Daniel Polsky, PhD
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Health Policy and Economics, Johns Hopkins University Carey School of Business and Department of Health Policy and Management, Bloomberg School of Public Health
Dr. Polsky is the 40th Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins University. He holds tenured appointments in both the Bloomberg School Public Health and the Carey School of Business. Before joining Hopkins in 2019, he was the Robert D. Eilers Professor of Health Care Management and Professor of Medicine in the Wharton School and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. From 2012-2019, he was Executive Director of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics where he led 300 senior fellows and their $110 million in research grants addressing the health care system challenges of quality of care, care delivery transformation towards value, care access, and equity. His research has advanced the understanding of the cost and quality tradeoff of interventions whether they are changes to large federal programs or local programs. His contributions have been to the methods of analysis and to advancing the policies of access, coverage, and payment. Dr. Polsky has explored the disparities and coverage and access challenges for minority and low-income populations throughout his career.
He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and currently serves on the National Academy of Medicine’s Board of Population Health and the Health and Medicine Committee that oversees the NAM Boards. He serves on the Congressional Budget Office’s Panel of Health Advisers and was the senior economist on health issues at the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. He was co-director of the Policy Core for The Center for Health Economics of Treatment Interventions for Substance Use Disorders, HCV, and HIV (CHERISH) and now leads its Policy Advisory Board.
Selected Publications
- Murphy SM, Polsky D, Lee JD, Friedmann PD, Kinlock TW, Nunes EV, Bonnie RJ, Gordon M, Chen DT, Boney TY, O'Brien CP. Cost-effectiveness of extended release naltrexone to prevent relapse among criminal justice-involved individuals with a history of opioid use disorder. Addiction. 2017 Aug;112(8):1440-1450. doi: 10.1111/add.13807. PMID: 28239984; PMCID: PMC5503784.
- Polsky D, Cidav Z, Swanson A. Marketplace plans with narrow physician networks feature lower monthly premiums than plans with larger networks. Health Aff (Millwood). 2016 Oct 1;35(10):1842-1848. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2016.0693. PMID: 27702958.
- Murphy SM, Polsky D. Economic evaluations of opioid use disorder interventions. Pharmacoeconomics. 2016 Sep;34(9):863-87. doi: 10.1007/s40273-016-0400-5. PMID: 27002518; PMCID: PMC5572804.
- Murphy SM, Campbell AN, Ghitza UE, Kyle TL, Bailey GL, Nunes EV, Polsky D. Cost-effectiveness of an internet-delivered treatment for substance abuse: Data from a multisite randomized controlled trial. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2016 Apr 1;161:119-26. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2016.01.021. PMID: 26880594; PMCID: PMC4792755.
- Polsky D, Richards M, Basseyn S, Wissoker D, Kenney GM, Zuckerman S, Rhodes KV. Appointment availability after increases in Medicaid payments for primary care. N Engl J Med. 2015 Feb 5;372(6):537-45. doi: 10.1056/NEJMsa1413299. PMID: 25607243.
- Polsky D, David G, Yang J, Kinosian B, Werner R. The effect of entry regulation in the health care sector: The case of home health. J Public Econ. 2014 Feb 1;110:1-14. doi: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2013.11.003. PMID: 24497648; PMCID: PMC3909526.
- Glick HA, Doshi JA, Sonnad SS, Polsky D. Economic evaluation in clinical trials. Oxford University Press. Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Konetzka RT, Polsky D, Werner RM. Shipping out instead of shaping up: Rehospitalization from nursing homes as an unintended effect of public reporting. J Health Econ. 2013 Mar;32(2):341-52. doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2012.11.008. PMID: 23333954.
- Decker SL, Doshi JA, Knaup AE, Polsky D. Health service use among the previously uninsured: is subsidized health insurance enough? Health Econ. 2012 Oct;21(10):1155-68. doi: 10.1002/hec.1780. PMID: 22945812; PMCID: PMC3886823.
- Werner RM, Norton EC, Konetzka RT, Polsky D. Do consumers respond to publicly reported quality information? Evidence from nursing homes. J Health Econ. 2012 Jan;31(1):50-61. doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2012.01.001. PMID: 22307033.
- Polsky D, Glick HA, Yang J, Subramaniam GA, Poole SA, Woody GE. Cost-effectiveness of extended buprenorphine-naloxone treatment for opioid-dependent youth: Data from a randomized trial. Addiction. 2010 Sep;105(9):1616-24. doi: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2010.03001.x. PMID: 20626379; PMCID: PMC2967450.
- Polsky D, Grande D. The burden of health care costs for working families. LDI Issue Brief. 2009 Jul;14(5):1-4. PMID: 19795545.
- Polsky D, Doshi JA, Escarce J, Manning W, Paddock SM, Cen L, Rogowski J. The health effects of Medicare for the near-elderly uninsured. Health Serv Res. 2009 Jun;44(3):926-45. doi: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2009.00964.x. PMID: 19674430; PMCID: PMC2699915.
- Polsky D, Ross SJ, Brush BL, Sochalski J. Trends in characteristics and country of origin among foreign-trained nurses in the United States, 1990 and 2000. Am J Public Health. 2007 May;97(5):895-9. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2005.072330. PMID: 17395844; PMCID: PMC1854875.
- Polsky D, Basu A. Selection bias in observational studies. In: Jones AM, editor. The Elgar companion to health economics. Chapter 43. Edward Elgar Publishing, Elgar Press; 2006.
- Polsky D, Stein R, Nicholson S, Bundorf MK. Employer health insurance offerings and employee enrollment decisions. Health Serv Res. 2005 Oct;40(5 Pt 1):1259-78. doi: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2005.00415.x. PMID: 16174133; PMCID: PMC1361201.
- Polsky D, Keating NL, Weeks JC, Schulman KA. Patient choice of breast cancer treatment: Impact on health state preferences. Med Care. 2002 Nov;40(11):1068-79. doi: 10.1097/00005650-200211000-00008. PMID: 12409852.
- Polsky D, Willke RJ, Scott K, Schulman KA, Glick HA. A comparison of scoring weights for the EuroQol derived from patients and the general public. Health Econ. 2001 Jan;10(1):27-37. doi: 10.1002/1099-1050(200101)10:1<27::aid-hec561>3.0.co;2-r. PMID: 11180567.
- Polsky D, Kletke PR, Wozniak GD, Escarce JJ. HMO penetration and the geographic mobility of practicing physicians. J Health Econ. 2000 Sep;19(5):793-809. doi: 10.1016/s0167-6296(00)00053-9. PMID: 11184805.
- Polsky D, Glick HA, Willke R, Schulman K. Confidence intervals for cost-effectiveness ratios: a comparison of four methods. Health Econ. 1997 May-Jun;6(3):243-52. doi: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1050(199705)6:3<243::aid-hec269>3.0.co;2-z. PMID: 9226142.