Adam Sacarny
Department of Health Policy & Management
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
722 West 168 Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10032
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
722 West 168 Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10032
Employment
2016-PresentAssistant Professor of Health Policy and
Management, Columbia University Mailman School of Public
Health
2014-2015Robert
Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy
Research, Harvard University
Other Affiliations
2016-PresentFaculty
Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research
2016-PresentAffiliate, Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab
(J-PAL)
2017-PresentAcademic Affiliate, Office of Evaluation Sciences,
U.S. General Services Administration
2017-PresentAffiliate, Columbia Population Research Center (CPRC)
Education
2009-2014PhD,
Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2003-2007BA,
Economics, Columbia
University
Publications
Sachs, Rachel E. and Adam Sacarny. 2020.
“Ensuring Access to Emerging COVID-19 Treatments Through Medicare
Reimbursement Policy.” JAMA Health
Forum, August 7.
Sacarny, Adam, Andrew Olenski, and Michael L.
Barnett. 2019. “Association of Quetiapine Overuse Letters With
Prescribing by Physician Peers of Targeted Recipients: A
Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Clinical Trial.” JAMA Psychiatry, 76(10): 1094-1095.
Sacarny, Adam, Michael L. Barnett, and
Shantanu Agrawal. 2019. “New Evidence on Stemming Low-Value
Prescribing.” NEJM Catalyst, April
10.
Sacarny, Adam, Michael L. Barnett, Jackson Le,
Frank Tetkoski, David Yokum, and Shantanu Agrawal. 2018. “Peer
Comparison Letters for High Volume Primary Care Prescribers of
Quetiapine in Older and Disabled Adults: A Randomized Clinical
Trial.” JAMA Psychiatry, 75(10):
1003-1011.
Glied, Sherry and Adam Sacarny. 2018. “Is the
U.S. Healthcare System Wasteful and Inefficient? A Review of the
Evidence.” Journal of Health Politics,
Policy and Law, 43(5): 739-765.
Sacarny, Adam. 2018. “Adoption and Learning
Across Hospitals: The Case of a Revenue-Generating Practice.”
Journal of Health Economics, 60:
142-164.
Sacarny, Adam, David Yokum, and Shantanu
Agrawal. 2017. “Government-Academic Partnerships in Randomized
Evaluations: The Case of Inappropriate Prescribing.” American Economic Review Papers &
Proceedings, 107(5): 466-470.
Marzilli Ericson, Keith M., Jon Kingsdale,
Timothy Layton, and Adam Sacarny. 2017. “Nudging Leads Consumers
In Colorado To Shop But Not Switch ACA Marketplace Plans.”
Health Affairs, 36(2):
311-319.
Chandra, Amitabh, Amy Finkelstein, Adam
Sacarny, and Chad Syverson. 2016. “Perhaps Market Forces Do Work
in Health Care After All.” Harvard Business
Review (Online),
December.
Chandra, Amitabh, Amy Finkelstein, Adam
Sacarny, and Chad Syverson. 2016. “Healthcare Exceptionalism?
Performance and Allocation in the U.S. Healthcare Sector.”
American Economic Review, 106(8):
2110-2144.
Chandra, Amitabh, Amy Finkelstein, Adam
Sacarny, and Chad Syverson. 2016. “Productivity Dispersion in
Medicine and Manufacturing.” American
Economic Review Papers & Proceedings, 106(5):
99-103.
Sacarny, Adam, David Yokum, Amy Finkelstein,
and Shantanu Agrawal. 2016. “Medicare Letters To Curb
Overprescribing Of Controlled Substances Had No Detectable Effect
On Providers.” Health Affairs, 35(3):
471-479.
Working Papers
Chandra, Amitabh, Pragya Kakani, and Adam
Sacarny. 2020. “Hospital Allocation and Racial Disparities in
Health Care” NBER Working Paper No. 28018.
Barnett, Michael, Andrew Olenski, and Adam
Sacarny. 2020. “Common Practice: Spillovers from Medicare on
Private Health Care.” NBER Working Paper No. 27270 (revisions
requested at American Economic Journal:
Economic Policy)
Sacarny, Adam, Katherine Baicker, and Amy
Finkelstein. 2020. “Out of the Woodwork: Enrollment Spillovers in
the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment.” NBER Working Paper No.
26871 (conditionally accepted at American
Economic Journal: Economic Policy)
Chandra, Amitabh, Amy Finkelstein, Adam
Sacarny, and Chad Syverson. 2013. “Healthcare Exceptionalism?
Productivity and Allocation in the U.S. Healthcare Sector.” NBER
Working Paper No. 19200
Randomized Trials in Progress
“Nudging Providers to Curtail Dangerous Opioid
Prescribing: A Trial to Investigate Mechanisms” (with Tatyana
Avilova, Mireille Jacobson, Weston Merrick, David Powell, and Ian
Williamson; enrollment complete)
“The Effect of Behavioral Interventions on
Enrollment and Adverse Selection in Health Insurance
Marketplaces” (with Timothy Layton, Keith M. Marzilli Ericson,
and Adrianna McIntyre; enrollment complete)
“Reducing Concurrent Opioid-Benzodiazepine
Prescriptions Through Provider Intervention” (with Elana Safran
and Mary Steffel; enrollment complete)
Other Research in Progress
“Inequities in COVID-19 Vaccination in Major
U.S. Cities” (with Jamie Daw)
“Technology Adoption and Market Allocation:
The Case of Robotic Surgery” (with Danea Horn and Annetta
Zhou)
“The Anatomy of a Hospital System Merger: The
Patient Did Not Respond Well to Treatment” (with Martin Gaynor,
Raffaella Sadun, Chad Syverson, and Shruthi Venkatesh)
“Regulated Revenues and Hospital Behavior:
Evidence from a Medicare Overhaul” (with Tal Gross, Maggie Shi,
and David Silver)
“Fragmentation of Care and the Quality of
Opioid and Benzodiazepine Prescribing for Older Adults” (with
Keith M. Marzilli Ericson and Annetta Zhou)
Honors and Awards
2019AcademyHealth
Publication of the Year (``Effect of Peer Comparison Letters
for High-Volume Primary Care Prescribers of Quetiapine in Older
and Disabled Adults: A Randomized Clinical Trial'')
2019NIHCM Health
Care Research Award Finalist (``Effect of Peer Comparison
Letters for High-Volume Primary Care Prescribers of Quetiapine
in Older and Disabled Adults: A Randomized Clinical
Trial'')
2007Phi Beta
Kappa
Grants and Fellowships
2021-2022National
Institute for Health Care Management - Nudging Providers to
Curtail Dangerous Opioid Prescribing and Improve the Safety of
the Health Care Delivery System (PI: Adam Sacarny),
$50,000
2021-2022National
Institute on Aging (R21AG070942) - The Effect of De-Prescribing
Antipsychotics on Health and Quality of Life for People with
Dementia (PI: Adam Sacarny), $427,914
2020-2022J-PAL
North America - Nudging Providers to Curtail Dangerous Opioid
Prescribing: A Trial to Investigate Mechanisms (PI: Adam
Sacarny), $142,579
2017-2022National
Institute on Aging (P01AG005842) - Improving Health Outcomes
for an Aging Population, Project: Market Learning and Health
Care Disparities (PLs: Amitabh Chandra and Adam Sacarny, PI:
Katherine Baicker), $156,676/year
2017-2022National
Institute on Aging (R01AG034151) - What Does Health Insurance
Do? Evidence from the Oregon Health Insurance Lottery (PIs:
Katherine Baicker and Amy Finkelstein), $561,546/year
2018-2020J-PAL
North America - The Effect of Behavioral Interventions on
Enrollment and Adverse Selection in Health Insurance
Marketplaces (PI: Timothy Layton), $206,010
2016-2020Laura
and John Arnold Foundation – Using HCCI Data to Study Issues
Relating to the Efficiency of the US Health Care System (PI:
Amy Finkelstein), $475,000
2019National
Institute on Aging (P01AG005842) - Improving Health Outcomes
for an Aging Population, Project: How Health Insurance Affects
Health (PLs: Katherine Baicker and Amy Finkelstein),
$155,082/year
2015-2017J-PAL
North America – Intervening with Consumers to Improve Choices
on Health Insurance Marketplaces (PIs: Adam Sacarny and
Katherine Swartz), $135,300
2014-2017J-PAL
North America – Reducing Inappropriate Prescribing of
Controlled Substances in the United States (PI: Adam Sacarny),
$7,082
2012-2014NBER
Health and Aging Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
2012George and
Obie Shultz Research Support Grant
2009-2011John
Castle Graduate International Fellowship
Seminars and Talks
2021MIT Sloan
Organizational Economics Lunch Series; American Society of
Health Economists Meeting (Online Presentation)
2020American
Economic Association Meetings (San Diego, CA); Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality; Children's Hospital of
Philadelphia PolicyLab; Junior Health Economics Summit
(Whistler, BC); NBER Summer Institute (Online Presentation);
University of Pennsylvania Center for Clinical Epidemiology and
Biostatistics
2019Junior Health
Economics Summit (Whistler, BC); Dartmouth NIA/P01 Research
Meeting (Boston, MA); Hunter College; AcademyHealth Research
Meeting (Washington, DC) CEPRA/NBER Workshop on Aging and
Health (Lugano, Switzerland); American Society of Health
Economists Meeting (Washington, DC); iHEA World Congress
(Basel, Switzerland); New York Academy of Medicine; Princeton
University; Office of Evaluation Sciences “Using Evidence”
Meeting (Washington, DC)
2018American
Economic Association Meetings (Philadelphia, PA); University of
Minnesota School of Public Health; University of Pennsylvania;
Junior Health Economics Summit (Whistler, BC); American
University; American Society of Health Economists Meeting
(Atlanta, GA)
2017American
Economic Association Meetings (Chicago, IL); AcademyHealth
National Health Policy Conference (Washington, DC); Junior
Health Economics Summit (Whistler, BC); University at Albany –
SUNY; Challenging the Conventional Wisdom Conference (Columbia
University); iHEA World Congress (Boston, MA); Advances with
Field Experiments Conference (Chicago, IL); Cornell
University
2016Junior Health
Economics Summit (Whistler, BC); Vanderbilt University; Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy Research
Annual Meeting (Aspen, CO); American Society of Health
Economists Meeting (Philadelphia, PA); AcademyHealth Research
Meeting (Boston, MA); Advances with Field Experiments
Conference (Chicago, IL); RAND (Santa Monica, CA); Office of
Evaluation Sciences (Washington, DC); APPAM Fall Research
Conference (Washington, DC); Hunter College; J-PAL North
America Conference (Cambridge, MA); Public-Academic Research
Colloquium (Washington, DC)
2015Harvard
Medical School; White House Social and Behavioral Sciences
Team; Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy
Research Annual Meeting (San Diego, CA); iHEA World Congress
(Milan, Italy); University of Chicago School of Social Service
Administration; University of Chicago Harris School of Public
Policy Studies
2014Columbia
University Mailman School of Public Health; Congressional
Budget Office; Stanford University School of Medicine; Yale
School of Public Health; University of Minnesota School of
Public Health; Johns Hopkins Carey Business School; USC Price
School of Public Policy; Federal Reserve Bank of New
York
Discussant
2021American
Society of Health Economists Meeting (Online)
2020American
Economic Association Meetings (San Diego, CA)
2019Japan
Economic Seminar (New York, NY)
2018American
Society of Health Economists Meeting (Atlanta, GA)
2016American
Society of Health Economists Meeting (Philadelphia, PA); Annual
Health Economics Conference (Nashville, TN); National Tax
Association Meetings (Baltimore, MD)
2015National Tax
Association Annual Conference on Taxation (Boston, MA)
Teaching
2016-PresentResearch Methods III: Analysis of Large Scale Data
(P8508)
2016-2018Research
Methods I: Empirical Analysis for Health Policy (P8502)
Previous Relevant Positions
2009-2014Research
Assistant, Professor Amy Finkelstein
2008-2009Associate
Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
2007-2008Research
Associate, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Professional Activities
Referee for: American
Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Journal:
Economic Policy, American Economic Review, American Economic
Review: Insights, American Journal of Health Economics, BMJ,
Economic Journal, Health Affairs, Health Economics, Health
Services Research, INQUIRY, J-PAL North America State and Local
Innovation Initiative, JAMA: Internal Medicine, Journal of Health
Economics, Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law, Journal
of Human Resources, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization,
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Journal of Political
Economy, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of the European
Economic Association, The Milbank Quarterly, New England Journal
of Medicine, Preventive Medicine, Quarterly Journal of Economics,
RAND Journal of Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics,
Science