Assistant Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice

Overview

Jason D. Buxbaum, PhD, MHSA, studies health care affordability in the context of insurance coverage, hospital care, and insurer–hospital relations. Particular areas of focus include cost–quality tradeoffs, the determinants of administrative efficiency, the impact of expenditures on private-sector wages and public budgets, alternative payment model adoption and performance, and price negotiations and premium setting. Jason aims to help policymakers make maximally informed trade offs—and, when possible, identify relatively low hanging fruit—through timely, empirically rigorous evidence. Additional areas of focus include primary care access and the adoption of home- and community based services.

Jason received a PhD in health policy from Harvard University in 2024, a master's in health services administration from the University of Michigan in 2014, and a BA from Bates College in 2008. He has worked as a policy analyst at the National Academy for State Health Policy, a senior analyst in the policy development and reimbursement strategies area of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, and a project manager for Michigan’s $70 million State Innovation Models federal award. Buxbaum also managed an industry-academia partnership dedicated to eliminating care that is harmful, unnecessary, or both.

Jason's work has been referenced by the New York Times, Washington Post, and Miami Herald, as well as NBC News and NPR.  His research has also been cited in Congressional testimony.

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