July 2016 ANNA D. SINAIKO PROFESSIONAL ADDRESS: Harvard School of Public Health Department of Health Policy and Management 677 Huntington Avenue, Room 409 Boston, MA 02115 (617) 432-6472 (phone) (617) 432-4494 (fax) Email: asinaiko@hsph.harvard.edu EDUCATION 1998 Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, A.B., Princeton University 2004 Public Policy (Health Policy), M.P.P., Harvard Kennedy School 2010 Health Policy (Economics Track), Ph. D., Harvard University POSTDOCTORAL TRAINING 2010 Health Economics and Policy, Department of Health Policy & Management, June 2013 Harvard School of Public Health, Research Fellow ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS July 2013- Research Scientist Department of Health Policy and Management Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 1998 2000 Management Consultant, Booz-Allen & Hamilton, New York, NY 2000-2002 Research Assistant, Center for Health Policy/Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research, Stanford University 1
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES: 2007-present 2010-present 2010-present AcademyHealth International Health Economics Association American Society of Health Economists HONORS AND DISTINCTIONS 2014 NIHCM Foundation Annual Health Care Research Award for Integrating Risk Adjustment and Enrollee Premiums in Health Plan Payment with Tom McGuire, Jacob Glazer, Joe Newhouse, Sharon-Lise Normand, Julie Shi and Samuel Zuvekas 2011 Best Abstract in the category of Consumer Engagement, Choices and Decision- Making, Academy Health Annual Research Meeting, Seattle, WA. 2006 Distinction on Field Qualifying Examination (Health Economics), Harvard University 2004 Prize for best Policy Analysis Exercise (Masters Thesis), Harvard Kennedy School 1998 Myron T. Herrick prize for top undergraduate thesis in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University 1998 Cum Laude Society, Princeton University 1994 National Merit Scholar EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES 2006 - Ad-Hoc Peer Reviewer: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (Technical Briefs), American Journal of Managed Care, Health Affairs, Health Services Research, Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Journal of General Internal Medicine, Journal of Health Economics, Medical Care, Medical Care Research and Review, The Milbank Quarterly, Pediatrics, Psychiatric Services, Risk Management and Healthcare Policy MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS 1. Consumer decision-making in healthcare settings 2. Market-oriented Health Policy 3. Behavioral Economics 2
RESEARCH SUPPORT 8/1/16 7/31/18 The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation PI Understanding the impact of reference-based pricing for common, routine procedures and the barriers to adoption of the health benefit design 12/1/13 2/29/16 The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation PI The Impact of Price Transparency Tools on Consumer Behavior 1/1/14 3/31/15 National Institute of Health Care Management PI Variations in Patient Experience with Tiered Networks 2/1/14 -- 6/30/14 National Institutes on Aging Newhouse (P01 PI) The Role of Private Plans in Medicare Project 1 PI appointed following Richard Frank appointment as ASPE 10/15/14 4/14/15 The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation PI Understanding Consumer Choice Dynamics in the ACA State Marketplaces 01/01/15 12/31/15 The Connecticut Health Foundation PI Understanding the experiences of low-income and minority enrollees in two state-based ACA Exchanges TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2004 Course Assistant, Economic Analysis of Public Policy, (Professor Theodore Panayotou), Harvard Kennedy School 2005 Teaching Fellow, Introduction to Health Care Policy (Professor Richard Frank), Harvard University, Led weekly sections of undergraduate students 2006 Teaching Fellow, Introduction to Health Care Policy (Professor Richard Frank), Harvard University, Led weekly sections of undergraduate students 2006 Teaching Fellow, The Economics of Health Care Policy (Professor Joseph P. Newhouse), Harvard Kennedy School, Led weekly sessions of graduate students 2014-16 Co-Instructor, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston MA Economics of Health Policy (HPM 209), with Professor Meredith Rosenthal 2014-15 Guest Lecture, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston MA 3
Quantitative Methods in Program Evaluation (HPM 543), Professor Katherine Baicker BIBLIOGRAPHY PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES 1. Singer SJ, Gaba DM, Geppert JJ, Sinaiko AD, Howard SK, Park KC. The Culture of Safety: Results from an Organization-wide Survey in 15 California Hospitals. The Journal of Quality and Safety in Health Care 2003; 12(2):112-8. 2. Gaba DM, Singer SJ, Sinaiko AD, Bowen JD, Ciavarelli AP. Differences in Safety Climate Between Hospital Personnel and Naval Aviators, Human Factors 2003; 45(2): 173-185. 3. Sinaiko AD. Employers Responses to a Pay-or-Play mandate: An Analysis of California s Health Insurance Act of 2003 Health Affairs 2004; October 13, 2004; http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/full/hlthaff.w4.469/dc1 4. Huskamp HA, Sinaiko AD and Newhouse JP. Future Directions for the National Health Expenditure Accounts: Conference Overview. Health Care Financing Review 2006; 28(1): 1-8 5. Sinaiko AD and McGuire TG. Patient Inducement, Provider Priorities and Resource Allocation in Public Mental Health Systems. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 2006; 31(6): 1075-1106 6. Newhouse, JP and Sinaiko AD. A Different Application for Productivity Measures, or Has the Difficulty of Measuring Physician Productivity Caused the Federal Deficit to be Misestimated? Survey of Current Business 2007; 87(6): 72-77 4
7. Newhouse JP and Sinaiko AD. Estimates of Physician Productivity: An Evaluation. Health Care Financing Review 2007-2008; 29 (2): 33-40 8. Newhouse, JP and Sinaiko AD. Productivity Adjustment in the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Update Health Care Financing Review 2007-2008; 29 (2): 5-14 9. Rosenthal, MB., De Brantes, FS., Sinaiko AD, Frankel M, Robbins RD, Young S. Bridges to Excellence -- Recognizing High-Quality Care: Analysis of Physician Quality and Resource Use. American Journal of Managed Care 2008;14(10) 670-677 10. Meara, E, Rosenthal, MB, Sinaiko, AD, and Baicker K State and Federal Approaches to Health Reform: What Works for the Working Poor? Forum for Health Economics & Policy 2008; Vol. 10: Iss. 1 (Frontiers in Health Policy Research), Article 5. http://www.bepress.com/fhep/10/1/5 11. Newhouse JP and Sinaiko AD. Can Multi-payer Financing Achieve Single-Payer Spending Levels? Forum for Health Economics & Policy 2008; Vol. 10: Iss. 1 (Frontiers in Health Policy Research), Article 2. http://www.bepress.com/fhep/10/1/2 12. McGuire TG and Sinaiko AD. Regulating a Health Insurance Exchange: Implications for Individuals with Mental Illness. Psychiatric Services 2010; 61(11): 1074-1080. 13. Sinaiko AD and Rosenthal MB. Consumer Experience with a Tiered Physician Network: Early Evidence. American Journal of Managed Care 2010; 16(2): 123-130. 14. McGuire TG, Newhouse JP and Sinaiko AD. An Economic History of Medicare Part C. Milbank Quarterly 2011; 89(2): 289-332. (PMCID number: NIHMS289014). 15. Sinaiko AD. How Does Quality Information and Cost Affect Patient Choice of Provider in a Tiered Network Setting? Results from a Survey. Health Services Research 2011; 46(2): 437-456. 5
16. Sinaiko AD and Hirth RA. Consumers, Health Insurance and Dominated Choices. Journal of Health Economics 2011; 30:450-457. doi:10.1016/j.jhealeco.2010.12.008 17. Sinaiko AD, Eastman D and Rosenthal MB. How Report Cards on Physicians, Physician Groups, and Hospitals Can Have Greater Impact on Consumer Choices. Health Affairs 2012; 31(3): 602-611. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2011.1197 18. Sinaiko AD, Ross-Degnan D, Soumerai SB, Lieu T and Galbraith A. The Experience Of Massachusetts Shows That Consumers Will Need Help In Navigating Insurance Exchanges. Health Affairs 2013; 32:78-86; doi:10.1377/hlthaff.2012.0124 19. Galbraith A, Sinaiko AD, Soumerai S, Ross-Degnan D, Miroshnik I, Dutta-Linn M and Lieu T. Some Families Who Purchased Health Coverage Through the Massachusetts Connector Wound Up With High Financial Burdens Health Affairs 2013; 32(5): 974-983; doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2012.0864 20. McGuire TG, Glazer J, Newhouse JP, Normand SLT, Shi J, Sinaiko AD and Zuvekas S. Integrating Risk Adjustment and Enrollee Premiums in Health Plan Payment. The Journal of Health Economics 2013; 32:1263-1277 21. Sinaiko AD, Afendulis CC, and Frank RG. Medicare Advantage Enrollment and Status Quo Bias: the Experience in Miami-Dade County Inquiry 2013; 50: 202-215, doi:10.1177/0046958013516586 22. Zhu JM, Layton TJ, Sinaiko AD and McGuire TG. The Power of Reinsurance in Health Insurance Exchanges to Improve the Fit of the Payment System and Reduce Incentives for Adverse Selection. Inquiry 2013; 50(4): 255-274. 6
23. Sinaiko AD and Rosenthal MB. The Impact of Tiered Physician Networks on Patient Choices Health Services Research 2014; 49(4): 1348-1363, doi: 10.1111/1475-6773.12165 24. Afendulis CC, Sinaiko AD and Frank RG. "Dominated Choices and Medicare Advantage Enrollment." The Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 2015; 119: 72-83. 25. Rosenthal MB, Sinaiko AD, Eastman DE, Chapman B and Partridge G. Impact of the Rochester Medical Home Initiative on Primary Care Practices, Quality, Utilization and Costs Medical Care 2015; 53(11) 967-973. 26. Layton TJ, McGuire TG and Sinaiko AD. Risk Corridors and Reinsurance in Health Insurance Marketplaces: Insurance for Insurers American Journal of Health Economics 2016; 2(1): 66-95. 27. Sinaiko AD and Rosenthal MB. Examining a Health Care Price Transparency Tool: Who Uses It and How They Shop for Care Health Affairs 2016; 35(4):662-670. 28. Sinaiko AD. Do Different Patients Respond to Tiered Physician Networks Differently? American Journal of Managed Care, 2016; 22(6):420-425. RESEARCH LETTERS 1. Mehrotra A, Brannan T and Sinaiko AD. Use Patterns of a State Health Care Price Transparency Web Site: What Do Patients Shop For? Inquiry 2014; (51) DOI: 10.1177/0046958014561496 2. Sinaiko AD, Mehrotra AM, and Sood N. Cost-Sharing Obligations, High-Deductible Health Plan Growth, and Shopping for Health Care: Enrollees With Skin In The Game. JAMA Internal Medicine 2016; Published online January 19, 2016. 7
ESSAYS AND COMMENTARY 1. Sinaiko AD and Rosenthal MB. Patients Role in Accountable Care Organizations. New England Journal of Medicine 2010; 363(27): 2583-2585. 2. Sinaiko AD and Rosenthal MB. Increased Price Transparency in Health Care Challenges and Potential Effects. New England Journal of Medicine 2011; 364: 891-894. 3. Sinaiko AD. Tiered Provider Networks As A Strategy To Improve Health Care Quality and Efficiency. Expert Voices in Health Care Policy Essay. Washington, DC: National Institute for Health Care Management, 2012. 4. Sinaiko AD. Consumers and the promise of health insurance exchanges. The Hill s Congress Blog Guest Post, Published January 7, 2013 (http://thehill.com/blogs/congressblog/healthcare/275493-consumers-and-the-promise-of-health-insurance-exchanges) 5. Sinaiko AD, Chien AT, Rosenthal MB. The Role of States in Improving Price Transparency in Health Care. JAMA Internal Medicine 2015; 175(6): 886-887. 6. Sinaiko AD and Zeckhauser R. Medicare Advantage What Explains It s Robust Health? American Journal of Managed Care 2015; 21(11): 804-806. BOOK CHAPTERS 1. Newhouse, JP and AD Sinaiko. What We Know and Don t Know About the Effects of Cost Sharing on Demand for Medical Care and So What? in Incentives and Choice in Health and Health Care, F Sloan and H Kasper, eds. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press: 2008. 8
2. Sinaiko AD. Price Elasticity of Demand for Medical Care: The Evidence since the RAND Health Insurance Experiment. In: Anthony J. Culyer (ed.), Encyclopedia of Health Economics, Vol [3]. San Diego: Elsevier; 2014. pp. 122-126. 3. Sinaiko AD and Zeckhauser R. Forced to Choose, Again: The Effects of Defaults on Individuals in Terminated Health Plans. Chapter in Nudging Health: Health Law and Behavioral Economics I. Glenn Cohen, Holly Fernandez Lynch, and Christopher T. Robertson, eds (Johns Hopkins University Press, In Press) 9