Eric Roberts Department of Health Care Policy Eric Roberts, PhD, is a health economist whose work focuses on insurance and delivery system reform, with a particular interest in the effects of reform on access to care for disadvantaged populations. He received his PhD in health policy and management, with a con- centration in health economics, from Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Roberts’ dissertation examined access to primary care for Medicaid adults with variable insurance coverage, and methodological issues surrounding the use of non-experimental data for Medicaid ben- eficiaries. Dr. Roberts is working with Ateev Mehrotra and Michael McWilliams to study the implementation of hospital global budgets in Maryland, and on a series of projects examining the relationship between market structure, prices, and quality. Dr. Roberts’s work has appeared in Health Affairs, Health Services Research, Medical Care Research & Review, and other policy journals. Dr. Robert’s dissertation work examined access to primary care services for low-income adults with variable insurance coverage. He also has a broad interest in health disparities and studying the impli- cations of insurance and delivery system reforms for socioeconomi- cally disadvantaged populations. News: First Ever Marshall J. Seidman Fellows Begin Their Terms at HCP Publications: Roberts ET, DuGoff EH, Heins S, Swedler D, Feldman D, Wegner S, Castillo RC, Canudas-Romo V, and Anderson GF (2015). “Evaluating Clinical Practice Guidelines Based on their Association with Return to Work in Administrative Claims Data.” In press at Health Services Research. Roberts ET, DuGoff EH, Heins SE, Swedler DI, Castillo RC, Feldman DR (2016). “Evaluating Clinical Practice Guidelines Based on Their Association with Return to Work in Administrative Claims Data.” Health Services Research 51(3):953-80. Roberts ET (2015). “Three Tests of Information Asymmetry among Medicaid Adults.” Health Services and Out- comes Research Methodology 15: 241-282. Roberts ET and Gaskin DJ (2015). “A Forecast of Primary Care Use in the Medicaid Expansion Population: Evidence for Providers and Policymakers.” Medical Care Research and Review 72(5): 241-282. *Won 2015 Article of the Year in Medical Care Research and Review. Spencer CS, Roberts ET, and Gaskin DJ (2015). “Quality of Hospital Care by payer: Adverse Patient Safety Events and Complications in Hospital Care.” Medical Care 53(6): 524-9. Spencer CS, Gaskin DJ, and Roberts ET (2013). “The Quality of Care Delivered To Patients Within the Same Hospital Varies by Insurance Type.” Health Affairs (32)10: 1731-1739.  Department of Health Care Policy Eric Roberts, cont. Publications, cont: Roberts ET, Pollack CE. “Does Churning in Medicaid Affect Health Care Use?” Medical Care. 2016 May;54(5):483-9. Contact Information: roberts@hcp.med.harvard.edu 
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