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Fellow Spotlight: Daniel Johnson

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June 25, 2025 Daniel Johnson is a medical student at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, currently taking a gap year between his third and fourth years to conduct research in cardiology and health policy through the Sarnoff Cardiovascular Research Fellowship. He's working in the...

Medicare Program; Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems for Acute Care Hospitals and the Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System and Policy Changes and Fiscal Year 2024 Rates; Quality Programs and Medicare Promoting...

News: August 28, 2023

"...Patients with DES are one of the most vulnerable populations..." ( Mortality and Hospitalizations for Dually Enrolled and Nondually Enrolled Medicare Beneficiaries Aged 65 Years or Older, 2004 to 2017. JAMA)

Sharp Obesity Increase Since Pandemic in Black Youth

News: June 30, 2025

Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy

News: March 15, 2022

"...Dual-eligible beneficiaries also have higher mortality rates, so their providers can have worse results on the discharge to community measure..." (Mortality and hospitalizations for dually enrolled and nondually enrolled Medicare beneficiaries aged 65 years or older, 2004 to 2017. JAMA 2020)

Testimony to the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging by Jose F Figueroa, M.D., MPH

News: February 10, 2022

"...Because of these vulnerabilities, dual-eligible patients are much more likely to require hospital care, nursing home care, long-term care, and home-based care, and are unfortunately at increased risk for experiencing poor health outcomes..." ( Mortality and Hospitalizations for Dually Enrolled...

Statement of the Center for Medicare Advocacy in Hearing of the Senate Finance Committee on the topic of "A National Tragedy: COVID-19 in the Nation’s Nursing Homes”

News: March 17, 2021

"...Study after study documents that facilities without sufficient nursing staff have both more cases of COVID-19 and more deaths from the virus..." ( Association of Nursing Home Ratings on Health Inspections, Quality of Care, and Nurse Staffing With COVID-19 Cases. JAMA 2020.)

Patient healthcare spending after the No Surprises Act: quasi-experimental difference-in-differences study

Publication: Journal Article

Liu, Michael, Kushal T Kadakia, Stephen A Mein, and Rishi K Wadhera. 2025. “Patient Healthcare Spending After the No Surprises Act: Quasi-Experimental Difference-in-Differences Study”. The BMJ.

Outcomes of Endovascular Revascularization for Chronic Limb-Threatening Ischemia in Medicare Advantage and Medicare Fee-For-Service Beneficiaries

Publication: Journal Article

Dangas, Katerina, Joseph M Kim, Siling Li, Yang Song, Andrew S Oseran, Robert W Yeh, Rishi K Wadhera, and Eric A Secemsky. 2025. “Outcomes of Endovascular Revascularization for Chronic Limb-Threatening Ischemia in Medicare Advantage and Medicare Fee-For-Service Beneficiaries”. Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes.

High-Risk Areas-The Trees in the Forest-Reply

Publication: Journal Article

Liu, Michael, and Rishi K. Wadhera. 2025. “High-Risk Areas-The Trees in the Forest-Reply”. JAMA Cardiology.

Fellow Spotlight: Meet our 2025 Fellows!

News: October 01, 2025

As the academic year begins, we are excited to introduce five exceptional new fellows who have joined the Health Policy Section at the Smith Center. These medical students and fellows bring a range of experiences...