Adam Wilk

Adam Wilk is an assistant professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management. He is a health economist and health services researcher, conducting research on physician decision-making, access to care for Medicaid beneficiaries and other low-income and underserved populations, and the management of complex, chronically ill patients, particularly adults with kidney failure.

Dr. Wilk received his doctorate at The University of Michigan School of Public Health in 2015. Before his time in Michigan, Dr. Wilk worked to develop episode-based cost-of-care measures at The Brookings Institution and as a consultant to state Medicaid agencies and private insurers at The Lewin Group.

Areas of Interest

• Health Economics
• Health Policy
• Health Services Research
• Statistical Modeling

Education

• AB 2006, Dartmouth College
• PhD 2015, University of Michigan

Courses

• Issues in Hlth.Econ.& HlthMgmt
• Doctoral Sem. in Health Policy

Affiliations & Activities

• Memberships: American Society of Nephrology, American Society of Health Economists, Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management, AcademyHealth

Publications

• Drewry, K. M., Trivedi, A. N., & Wilk, A. S., 2021, Organization Characteristics Associated with High Performance in Medicare’s Comprehensive End-stage Renal Disease Care Initiative, Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, 16, 1522-1530
• Wilk, A. S., Luu, M., & Cummings, J. R., 2020, Medicaid Managed Care and Providers’ Perception of Quality of Care for Children with Chronic Conditions in Georgia, Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 31, 1488-1504
• Saloner, B., Levin, J., & Wilk, A. S., 2019, Community Health Centers and Policies to Expand Access to Underserved Populations: A Synthesis Review, Medical Care Research and Review, epub 13 May 2019,
• Wilk, A. S., Hirth, R. A., & Messana, J. M., 2019, Paying for Frequent Dialysis, American Journal of Kidney Diseases, epub 25 Mar. 2019,
• Wilk, A. S., Evans, L. C., & Jones, D. K., 2018, Expanding Medicaid Access without Expanding Medicaid: Why did Some Non-expansion States Continue the Primary Care Fee Bump?, Journal of Health Policy, Politics and Law, 43, 109-127
• Wilk, A. S., Hirth, R. A., Zhang, W., Wheeler, J. R. C., Turenne, M. N., Nahra, T. A., … & Messana, J. M., 2018, Persistent Variation in Medicare Payment Authorization for Home Hemodialysis Treatments, Health Services Research, 53, 649-670
• Wilk, A. S. & Platt, J. E., 2016, Measuring Physicians' Trust: A Scoping Review with Implications for Public Policy, Social Science and Medicine, 165, 75-81
• Wilk, A. S., 2013, Differential Responses Among Primary Care Physicians to Varying Medicaid Fees, Inquiry, 50, 296-311