Joseph Newhouse

About

Joseph P. Newhouse is the John D. MacArthur Research Professor of Health Policy and Management at Harvard University. He is a member of the faculties of the Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard Medical School, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, as well as a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Dr. Newhouse holds B.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Economics from Harvard University and has received an honorary doctoral degree from the Pardee RAND Graduate School. His early academic pursuits included being a Fulbright Scholar in Germany. He spent the first twenty years of his career at RAND, where he designed and directed the RAND Health Insurance Experiment and served as Head of the RAND Economics Department. He was also the founding editor of the Journal of Health Economics, which he edited for 30 years. His research and contributions focus on health policy, health economics, and health services research, with numerous leadership roles in professional organizations and advisory committees, including election to the National Academy of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Research topics

• Medicine
• Family medicine
• Computer Science
• Computer Security
• Actuarial science
• Finance
• Marketing
• Nursing
• Internal medicine
• Business

Selected publications

• Identifying Medicare beneficiaries with dementia

  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2021 · 91 citations

  BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: No data exist regarding the validity of International Classification of Disease (ICD)-10 dementia diagnoses against a clinician-adjudicated reference standard within Medicare claims data. We examined the accuracy of claims-based diagnoses with respect to expert clinician adjudication using a novel database with individual-level linkages between electronic health record (EHR) and claims. DESIGN: In this retrospective observational study, two neurologists and two psychiatris…

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• Measuring the Scope of Prior Authorization Policies

  JAMA Health Forum · 2021 · 59 citations

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  Importance: Health insurers use prior authorization to evaluate the medical necessity of planned medical services. Data challenges have precluded measuring the frequency with which medical services can require prior authorization, the spending on these services, the types of services and clinician specialties affected, and differences in the scope of prior authorization policies between government-administered and privately administered insurance. Objectives: To measure the extent of prior autho…

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• Benzodiazepine Utilization in Ischemic Stroke Survivors: Analyzing Initial Excess Supply and Longitudinal Trends

  Stroke · 2024-10-17 · 9 citations

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  BACKGROUND: Benzodiazepines are commonly prescribed for post-acute ischemic stroke for anxiety, insomnia, and agitation. While guidelines discourage use in those aged ≥65 years, little is known about prescription patterns at the national level. METHODS: We analyzed a 20% sample of US Medicare claims from April 1, 2013, to September 30, 2021. We selected beneficiaries aged ≥65 years discharged alive following an acute ischemic stroke who had traditional Medicare coverage and 6 months' prior enrol…

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• Evaluating the concordance between International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision Code and stroke severity as measured by the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale

  BMJ Neurology Open · 2024-10-01 · 6 citations

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  Background: The National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) scores have been used to evaluate acute ischaemic stroke (AIS) severity in clinical settings. Through the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision Code (ICD-10), documentation of NIHSS scores has been made possible for administrative purposes and has since been increasingly adopted in insurance claims. Per Centres for Medicare & Medicaid Services guidelines, the stroke ICD-10 diagnosis code must be documented by t…

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• County-Level Enrollment in Medicare Advantage Plans Offering Expanded Supplemental Benefits

  JAMA Network Open · 2024-09-17 · 5 citations

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  Importance: Since 2019 and 2020, Medicare Advantage (MA) plans have been able to offer supplemental benefits that address long-term services and supports (LTSS) and social determinants of health (SDOH). Objective: To examine the temporal trends and geographic variation in enrollment in MA plans offering LTSS and SDOH benefits. Design, Setting, and Participants: This cross-sectional study used publicly available data to examine changes in beneficiary enrollment and plan offerings of LTSS and SDOH…

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Recent grants

• NIH Grant R01HS006414

  NIH · $226k · 1991

• Medicare at a Crossroads

  NIH · $60.5M · 2009–2030

• NIH Grant P01HS010803

  NIH · $7.9M · 2006

Frequent coauthors

• John Hsu

  Massachusetts General Hospital

  235 shared

• Vicki Fung

  Harvard University

  104 shared

• Sharon‐Lise T. Normand

  Harvard University

  85 shared

• Mary Price

  Massachusetts General Hospital

  77 shared

• Robert H. Brook

  60 shared

• Alan M. Zaslavsky

  Harvard University

  60 shared

• Lidia M.V.R. Moura

  Harvard University

  58 shared

• Harry P. Selker

  52 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Economics

  Harvard University

  1969

• B.A., Economics

  Harvard College

  1963

Awards & honors

• David N. Kershaw Award and Prize of the Association for Publ…
• Baxter Health Services Research Prize (1988)
• AHSR’s Distinguished Investigator Award (1992)
• Swiss’ Hans Sigrist Foundation Prize (1995)
• American Risk and Insurance Association’s Elizur Wright Awar…

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