Patricia S. Keenan, Ph.D., M.H.S.
Assistant Professor,
Division of Health Policy and Administration
Professor Keenan’s research interests include three overlapping areas: trends in health insurance coverage and benefits; approaches to improve the quality and value of health care; and patient experiences with health and the health care system, particularly older adults. Her research areas include changes in job-based health insurance coverage as premiums rise and the population ages; Medicare coverage decisions for new treatments; measures of health care value; differences in quality of care by health status; and health behavior changes among older adults. She incorporates political and economic perspectives in research to examine key factors that shape health policy outcomes and the operation of the health care system. She is a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Education
Ph.D. in Health Policy concentrating in political analysis, Harvard University, 2005
M.H.S., Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 1998
Courses Taught
HPA 529A Health Policy and Political Analysis
Selected Publications
Keenan, P.S., Cutler, D.M., and Chernew, M.E. The Graying of Group Health Insurance. Health Affairs, in press, 2006.
Keenan, P.S., Neumann, P.J., and Phillips, K.A. Biotechnology and Medicare New Technology Policy: Lessons from 3 Case Studies. Health Affairs 25(5): 1260-1269, 2006.
Chernew, M., Cutler, D.M., and Keenan, P.S. Charity Care, Risk Pooling, and the Decline in Private Health Insurance. American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings 95(2): 209-213, 2005.
Chernew, M., Cutler, D.M. and Keenan, P.S. Increasing Health Insurance Costs and the Decline in Insurance Coverage. Health Services Research 40(4):1021-1039, 2005.
Neumann, P.J., Divi, N., Beinfeld, M.T., Levine, B., Keenan, P.S., Halpern, E.F., and Gazelle, G.S. Medicare’s National Coverage Decisions, 1999-2003: Quality of Evidence and Review Times. Health Affairs 21(1): 243-254, 2005.
Keenan, P.S., Beeuwkes-Buntin, M.J., McGuire, T.G., and Newhouse, J.P. The Prevalence of Formal Risk Adjustment in Health Plan Purchasing. Inquiry 38(3): 245-259, 2001.
For a further list of Dr. Keenan’s publications, please see PubMed.
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