AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

  • #ACOs
  • #payment reform
  • #health economics
  • #health care value
  • #physician income

Bio

A health economist, Carrie Colla focuses on physician payment, health insurance markets, and insurance benefit design. Her work is aimed at improving the quality, accessibility, and cost of health care.

Colla’s investigator-initiated research is dedicated to examining health system performance and the effectiveness of payment and delivery system reforms, including accountable care organizations. Her empirical studies include the effects of changes in Medicare reimbursement for physicians and institutional providers on high-need, high-cost patients; the prevalence and drivers of low-value health care services; and labor market effects of health insurance expansions, among others.

Colla has been an investigator for the annual National Survey of Accountable Care Organizations (NSACO) since its inception in 2012, and she is a lead investigator in Dartmouth’s Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Center of Excellence to Study High-Performing Health Care Systems. She also teaches microeconomics and health policy at Dartmouth College.

Colla received her undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College, and her MA in economics and PhD in health policy from the University of California, Berkeley. She is the past recipient of a SYNERGY Career Development Award from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the National Institutes of Health.

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Published Research

Rural Cancer Care: The Role of Space and Place in Care Delivery.

Loehrer AP, Colla CH, Wong SL

Ann Surg Oncol|2020 Mar 19

Physician practices in Accountable Care Organizations are more likely to collect and use physician performance information, yet base only a small proportion of compensation on performance data.

Rosenthal M, Shortell S, Shah ND, Peiris D, Lewis VA, Barrera JA, Usadi B, Colla CH

Health Serv Res|2019 Dec

Cascades of Care After Incidental Findings in a US National Survey of Physicians.

Ganguli I, Simpkin AL, Lupo C, Weissman A, Mainor AJ, Orav EJ, Rosenthal MB, Colla CH, Sequist TD

JAMA Netw Open|2019 Oct 2

Inclusion of Nursing Homes and Long-term Residents in Medicare ACOs.

Chang CH, Mainor A, Raymond S, Peck K, Colla C, Bynum J

Med Care|2019 Dec

Prevalence of Screening for Food Insecurity, Housing Instability, Utility Needs, Transportation Needs, and Interpersonal Violence by US Physician Practices and Hospitals.

Fraze TK, Brewster AL, Lewis VA, Beidler LB, Murray GF, Colla CH

JAMA Netw Open|2019 Sep 4

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Carrie Colla was one of only six mid-career professionals chosen to participate in the 2017-2018 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellows program. She will be spending a year in Washington, D.C., working on health-related legislative and regulatory issues with members of Congress and the executive branch. Learn more about Colla’s work as a RWJF Health Policy Fellow

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