Austin B. Frakt, PhD
Research Professor
Boston University School of Public Health
Dept of Health Law, Policy & Management

PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology




Austin Frakt, Ph.D., is a Health Economist and Director of the Partnered Evidence-based Policy Resource Center at the Boston VA Healthcare System. He is also an Associate Professor affiliated with the Boston University School of Public Health; a Visiting Associate Professor with the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; and an Adjunct Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute, University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Frakt is an Editor-in-Chief and a primary author of the evidence-based health policy blog The Incidental Economist. He is a regular contributor on health policy topics to The New York Times’ The Upshot and the Journal of the American Medical Association Forum.
Dr. Frakt is a senior associate editor for Health Services Research and serves on the editorial board of the American Journal of Managed Care. He is chair of the AcademyHealth Translation and Dissemination Institute Advisory Committee and is a member of the New England Comparative Effectiveness Public Advisory Council.
Dr. Frakt has conducted research studies funded by the Department of Veterans Affairs, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The Commonwealth Fund, and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. His work has been published in The New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, Milbank Quarterly, Health Care Financing Review, Health Affairs, Health Economics, Health Services Research, International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, among other journals.
Dr. Frakt received his Ph.D. from the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department of Massachusetts Institute of Technology in statistical and applied mathematics. He also received a master’s degree from MIT, and his bachelor’s degree from Cornell University in Applied and Engineering Physics.

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




Health Economics and Health Services Research Planning and Support
05/01/2016 - 08/31/2021 (SP Co-PI of Sub-Project / SP)
PI: David Henderson, MD
VA Boston Healthcare System


Detection of Unethical Substance Use Disorder Treatment Providers
11/02/2018 - 03/31/2021 (Co-PI)
PI: Melissa Garrido, PhD
Laura and John Arnold Foundation


Translation and Dissemination of Health Policy-Relevant Research
04/20/2018 - 07/31/2020 (PI)
Laura and John Arnold Foundation


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


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




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  1. Nikpay S, Pungarcher I, Frakt A. An Economic Perspective on the Affordable Care Act: Expectations and Reality. J Health Polit Policy Law. 2020 Oct 01; 45(5):889-904. PMID: 32589202
     
  2. Figueroa JF, Wadhera RK, Frakt AB, Fonarow GC, Heidenreich PA, Xu H, Lytle B, DeVore AD, Matsouaka R, Yancy CW, Bhatt DL, Joynt Maddox KE. Quality of Care and Outcomes Among Medicare Advantage vs Fee-for-Service Medicare Patients Hospitalized With Heart Failure. JAMA Cardiol. 2020 Sep 02. PMID: 32876650
     
  3. Yee CA, Pizer SD, Frakt A. Medicare's Bundled Payment Initiatives for Hospital-Initiated Episodes: Evidence and Evolution. Milbank Q. 2020 Sep; 98(3):908-974.View Related Profiles. PMID: 32820837
     
  4. Pearson E, Frakt A. Health Care Cost Growth Benchmarks in 5 States. JAMA. 2020 Aug 11; 324(6):537-538. PMID: 32780131
     
  5. Frakt AB, Jha AK, Glied S. Pivoting from decomposing correlates to developing solutions: An evidence-based agenda to address drivers of health. Health Serv Res. 2020 Aug 10.View Related Profiles. PMID: 32776528
     
  6. Figueroa JF, Frakt AB, Jha AK. Addressing Social Determinants of Health: Time for a Polysocial Risk Score. JAMA. 2020 Apr 28; 323(16):1553-1554.View Related Profiles. PMID: 32242887
     
  7. Burke LG, Frakt AB. Considering differential trends in opioid-related harm. Addiction. 2020 08; 115(8):1593-1594. PMID: 32045046
     
  8. Chernew ME, Conway PH, Frakt AB. Transforming Medicare's Payment Systems: Progress Shaped By The ACA. Health Aff (Millwood). 2020 Mar; 39(3):413-420. PMID: 32119623
     
  9. Frakt AB, Oberlander J. Challenges To Medicare For All Remain Daunting. Health Aff (Millwood). 2020 01; 39(1):142-145. PMID: 31905071
     
  10. Burke LG, Zhou X, Boyle KL, Orav EJ, Bernson D, Hood ME, Land T, Bharel M, Frakt AB. Trends in opioid use disorder and overdose among opioid-naive individuals receiving an opioid prescription in Massachusetts from 2011 to 2014. Addiction. 2020 03; 115(3):493-504.View Related Profiles. PMID: 31691390
     
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Bar chart showing 147 publications over 19 distinct years, with a maximum of 25 publications in 2010

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The New York Times 8/13/2018

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The New York Times 7/30/2018

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The New York Times 7/16/2018

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Sometimes Patients Simply Need Other Patients

The New York Times 7/9/2018

America Has A Health Care Gap, And Insurance Alone Won’t Fix It

The Huffington Post 6/23/2018

Can Low-Intensity Care Solve High Health Care Costs?

The New York Times 6/11/2018

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The Connection Between Retiring Early and Living Longer

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A Memory Shortcut, With a Little Help From Friends

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Why the U.S. Spends So Much More Than Other Nations on Health Care

The New York Times 1/2/2018
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