Medicaid Expansion and Changes in Reasons For Emergency Department Use

Authors
  • Shin-Chuan Chou, MD, MPH

  • Suhas Gondi

  • Scott G. Weiner, MD, MPH

  • Jeremiah (Jay) Schuur, MD, MHS

    Jeremiah (Jay) Schuur, MD, MHS, is Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University; Physician-in-Chief of Emergency Medicine at Rhode Island, Hasbro Children’s, The Miriam and Newport Hospitals; and President of Brown Emergency Medicine.

    Previously, he served as the Vice Chair of Clinical Affairs and founding Chief of the Division of Health Policy Translation for the Department of Emergency Medicine of the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Schuur received his MD from the New York University (NYU), and did his Emergency Medicine residency at Brown/Rhode Island Hospital, where he was a Chief Resident. He was then a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at Yale.

    Dr. Schuur’s scholarly interests focus on quality of care and patient safety in emergency medicine and the intersection of emergency care and health policy. He has been funded by governmental agencies and foundations including the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. He is currently co-leading ACEP’s 4-year $4 million E-QUAL network, a national quality network funded by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation.
  • Benjamin D. Sommers, MD, PhD