Marisa Domino
· Executive Center Director and ProfessorArizona State University · Biomedical Diagnostics
Active 1994–2025
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About
Marisa Domino is a Professor and the Executive Director of the Center for Health Information and Research (CHiR) at the College of Health Solutions, Arizona State University. She earned her PhD in health economics from The Johns Hopkins University and completed a Post-doctoral Fellowship at Harvard Medical School’s Department of Health Care Policy. With decades of experience, her research primarily focuses on analyzing Medicaid and other health policies using advanced econometric and statistical techniques, with particular attention to individuals with mental illness, substance use disorders, or other chronic conditions. Dr. Domino’s work emphasizes the efficiency of healthcare policies for low-income populations, and she has extensive expertise working with large administrative databases from various health insurance programs, especially Medicaid. Her research investigates the effects of Medicaid program design on behavioral health and chronic illness outcomes, and she has received funding from multiple agencies including NIDA, NIMH, AHRQ, RWJF, and NARSAD. Recognized for her contributions, she has received awards such as the 2013 ISPOR Award for Excellence in Application of Pharmacoeconomics and Health Outcomes Research, the 2017 Edward G. McGavran Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the 2021 Willard Manning Award from the Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics. Her scholarly activities include editorial roles in prominent journals and active participation in…
Research topics
- Family medicine
- Nursing
- Political Science
- Medicine
- Medical emergency
- Environmental health
- Gerontology
- Business
- Psychiatry
Selected publications
The Economics of Treatment for Depression
Annual Review of Public Health · 2023-12-15 · 34 citations
articleOpen accessSenior authorThe global prevalence of depression has risen over the past three decades across all socioeconomic groups and geographic regions, with a particularly rapid increase in prevalence among adolescents (aged 12-17 years) in the United States. Depression imposes large health, economic, and societal costs, including reduced life span and quality of life, medical costs, and reduced educational attainment and workplace productivity. A wide range of treatment modalities for depression are available, but s…
JAMA · 2025-02-27 · 23 citations
articleSenior authorImportance: Health-related social needs are drivers of worse health and high health care spending. In North Carolina Medicaid's 1115 waiver, the Healthy Opportunities Pilots (HOP) program allows for nonmedical services to address health-related social needs, such as healthy food boxes and housing navigation, financed by Medicaid, in 3 regions of North Carolina. Objective: To determine whether individual participation in the HOP program is associated with lower Medicaid spending. Design, Setting,…
Enhanced Primary Care for People With Serious Mental Illness
The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry · 2023-03-30 · 5 citations
articleOpen accessObjective: People with serious mental illness (SMI) have high rates of cardiometabolic illness, receive low quality care, and experience poor outcomes. Nevertheless, studies of existing integrated care models have not consistently shown improvements in cardiometabolic health for people with SMI. This study assessed the effect of a novel model of enhanced primary care for people with SMI on cardiometabolic outcomes. Enhanced primary care is a model of integrated care wherein comprehensive primary…
Digital Health · 2024-01-01 · 2 citations
articleOpen accessSenior authorIntroduction: The COVID-19 pandemic necessitated a major expansion in telemedicine use. The continued use of telemedicine post-pandemic has the potential to enhance healthcare use for people at risk for sub-optimal healthcare access and utilization, such as patients with previous preventable hospitalization. This study analyzed the association between pre-pandemic preventable hospitalizations (PPHs) and telemedicine use during the pandemic. Methods: This retrospective cohort study uses Medicaid…
Preoperative Care Intensity and Cost for Renal Colic: Implications for Surgical Value-Based Reforms
Urology Practice · 2024-10-02 · 2 citations
articleINTRODUCTION: The aim of this study was to identify preoperative patient/facility factors associated with postoperative and total episode-related costs using renal colic as a model surgical condition to improve value-based payment models. METHODS: Using state Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project data, we performed a retrospective cohort study examining perioperative costs for individuals presenting to an emergency department for renal colic and who ultimately underwent definitive surgical man…
Recent grants
Research Training in Mental Health Services and Systems
NIH · $5.0M · 1990–2018
NIH · $738k · 2008
Frequent coauthors
- 88 shared
J Morrissey
- 58 shared
John S. March
Yale University
- 58 shared
Barbara J. Burns
Duke University
- 57 shared
Susan G. Silva
- 55 shared
Christopher J. Kratochvil
Nebraska Medical Center
- 54 shared
Benedetto Vitiello
Ospedale Regina Margherita
- 51 shared
Mark A. Reinecke
- 49 shared
E. Michael Foster
Heartlands Hospital
Labs
Center for Health Information and Research (CHiR)PI
Education
Ph.D., Health Economics
Johns Hopkins University
Other, Mental Health Policy and Economics
Harvard Medical School
B.S., Public Administration
University of Arizona
Awards & honors
- NIMH K01 Career Development Award on “Influences of the Diff…
- ISPOR Award for Excellence in Application of Pharmacoeconomi…
- AcademyHealth Best Abstract, Behavioral Health, for “Expedit…
- Edward G. McGavran Award for Excellence in Teaching, UNC Sch…
- Willard Manning Award from the Journal of Mental Health Poli…
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