Daniel Polsky

Dr. Polsky is the 40th Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins University. He holds tenured appointments in both the Bloomberg School Public Health and the Carey School of Business. Before joining Hopkins in 2019, he was the Robert D. Eilers Professor of Health Care Management and Professor of Medicine in the Wharton School and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. From 2012-2019, he was Executive Director of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics where he led 300 senior fellows and their $110 million in research grants addressing the health care system challenges of quality of care, care delivery transformation towards value, care access, and equity. His research has advanced the understanding of the cost and quality tradeoff of interventions whether they are changes to large federal programs or local programs. His contributions have been to the methods of analysis and to advancing the policies of access, coverage, and payment. Dr. Polsky has explored the disparities and coverage and access challenges for minority and low-income populations throughout his career.

He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and currently serves on the National Academy of Medicine’s Board of Population Health and the Health and Medicine Committee that oversees the NAM Boards. He serves on the Congressional Budget Office’s Panel of Health Advisers and was the senior economist on health issues at the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. He was co-director of the Policy Core for The Center for Health Economics of Treatment Interventions for Substance Use Disorders, HCV, and HIV (CHERISH) and now leads its Policy Advisory Board.

Education

• Ph. D, Economics, University of Pennsylvania
• MPP, Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan
• BS, Economics, University of Michigan

Professional Experience

• Secondary Appointment: Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 2022 – present.
• Joint Appointment, The Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, 2019 – present.
• Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Health Policy and Management, Department of Health Policy and Management, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, 2019 – present.
• Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Business, Carey School of Business, Johns Hopkins University, 2019 – present.
• Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 2015 – 2019
• Robert D. Eilers Professor in Health Care Management and Economics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 2012 – 2019
• Executive Director, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, 2012 – 2019
• Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 2009 - 2019
• Professor of Health Care Management, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 2009-2012
• Director of Research, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, 2008-2012
• Senior Economist, President’s Council of Economic Advisors, Washington, DC, 2007-2008
• Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 2006-2009
• Associate Professor of Health Care Management, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 2004-2009
• Research Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 2002-2006
• Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, 1997 - present
• Research Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 1996-2002

Selected publication

• Polsky D. Richards M. Basseyn S. Wissoker D. Kenney GM. Zuckerman S. Rhodes KV. Appointment Availability after Increases in Medicaid Payments for Primary Care. N Engl J Med 2015; 372:537-
• Polsky D, Cidav C, Swanson A: Marketplace Plans with Narrow Physician Networks Feature Lower Monthly Premiums Than Plans with Larger Networks. Health Affairs October 2016.
• Polsky D, Candon M, Chatterjee P, Chen X: Scope of Primary Care Physicians' Participation in The Health Insurance Marketplaces. Health Affairs 37(8): 1252-1256, August 2018.
• Polsky D, Candon M, Saloner B: Changes in Primary Care Access Between 2012 and 2016 for New Patients with Medicaid and Private Coverage. JAMA Internal Medicine 177(4): 588-590, April 2017.
• Polsky D, David G, Yang J, Kinosian B, Werner R: The Effect of Entry Regulation in the Health Care Sector: the Case of Home Health. Journal of Public Economics 110: 1, February 2014.
• Polsky D, Kletke PR, Wozniak GD, Escarce JJ: HMO penetration and the geographic mobility of practicing physicians. Journal of Health Economics 19(5): 793-809, Sep 2000.
• Konetzka T, Werner R, Polsky D: Shipping Out Instead of Shaping Up: Rehospitalization from Nursing Homes as an Unintended Effect of Public Reporting. Journal of Health Economics 32(2): 341-352, 2012.
• Werner RM, Norton EC, Konetzka RT, Polsky D: Do consumers respond to publicly reported quality information? Evidence from nursing homes. Journal of Health Economics 31: 50-61, 2012.