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Randall P. Ellis

Randall P. Ellis

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
39
Citations
9662
World Ranking
5545
National Ranking
2625

Overview

Randall P. Ellis is affiliated with Boston University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of medicine, economics, and health professions. Their research spans multiple subfields, including economics and econometrics, general health professions, surgery, health information management, and epidemiology.

Their work primarily focuses on topics such as healthcare policy and management, peripheral artery disease management, healthcare cost, quality, and practices, health systems with economic evaluations and quality of life considerations, primary care and health outcomes, medical coding and health information, and chronic disease management strategies.

Randall P. Ellis has been published in a variety of notable venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Vascular Surgery
  • JAMA Network Open
  • JAMA Health Forum
  • World Development Perspectives
  • Medical Care Research and Review

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Randall P. Ellis include:

  • "Diagnostic Category Prevalence in 3 Classification Systems Across the Transition to the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification", 2020, JAMA Network Open
  • "Development and Assessment of a New Framework for Disease Surveillance, Prediction, and Risk Adjustment", 2022, JAMA Health Forum

In addition to their independent work, Randall P. Ellis has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Jeffrey J. Siracuse
  • Alik Farber
  • Scott R. Levin
  • Jayakanth Srinivasan
  • Arlene S. Ash

Their research contributions cover a range of interdisciplinary topics linking economics and medicine, with a strong emphasis on healthcare systems and disease management. Their work on peripheral artery disease and healthcare cost and quality reflects intersections between clinical research and health economics.

Best Publications

  • Provider behavior under prospective reimbursement. Cost sharing and supply.

    Randall P. Ellis;Thomas G. McGuire

  • Risk adjustment of Medicare capitation payments using the CMS-HCC model

    Gregory C. Pope;John Kautter;Randall P. Ellis;Arlene S. Ash

  • Creaming, skimping and dumping: provider competition on the intensive and extensive margins.

    Randall P. Ellis

  • Risk Adjustment in Competitive Health Plan Markets

    Wynand P.M.M.;Van De Ven;Randall P. Ellis

  • Supply-side and demand-side cost sharing in health care.

    Randall P. Ellis;Thomas G. McGuire

  • Optimal payment systems for health services.

    Randall P. Ellis;Thomas G. McGuire

  • Diagnosis-based risk adjustment for Medicare capitation payments.

    Randall P. Ellis;Gregory C. Pope;Lisa I. Iezzoni;John Z. Ayanian

  • Using Diagnoses to Describe Populations and Predict Costs

    Arlene S. Ash;Randall P. Ellis;Gregory C. Pope;John Z. Ayanian

  • Hospital response to prospective payment: moral hazard, selection, and practice-style effects.

    Randall P. Ellis;Thomas G. McGuire

  • Principal inpatient diagnostic cost group model for Medicare risk adjustment.

    Gregory C. Pope;Randall P. Ellis;Arlene S. Ash;Chuan-Fen Liu

  • Health Care Spending and Quality in Year 1 of the Alternative Quality Contract

    Zirui Song;Dana Gelb Safran;Bruce E Landon;Yulei He

  • Refinements to the Diagnostic Cost Group (DCG) model

    Randall P. Ellis;Arlene S. Ash

  • A decision model and cost-effectiveness analysis of colorectal cancer screening and surveillance guidelines for average-risk adults.

    Rezaul K. Khandker;Jane D. Dulski;Jeffrey B. Kilpatrick;Randall P. Ellis

  • Predicting pharmacy costs and other medical costs using diagnoses and drug claims.

    Yang Zhao;Arlene S. Ash;Randall P. Ellis;John Z. Ayanian

  • Predictability and predictiveness in health care spending.

    Randall P. Ellis;Thomas G. McGuire

  • Finding future high-cost cases: comparing prior cost versus diagnosis-based methods.

    Ash As;Zhao Y;Ellis Rp;Schlein Kramer M

  • Social Determinants of Health in Managed Care Payment Formulas.

    Arlene S. Ash;Eric O. Mick;Randall P. Ellis;Catarina I. Kiefe

  • Health care demand elasticities by type of service

    Randall P. Ellis;Bruno Martins;Wenjia Zhu

  • The impact of financing and quality changes on health care demand in Niger.

    Mukesh Chawla;Randall P Ellis

  • The consequences of adult ill-health.

    Over M;Ellis Rp;Huber Jh;Solon O

  • Measuring population health risks using inpatient diagnoses and outpatient pharmacy data.

    Yang Zhao;Randall P. Ellis;Arlene S. Ash;David Calabrese

  • Using Diagnoses to Describe Populations and Predict Costs

    Arlene Ash;Randall P. Ellis;Gregory Pope;John Ayanian

Frequent Co-Authors

Willard G. Manning
Willard G. Manning University of Chicago
Melissa A. Clark
Melissa A. Clark Brown University
Jeroan J. Allison
Jeroan J. Allison University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Michael E. Chernew
Michael E. Chernew Harvard University

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