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Austin B. Frakt, PhD

Associate Professor

Boston University School of Public Health

Dept of Health Law, Policy & Management

PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
SM, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Visiting Associate Professor
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

BU Sponsored Research

Health Economics and Health Services Research Planning and Support
05/01/2016 - 04/30/2020 (SP Co-PI of Sub-Project / SP)
PI: David Henderson, MD
VA Boston Healthcare System

Personnel agreement for research service of Austin Frakt
05/01/2013 - 04/30/2014 (PI)
Boston VA Research Institute, Inc. AcademyHealth

Personnel agreement for research services of Austin Frakt
12/01/2011 - 11/30/2012 (PI)
Boston VA Research Institute, Inc. Comm of Pennsylvania

Yr	Title	Project-Sub Proj	Pubs

Publications listed below are automatically derived from MEDLINE/PubMed and other sources, which might result in incorrect or missing publications. Faculty can login to make corrections and additions.

Garrido MM, Frakt AB. Improving adherence to high-value medications through prescription cost-sharing policies. BMJ Qual Saf. 2018 Apr 19. PMID: 29674484.

Frakt AB. How the Economy Affects Health. JAMA. 2018 Mar 27; 319(12):1187-1188. PMID: 29584830.

Brennan N, Ornstein C, Frakt AB. Time to Release Medicare Advantage Claims Data. JAMA. 2018 Mar 13; 319(10):975-976. PMID: 29459940.

Minegishi T, Frakt A. Reducing Long-term Opioid Use in the Veterans Health Administration. J Gen Intern Med. 2018 Feb 15. PMID: 29450685.

Frakt AB, Chernew ME. The Importance of Relative Prices in Health Care Spending. JAMA. 2018 Feb 06; 319(5):441-442. PMID: 29302693.

Frakt AB, Garthwaite C. The CVS-Aetna Merger: Another Large Bet on the Changing U.S. Health Care Landscape. Ann Intern Med. 2018 Apr 03; 168(7):511-512. PMID: 29310130.

Frakt AB, Jha AK. Face the Facts: We Need to Change the Way We Do Pay for Performance. Ann Intern Med. 2018 Feb 20; 168(4):291-292. PMID: 29181535.

Carroll AE, Frakt AB. Children's Health Must Remain a Focus in the Recovery From Hurricane Harvey. JAMA Pediatr. 2017 Nov 01; 171(11):1029-1030. PMID: 28915293.

Lyon ZM, Feyman Y, Johnson GM, Frakt AB. Quality of provider-offered Medicare Advantage plans. BMJ Qual Saf. 2018 Mar; 27(3):247-250. PMID: 29066615.

Frakt AB, Bagley N. Why It's So Hard for Insurers to Compete Over Technology. JAMA. 2017 Aug 22; 318(8):687-688. PMID: 28829860.

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Garrido MM, Allman RM, Pizer SD, Rudolph JL, Thomas KS, Sperber NR, Van Houtven CH, Frakt AB. Innovation in a Learning Health Care System: Veteran-Directed Home- and Community-Based Services. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2017 Nov; 65(11):2446-2451.View Related Profiles.

Frakt, Austin
Pizer, Steven

PMID: 28832927.

Figueroa JF, Frakt AB, Lyon ZM, Zhou X, Jha AK. Characteristics and spending patterns of high cost, non-elderly adults in Massachusetts. Healthc (Amst). 2017 Dec; 5(4):165-170. PMID: 28676155; DOI: 10.1016/j.hjdsi.2017.05.001;.

Burke LG, Frakt AB, Khullar D, Orav EJ, Jha AK. Association Between Teaching Status and Mortality in US Hospitals. JAMA. 2017 May 23; 317(20):2105-2113. PMID: 28535236.

Frakt AB, Trafton J, Pizer SD. The association of mental health program characteristics and patient satisfaction. Am J Manag Care. 2017 May 01; 23(5):e129-e137.View Related Profiles.

Frakt, Austin
Pizer, Steven

PMID: 28810128.

McIntyre A, Bagley N, Frakt AB, Carroll AE. The Dubious Empirical and Legal Foundations of Workplace Wellness Programs. Health Matrix: A Journal of Law and Medicine. 2017; 27(1):59-80.

Johnson G, Lyon ZM, Frakt A. Provider-Offered Medicare Advantage Plans: Recent Growth And Care Quality. Health Aff (Millwood). 2017 Mar 01; 36(3):539-547. PMID: 28264957; DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2016.0722;.

Sachs RE, Frakt AB. Innovation-Innovation Tradeoffs in Drug Pricing. Ann Intern Med. 2016 Dec 20; 165(12):871-872. PMID: 27723887; DOI: 10.7326/M16-2167;.

Frakt AB. Determining Value and Price in Health Care. JAMA. 2016 Sep 13; 316(10):1033-4. PMID: 27623450; DOI: 10.1001/jama.2016.10922;.

Frakt AB. The Cost of Medicare Advantage. JAMA. 2016 Jun 14; 315(22):2387-8. PMID: 27299607; DOI: 10.1001/jama.2016.6790;.

Frakt AB. We Can't All Have It All: The Economic Limits of Pharmaceutical Innovation. JAMA. 2016 May 10; 315(18):1936-7. PMID: 27163973; DOI: 10.1001/jama.2016.5047;.

Prentice JC, Frakt AB, Pizer SD. Metrics That Matter. J Gen Intern Med. 2016 Apr; 31 Suppl 1:70-3.View Related Profiles.

Frakt, Austin
Prentice, Julia
Pizer, Steven

PMID: 26951272; PMCID: PMC4803674; DOI: 10.1007/s11606-015-3559-0;.

Wagner TH, Burstin H, Frakt AB, Krein SL, Lorenz K, Maciejewski ML, Pizer SD, Weiner M, Yoon J, Zulman DM, Asch SM. Opportunities to Enhance Value-Related Research in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. J Gen Intern Med. 2016 Apr; 31 Suppl 1:78-83.View Related Profiles.

Frakt, Austin
Pizer, Steven

PMID: 26951279; PMCID: PMC4803679; DOI: 10.1007/s11606-015-3538-5;.

Frakt AB, Pizer SD. The promise and perils of big data in healthcare. Am J Manag Care. 2016 Feb; 22(2):98-9.View Related Profiles.

Frakt, Austin
Pizer, Steven

PMID: 26885669; PMCID: PMC4758464.

Frakt AB. Learning About Competition From the UK's National Health Service. JAMA. 2015 Aug 11; 314(6):547-8. PMID: 26262785; DOI: 10.1001/jama.2015.9195;.

Frakt AB, Bagley N. Protection or harm? Suppressing substance-use data. N Engl J Med. 2015 May 14; 372(20):1879-81. PMID: 25875196; DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1501362;.

Frakt AB. An observational study goes where randomized clinical trials have not. JAMA. 2015 Mar 17; 313(11):1091-2. PMID: 25781429; DOI: 10.1001/jama.2015.0544;.

Frakt AB, Trafton J, Pizer SD. Maintenance of access as demand for substance use disorder treatment grows. J Subst Abuse Treat. 2015 Aug; 55:58-63.View Related Profiles.

Frakt, Austin
Pizer, Steven

PMID: 25795602; PMCID: PMC4456245; DOI: 10.1016/j.jsat.2015.02.009;.

Frakt AB, Hanchate A, Pizer SD. The effect of Medicaid expansions on demand for care from the Veterans Health Administration. Healthc (Amst). 2015 Sep; 3(3):123-8.View Related Profiles.

Hanchate, Amresh
Frakt, Austin
Pizer, Steven

PMID: 26384222; DOI: 10.1016/j.hjdsi.2015.02.004;.

Frakt AB. Hospital consolidation isn't the key to lowering costs and raising quality. JAMA. 2015 Jan 27; 313(4):345. PMID: 25626023; DOI: 10.1001/jama.2014.17412;.

McWilliams JM, Dalton JB, Landrum MB, Frakt AB, Pizer SD, Keating NL. Geographic variation in cancer-related imaging: Veterans Affairs health care system versus Medicare. Ann Intern Med. 2014 Dec 2; 161(11):794-802.View Related Profiles.

Frakt, Austin
Pizer, Steven

PMID: 25437407; PMCID: PMC4251705; DOI: 10.7326/M14-0650;.

Frakt A. High-tech care can save lives--but it also may create incentives that result in lives lost. JAMA. 2014 Nov 26; 312(20):2081. PMID: 25423204; DOI: 10.1001/jama.2014.14531;.

Frakt A. Improving health through coverage expansion. Ann Intern Med. 2014 May 6; 160(9):649-50. PMID: 24798527; DOI: 10.7326/M14-0379;.

Frakt AB. The end of hospital cost shifting and the quest for hospital productivity. Health Serv Res. 2014 Feb; 49(1):1-10. PMID: 24102445; DOI: 10.1111/1475-6773.12105;.

Frakt AB, Trafton J, Wallace A, Neuman M, Pizer S. Directed funding to address under-provision of treatment for substance use disorders: a quantitative study. Implement Sci. 2013; 8:79.View Related Profiles.

Frakt, Austin
Pizer, Steven

PMID: 23866119; PMCID: PMC3722030; DOI: 10.1186/1748-5908-8-79;.

Carroll AE, Frakt AB. New evidence supports, challenges, and informs the ambitions of health reform. JAMA. 2013 Jun 26; 309(24):2600-1. PMID: 23797767; DOI: 10.1001/jama.2013.7685;.

Frakt AB, Pizer SD, Feldman R. Plan-provider integration, premiums, and quality in the Medicare Advantage market. Health Serv Res. 2013 Dec; 48(6 Pt 1):1996-2013.View Related Profiles.

Frakt, Austin
Pizer, Steven

PMID: 23800017; DOI: 10.1111/1475-6773.12076;.

Carroll AE, Frakt AB. Medicaid expansion: good for children, their parents, and providers. JAMA Pediatr. 2013 Jun; 167(6):511-2. PMID: 23608955; DOI: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2013.2104;.

Frakt AB, Carroll AE. The quality imperative: a commentary on the U.S. healthcare system. Am J Prev Med. 2013 Jan; 44(1 Suppl 1):S22-6. PMID: 23195161; DOI: 10.1016/j.amepre.2012.09.010;.

Carroll AE, Frakt AB. The health policy election. JAMA. 2012 Oct 24; 308(16):1633-4. PMID: 23060272.

Frakt AB, Carroll AE. Sound policy trumps politics: states should expand Medicaid. J Health Polit Policy Law. 2013 Feb; 38(1):165-78. PMID: 23052687; DOI: 10.1215/03616878-1898839;.

Frakt AB, Mayes R. Beyond capitation: how new payment experiments seek to find the 'sweet spot' in amount of risk providers and payers bear. Health Aff (Millwood). 2012 Sep; 31(9):1951-8. PMID: 22949443; DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2012.0344;.

Aaron HJ, Frakt AB. Why now is not the time for premium support. N Engl J Med. 2012 Mar 8; 366(10):877-9. PMID: 22276779; DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1200448;.

Frakt AB, Pizer SD, Feldman R. The effects of market structure and payment rate on the entry of private health plans into the Medicare market. Inquiry. 2012; 49(1):15-36.View Related Profiles.

Frakt, Austin
Pizer, Steven

PMID: 22650015.

Iezzoni LI, Frakt AB, Pizer SD. Uninsured persons with disability confront substantial barriers to health care services. Disabil Health J. 2011 Oct; 4(4):238-44.View Related Profiles.

Frakt, Austin
Pizer, Steven

PMID: 22014671; DOI: 10.1016/j.dhjo.2011.06.001;.

Frakt AB, Pizer SD, Feldman R. Should Medicare adopt the Veterans Health Administration formulary? Health Econ. 2012 May; 21(5):485-95.View Related Profiles.

Frakt, Austin
Pizer, Steven

PMID: 21506191; DOI: 10.1002/hec.1733;.

Frakt A, Carroll AE, Pollack HA, Reinhardt U. Our flawed but beneficial Medicaid program. N Engl J Med. 2011 Apr 21; 364(16):e31. PMID: 21470001; DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1103168;.

Frakt AB. How much do hospitals cost shift? A review of the evidence. Milbank Q. 2011 Mar; 89(1):90-130. PMID: 21418314; PMCID: PMC3160596; DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0009.2011.00621.x;.

Hendricks A, Gardner J, Frakt A, Gilden D, Prentice J, Wolfsfeld L, Pizer S. What can Medicaid data add to research on VA patients? J Rehabil Res Dev. 2010; 47(8):773-80.View Related Profiles.

Hendricks, Ann
Frakt, Austin
Prentice, Julia
Pizer, Steven

PMID: 21110251.

Frakt AB, Pizer SD. Beneficiary price sensitivity in the Medicare prescription drug plan market. Health Econ. 2010 Jan; 19(1):88-100.View Related Profiles.

Frakt, Austin
Pizer, Steven

PMID: 19191252; DOI: 10.1002/hec.1451;.

Pizer SD, Frakt AB, Iezzoni LI. Uninsured adults with chronic conditions or disabilities: gaps in public insurance programs. Health Aff (Millwood). 2009 Nov-Dec; 28(6):w1141-50.View Related Profiles.

Frakt, Austin
Pizer, Steven

PMID: 19843552; DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.28.6.w1141;.

Frakt AB, Pizer SD, Feldman R. Payment reduction and Medicare private fee-for-service plans. Health Care Financ Rev. 2009; 30(3):15-24.View Related Profiles.

Frakt, Austin
Pizer, Steven

PMID: 19544932.

Frakt AB, Pizer SD, Hendricks AM. Controlling prescription drug costs: regulation and the role of interest groups in Medicare and the Veterans Health Administration. J Health Polit Policy Law. 2008 Dec; 33(6):1079-106.View Related Profiles.

Hendricks, Ann
Frakt, Austin
Pizer, Steven

PMID: 19038872; DOI: 10.1215/03616878-2008-032;.

Pizer SD, Frakt AB, Feldman R. Nothing for something? Estimating cost and value for beneficiaries from recent medicare spending increases on HMO payments and drug benefits. Int J Health Care Finance Econ. 2009 Mar; 9(1):59-81.View Related Profiles.

Frakt, Austin
Pizer, Steven

PMID: 18821013; DOI: 10.1007/s10754-008-9047-x;.

Frakt AB, Pizer SD. Attribute substitution in early enrollment decisions into Medicare prescription drug plans. Health Econ. 2008 Apr; 17(4):513-21.View Related Profiles.

Frakt, Austin
Pizer, Steven

PMID: 17935198.

Pizer SD, Frakt AB, Feldman R. Predicting risk selection following major changes in Medicare. Health Econ. 2008 Apr; 17(4):453-68.View Related Profiles.

Frakt, Austin
Pizer, Steven

PMID: 17557273.

Frakt AB, Pizer SD. A first look at the new Medicare prescription drug plans. Health Aff (Millwood). 2006 Jul-Aug; 25(4):W252-61.View Related Profiles.

Frakt, Austin
Pizer, Steven

PMID: 16720588.

Pizer SD, Feldman R, Frakt AB. Defective design: regional competition in Medicare. Health Aff (Millwood). 2005 Jul-Dec; Suppl Web Exclusives:W5-399-411.View Related Profiles.

Frakt, Austin
Pizer, Steven

PMID: 16118247.

Frakt AB, Pizer SD, Schmitz RJ, Mattke S. Voluntary partial capitation: the Community Nursing Organization Medicare demonstration. Health Care Financ Rev. 2005; 26(4):21-37.View Related Profiles.

Frakt, Austin
Pizer, Steven

PMID: 17288066.

Frakt AB, Pizer SD, Wrobel MV. High-Risk Pools for Uninsurable Individuals: Recent Growth, Future Prospects. Health Care Financ Rev. 2004; 26(2):73-87.View Related Profiles.

Frakt, Austin
Pizer, Steven

PMID: 25372064.

Pizer SD, Frakt AB, Feldman R. Payment policy and inefficient benefits in the Medicare+Choice program. Int J Health Care Finance Econ. 2003 Jun; 3(2):79-93.View Related Profiles.

Frakt, Austin
Pizer, Steven

PMID: 14640068.

Pizer SD, Frakt AB. Payment policy and competition in the Medicare+Choice program. Health Care Financ Rev. 2002; 24(1):83-94.View Related Profiles.

Frakt, Austin
Pizer, Steven

PMID: 12545600.

Frakt AB, Karl WC, Willsky AS. A multiscale hypothesis testing approach to anomaly detection and localization from noisy tomographic data. IEEE Trans Image Process. 1998; 7(6):825-37. PMID: 18276296; DOI: 10.1109/83.679425;.

This graph shows the total number of publications by year, by first, middle/unknown, or last author.

Bar chart showing 62 publications over 17 distinct years, with a maximum of 10 publications in 2017

Bar chart showing 62 publications over 17 distinct years, with a maximum of 10 publications in 2017

Year	Publications
1998	1
2002	1
2003	1
2004	1
2005	2
2006	1
2008	4
2009	2
2010	2
2011	4
2012	5
2013	6
2014	3
2015	6
2016	7
2017	10
2018	6

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