Lucy Chen is an MD-PhD candidate in Health Policy (Management) at Harvard/MIT. She graduated in 2016 from the University of Pennsylvania’s Life Sciences & Management Program, with a BS in Economics from Wharton (concentrating in Healthcare Management & Policy and Operations, Information, and Decisions) and a BA in Biology. At Penn, she worked at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, studying the behavioral economics of end-of-life care. She also was a life sciences consultant at the Wharton Small Business Development Center and a healthcare investment banking summer analyst at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Lucy completed two years of medical school, including clinical rotations, before starting her PhD, and she is interested in ob/gyn. Her research interests are in physician behavior, U.S. healthcare delivery system and payment reform, quality of care, and access to healthcare for low-income and vulnerable populations.
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- Sommers, Benjamin D., Lucy Chen, Robert J. Blendon, E. John Orav, and Arnold M. Epstein. "Medicaid Work Requirements In Arkansas: Two-Year Impacts On Coverage, Employment, And Affordability Of Care." Health Affairs 39, no. 9 (September 2020). View Details
- Chen, Lucy, Richard G. Frank, and Haiden A. Huskamp. "Overturning the ACA’s Medicaid Expansion Would Likely Decrease Low-Income, Reproductive-Age Women’s Healthcare Spending and Utilization." Inquiry 57 (December 11, 2020). View Details
- Pany, Maximilian J., Lucy Chen, Bethany Sheridan, and Robert S. Huckman. "Provider Teams Outperform Solo Providers in Managing Chronic Diseases and Could Improve the Value of Care." Health Affairs 40, no. 3 (March 2021): 435–444. View Details
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