Amal Trivedi

About

Amal N Trivedi is a Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice, and a Professor of Medicine. He is a general internist and health services researcher whose work focuses on quality of care and healthcare disparities, with particular emphasis on the impact of patient and provider incentives on quality and equity of care. His research has been published in prominent journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and Health Affairs. Dr. Trivedi teaches on health policy issues to medical students and residents and offers a course on Quality Measurement and Improvement for graduate students.

Research topics

• Sociology
• Medicine
• Economics
• Economic growth
• Gerontology
• Political Science
• Gender studies
• Environmental health
• Business
• Internal medicine

Selected publications

• Effects Of Medicaid Expansion On Postpartum Coverage And Outpatient Utilization

  Health Affairs · 2020 · 90 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  Timely postpartum care is associated with lower maternal morbidity and mortality, yet fewer than half of Medicaid beneficiaries attend a postpartum visit. Medicaid enrollees are at higher risk of postpartum disruptions in insurance because pregnancy-related Medicaid eligibility ends sixty days after delivery. We used Medicaid claims data for 2013-15 from Colorado, which expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, and Utah, which did not. We found that after expansion, new mothers in Utah ex…

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• Assessment of Rural-Urban Differences in Postacute Care Utilization and Outcomes Among Older US Adults

  JAMA Network Open · 2020 · 89 citations

  Importance: Although people living in rural areas of the United States are disproportionately older and more likely to die of conditions that require postacute care than those living in urban areas, rural-urban differences in postacute care utilization and outcomes have been understudied. Objective: To describe rural-urban differences in postacute care utilization and postdischarge outcomes. Design, Setting, and Participants: This retrospective cohort study used data from Medicare beneficiaries…

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• Structural Racism, Historical Redlining, and Incidence of Kidney Failure in US Cities, 2012–2019

  Journal of the American Society of Nephrology · 2023 · 23 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT: Residing in neighborhoods designated as grade D (hazardous) by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC) under historical redlining-a discriminatory housing policy beginning in the 1930s-has been associated with present-day adverse health outcomes such as diabetes mortality. Historical redlining might underlie conditions in present-day neighborhoods that contribute to inequitable rates of kidney failure incidence, particularly for Black individuals, but its association wit…

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• Medicaid Expansion and 1-Year Mortality Among Young Adults Initiating Dialysis

  JAMA Pediatrics · 2026-05-11 · 1 citations

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  Importance: The Affordable Care Act (ACA) provided continued Medicaid coverage to US children transitioning into young adulthood, but whether expansion averted deaths among younger adults with kidney failure remains unclear. Objective: To examine the association of Medicaid expansion with 1-year mortality among young adults with kidney failure initiating dialysis. Design, Setting, and Participants: This cohort study using a quasi-experimental difference-in-differences design compared changes in…

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• Untangling Dialysis Received in a Nursing Home from Home Hemodialysis in the Community

  Journal of the American Society of Nephrology · 2026-04-02 · 1 citations

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Recent grants

• NIH Grant R01AG04437401

  NIH · $372k · 2016

• NIH Grant RC1AG036158

  NIH · $968k · 2012

• Risk-Adjusting Hospital Outcomes for Veteran's Socioeconomic Status

  NIH · 2017–2020

Frequent coauthors

• Vincent Mor

  Providence College

  375 shared

• Shailender Swaminathan

  154 shared

• David J. Meyers

  Brown University

  152 shared

• Maricruz Rivera‐Hernandez

  Providence College

  117 shared

• Momotazur Rahman

  Brown University

  112 shared

• Daeho Kim

  John Brown University

  93 shared

• Rebecca Thorsness

  VA Boston Healthcare System

  92 shared

• Kevin H. Nguyen

  Cole Engineering Services (United States)

  86 shared

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