increase marketplace premium affordability in 2026?. Health Affairs Scholar.