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. Her research interests are in physician behavior, physician quality, U.S. healthcare delivery system and payment reform, and access to care.
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- Chen, Lucy, and J. Michael McWilliams. "Performance on Patient Experience Measures of Former Chief Medical Residents as Physician Exemplars Chosen by the Profession." JAMA Internal Medicine (February 27, 2023). View Details
- Branham, D. Keith, Kenneth Finegold, Lucy Chen, Melony Sorbero, Roald Euller, Marc N. Elliott, and Benjamin D. Sommers. "Trends in Missing Race and Ethnicity Information After Imputation in HealthCare.gov Marketplace Enrollment Data, 2015–2021." JAMA Network Open 5, no. 6 (June 2022): e2216715–e2216715. View Details
- Steenland, Maria W., Caroline K. Geiger, Lucy Chen, Slawa Rokicki, Rebecca A. Gourevitch, Anna D. Sinaiko, and Jessica L. Cohen. "Declines in Contraceptive Visits in the United States During the COVID-19 Pandemic." Contraception 104, no. 6 (2021): 593–599. 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
- 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 (2020). View Details
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