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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

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ORCID : 0000-0002-0795-5462

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

BU Sponsored Research

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 - 03/31/2021 (PI)
Laura and John Arnold Foundation

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

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Burke LG, Khullar D, Zheng J, Frakt AB, Orav EJ, Jha AK. Comparison of Costs of Care for Medicare Patients Hospitalized in Teaching and Nonteaching Hospitals. JAMA Netw Open. 2019 Jun 05; 2(6):e195229.View Related Profiles.
Jha, Ashish Kumar
Frakt, Austin
PMID: 31173121.
Yuan Y, Thomas KS, Frakt AB, Pizer SD, Garrido MM. Users Of Veteran-Directed Care And Other Purchased Care Have Similar Hospital Use And Costs Over Time. Health Aff (Millwood). 2019 Jun; 38(6):1037-1045.View Related Profiles.
Frakt, Austin
Garrido, Melissa
Pizer, Steven
PMID: 31158026.
Adelberg M, Frakt A, Polsky D, Strollo MK. Improving provider directory accuracy: can machine-readable directories help? Am J Manag Care. 2019 May; 25(5):241-245. PMID: 31120718.
Frakt A, Mehrotra A. What Type of Price Transparency Do We Need in Health Care? Ann Intern Med. 2019 Apr 02. PMID: 30934087.
Feyman Y, Figueroa JF, Polsky DE, Adelberg M, Frakt A. Primary Care Physician Networks In Medicare Advantage. Health Aff (Millwood). 2019 Apr; 38(4):537-544. PMID: 30933595.
Figueroa JF, Blumenthal DM, Feyman Y, Frakt AB, Turchin A, Doros G, Gao Q, Song Y, Joynt Maddox KE. Differences in Management of Coronary Artery Disease in Patients With Medicare Advantage vs Traditional Fee-for-Service Medicare Among Cardiology Practices. JAMA Cardiol. 2019 Feb 20.View Related Profiles.
Frakt, Austin
Doros, Gheorghe
PMID: 30785590.
Pearson E, Frakt A. Medical Scribes, Productivity, and Satisfaction. JAMA. 2019 Feb 19; 321(7):635-636. PMID: 30778589.
Frakt A, Sachs R. A Smarter Way to Provide Epinephrine at School. JAMA Pediatr. 2019 Feb 01; 173(2):130-132. PMID: 30575853.
Minegishi T, Frakt AB, Garrido MM, Gellad WF, Hausmann LRM, Lewis ET, Pizer SD, Trafton JA, Oliva EM. Randomized program evaluation of the Veterans Health Administration Stratification Tool for Opioid Risk Mitigation (STORM): A research and clinical operations partnership to examine effectiveness. Subst Abus. 2019; 40(1):14-19.View Related Profiles.
Frakt, Austin
Garrido, Melissa
Pizer, Steven
PMID: 30620691.
Pizer SD, Frakt AB, Sheetz K, Clancy C. Testing Novel Payment and Delivery Approaches Through the Veterans Health Administration's New Center for Innovation. Ann Intern Med. 2018 Dec 25.View Related Profiles.
Frakt, Austin
Pizer, Steven
PMID: 30583295.

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Pearson E, Frakt A. Administrative Costs and Health Information Technology. JAMA. 2018 Aug 14; 320(6):537-538. PMID: 30120464.
Frakt A, Miller M. The Case for Restructuring the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit. Health Serv Res. 2018 12; 53(6):4132-4137. PMID: 30069872.
Hanchate AD, Frakt AB, Kressin NR, Trivedi A, Linsky A, Abdulkerim H, Stolzmann KL, Mohr DC, Pizer SD. External Determinants of Veterans' Utilization of VA Health Care. Health Serv Res. 2018 12; 53(6):4224-4247.View Related Profiles.
Hanchate, Amresh
Linsky, Amy
Frakt, Austin
Mohr, David
Kressin, Nancy
Pizer, Steven
PMID: 30062781.
Chernew ME, Frakt AB. The Inevitable Math behind Entitlement Reform. N Engl J Med. 2018 Jul 19; 379(3):211-213. PMID: 30021098.
Frakt AB. The Risks and Benefits of Expedited Drug Reviews. JAMA. 2018 Jul 17; 320(3):225-226. PMID: 30027237.
Arcaya MC, Schnake-Mahl A, Binet A, Simpson S, Church MS, Gavin V, Coleman B, Levine S, Nielsen A, Carroll L, Ursprung S, Wood B, Reeves H, Keppard B, Sportiche N, Partirdge J, Figueora J, Frakt A, Alfonzo M, Abreu D, Abreu T, Ambroise T, Andrade E, Barrientos E, Baty A, Baty C, Benner K, Bennett C, Blanchette A, Bongiovanni R, Cardile O, Corchado C, Dixon C, Dodson C, Dominguez J, Durena M, Fiestas Y, Genty J, Graffam N, Gonzalez A, Grigsby E, Hayden P, Alvado SH, Hernandez Z, Hodes I, Johnson J, Keefe K, Latimer K, Levine S, Logg C, Martinez N, Mboup K, McPhorson D, Meacham S, Mohammed D, Moss E, Nielsen A, O'Brien K, Owens L, Partridge J, Johnson LP, Power MB, Rebelo T, Remy R, Roderigues G, Sabtow Q, Sanchez C, Seeder A, Sepulveda R, Sportiche N, Ursprung S, West E, Winters L, Wood B, Youmans T. Community change and resident needs: Designing a Participatory Action Research study in Metropolitan Boston. Health Place. 2018 07; 52:221-230. PMID: 30015179.
Minegishi T, Garrido MM, Pizer SD, Frakt AB. Effectiveness of policy and risk targeting for opioid-related risk mitigation: a randomised programme evaluation with stepped-wedge design. BMJ Open. 2018 06 27; 8(6):e020097.View Related Profiles.
Frakt, Austin
Garrido, Melissa
Pizer, Steven
PMID: 29950460.
Frakt AB, Chernew ME. Price Setting for Physician Services-Reply. JAMA. 2018 06 26; 319(24):2558-2559. PMID: 29946719.
Frakt AB, Prentice JC, Pizer SD, Elwy AR, Garrido MM, Kilbourne AM, Atkins D. Overcoming Challenges to Evidence-Based Policy Development in a Large, Integrated Delivery System. Health Serv Res. 2018 12; 53(6):4789-4807.View Related Profiles.
Elwy, A. Rani
Frakt, Austin
Prentice, Julia
Garrido, Melissa
Pizer, Steven
PMID: 29862494.
Minegishi T, Frakt A. Reducing Long-term Opioid Use in the Veterans Health Administration. J Gen Intern Med. 2018 Jun; 33(6):781-782. PMID: 29450685.
Burke L, Khullar D, Orav EJ, Zheng J, Frakt A, Jha AK. Do Academic Medical Centers Disproportionately Benefit The Sickest Patients? Health Aff (Millwood). 2018 06; 37(6):864-872.View Related Profiles.
Jha, Ashish Kumar
Frakt, Austin
PMID: 29863940.
Frakt AB, Carroll AE, Pollack HA, Humphreys K. The Rewards and Challenges of Writing for a Mass Media Audience. Health Serv Res. 2018 10; 53(5):3278-3284. PMID: 29722010.
Garrido MM, Frakt AB. Improving adherence to high-value medications through prescription cost-sharing policies. BMJ Qual Saf. 2018 11; 27(11):868-870.View Related Profiles.
Frakt, Austin
Garrido, Melissa
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.
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 02 20; 168(4):291-292.View Related Profiles.
Jha, Ashish Kumar
Frakt, Austin
PMID: 29181535.
Carroll AE, Frakt AB. Children's Health Must Remain a Focus in the Recovery From Hurricane Harvey. JAMA Pediatr. 2017 11 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 03; 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.
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
Garrido, Melissa
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.View Related Profiles.
Jha, Ashish Kumar
Frakt, Austin
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.View Related Profiles.
Jha, Ashish Kumar
Frakt, Austin
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;.
Bagley N, Chandra A, Frakt AB. Correcting Signals for Innovation in Health Care. The Hamilton Project, Brookings. 2015.
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, Piper M. Microeconomics Made Simple. Simple Subjects LLC. 2014.
Frakt AB. Waarom Piketty Lezen? [Why Read Piketty?] (Went R, ed.). Wat Te Lezen, En Waarom Dat Niet Piketty Is [What to read and why it’s not Piketty]. Amsterdam University Press. Amsterdam. 2014.
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. Almost Any Cost Is Catastrophic if You’re Poor. The New York Times. 2013.
Frakt AB. Are Health Insurers’ Administrative Costs Too High or Too Low?. Journal of the American Medical Association. 2013.
Frakt AB. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Projected Medicare Spending Growth. Journal of the American Medical Association. 2013.
Frakt AB. The Mandate Penalty May Be Large Enough. Journal of the American Medical Association. 2013.
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;.
Frakt AB. Can We Get Back to Health Policy Now? Looking at Health System Efficiency. Journal of the American Medical Association. 2012.
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. You Can/Can’t Take It With You: Obama and Romney on Portability of Health Insurance. Journal of the American Medical Association. 2012.
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;.
Frakt AB. The Tax Treatment of Health Insurance: Obama vs. Romney. Journal of the American Medical Association. 2012.
Frakt AB. Gaming out the New Medicaid Option. Journal of the American Medical Association. 2012.
Frakt AB. How Medicare Solves Private Plans’ Problems and Vice Versa. Journal of the American Medical Association. 2012.
Frakt AB. Medicare and the Year Ahead: Opportunities for Reform. Journal of the American Medical Association. 2012.
Frakt AB. What is the Economic Rationale for the Health Care Law’s Individual Mandate?. Journal of the American Medical Association. 2012.
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. Exchange Subsidies: Not Ready for Prime Time. The Washington Post. 2011.
Frakt AB, Carroll AE. In Defense of Health Care Regulation. The Washington Post. 2011.
Frakt AB. Health Reform by Hatchet or Scalpel?. The Washington Post. 2011.
Frakt AB. Health Reform by Hatchet or Scalpel?. The Washington Post. 2011.
Frakt AB. All-Payer Rate Setting and Health Reform’s Underpants Gnomes Strategy. The Washington Post. 2011.
Frakt AB. What’s the Best Model for a Remade Medicare?. The Washington Post. 2011.
Frakt AB. Can Competitive Bidding Be Part of a Medicare Compromise?. The Washington Post. 2011.
Frakt AB. Health Policy Tectonics. The Washington Post. 2011.
Frakt AB. GOP Medicare Privatization Plan Is Like Employer-Sponsored Insurance. And That’s Not a Good Thing. The Washington Post. 2011.
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;.
Frakt AB, Outterson K. After The Deluge: Health Reform Without An Individual Mandate. Kaiser Health News. 2011.
Frakt AB. Insurance Reform Is Not Cost Control. Kaiser Health News. 2011.
Frakt AB. The CBO Is Telling Us Something. Is Anybody Listening?. Kaiser Health News. 2011.
Frakt AB, Carroll A. How the Health Reform Game Has Changed. Kaiser Health News. 2010.
Frakt AB. Bloat? No Way. The New York Times. 2010.
Frakt AB. Health Care Cost Control Is Hard, and Humbling. Kaiser Health News. 2010.
Frakt AB, Santerre R. Competition on Access: A Role for Government in Health Care Markets. Kaiser Health News. 2010.
Frakt AB. Tomorrow’s Medicare: The Efficient Hybrid?. Kaiser Health News. 2010.
Frakt AB. For Cost Control, Vouchers and Medicare Don’t Mix. Kaiser Health News. 2010.
Frakt AB. Senate Dysfunction and Health Care Cost Control: In Private Sector We Trust?. Kaiser Health News. 2010.
Frakt AB. Slaughtering the Medicare Cash Cow. The New Republic. 2010.
Frakt AB. Massachusetts Mandates at Work. The New Republic. 2010.
Frakt AB. The Curve Will Be Bent. The New Republic. 2010.
Frakt AB. The ACA’s Achilles Heel. The New Republic. 2010.
Frakt AB. Dispatch from Massachusetts: The Individual Mandate is Working. Kaiser Health News. 2010.
Frakt AB. The Medicare 'Doc Fix': How to Make Political Lemonade. Kaiser Health News. 2010.
Frakt AB. Medicare Advantage: You Get What You Pay For. Kaiser Health News. 2010.
Frakt AB. The Decline Of Employer-Sponsored Coverage Under Health Reform: Good, Bad Or Ugly?. Kaiser Health News. 2010.
Frakt AB. The Health Care Cost Problem We Refuse To See. Kaiser Health News. 2010.
Frakt AB. The Hidden Costs of Publicly Financed Private Health Insurance. Kaiser Health News. 2010.
Frakt AB. Medicare Advantage Competitive Pricing: The Political Failure of a Good Idea. Kaiser Health News. 2010.
Frakt AB, Crosby IB. Popular But Ineffective: Repealing Insurers' Antitrust Exemption. Kaiser Health News. 2010.
Frakt AB, Pizer SD. Kaiser Health News. Lessons From Massachusetts: Campaigning Beats Governing Into Submission, Again. 2010.
Frakt AB. Is It Possible to Pass Responsible Legislation?. The New Republic. 2010.
Frakt AB. Health Economics: Theory, Insights, and Industry Studies (Rexford Santerre, Stephen Neun, eds.). Competitive and Market Power Elements in Medicare. Cengage Learning. South-Western. 2010.
Frakt AB. The future of health care costs: Hospital-insurer balance of power. National Institute for Health Care Management. 2010.
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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 132 publications over 18 distinct years, with a maximum of 25 publications in 2010

Bar chart showing 132 publications over 18 distinct years, with a maximum of 25 publications in 2010

Year	Publications
1998	1
2002	1
2003	1
2004	1
2005	2
2006	1
2008	4
2009	2
2010	25
2011	16
2012	12
2013	10
2014	5
2015	7
2016	7
2017	10
2018	18
2019	9

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