Assistant Professor of Health Policy at Vanderbilt w/ expertise in access to care, Medicaid, Veterans' health. Formerly Boston University, Department of Defense, US Army (CIV). Views are my own. #HealthEconomics #PublicHealth
Kevin Griffith
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Examining weight stigma shows that the "obese" cutoff increases patient mortality. Analyses of diagnostic effort and clinical documentation point to stigma as a mechanism, from Manasvini Singh www.nber.org/papers/w35277
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Rich Nelson sharing evidence on a novel produce prescription program at two VA medical centers
$100/month for 12 mos dietitian coaching. What happened?
↓ blood pressure
↑ BMI (income effect?)
↑ outpatient costs
↓ ED costs
↔ food insecurity
#ASHEcon2026
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Physical therapy is an alternative to opioids for musculoskeletal pain
However, referral requirements may be a barrier
Physical therapy direct access laws were associated with fewer opioid prescriptions
LINK: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Samsun Naher sharing new work at #ASHEcon2026 - did Medicaid expansion crowd out private coverage for Mexican Americans?
She found expansion increased Medicaid coverage by 9.%, decreases private coverage by 2.8% (~30% crowdout)
If you're still at #ASHEcon2026, let me shamelessly plug two of my presentations:
930am: does congestion explain why veterans tend to see lower quality providers in the VA's community care network?
1230pm: how has Medicaid expansion affected hospitals' bad debt & charity costs pre/post COVID-19?
Today, the AAUP released the Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession, 2025–26.
It is sobering.
Full-time faculty salaries are down about 0.4% in real, inflation-adjusted terms. Average full-time faculty salaries remain 9.5% below fall 2019 & about 5.8% below fall 2008.
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Background We exploit state-level policy changes for physical therapy direct access to estimate the effect of enacting direct access physical therapy policy on per-capita opioid pill volume (PCPV) and...
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Kevin Griffith
Kevin Griffith
Kevin Griffith
This year's Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession finds that faculty salaries are still losing ground to inflation and expands data collection on part-time faculty pay.
