Pinar Karaca-Mandic, PhD
15-217 Phillips-Wangensteen Building
Minneapolis, MN 55455
United States
I investigate how changes in policy and insurance programs affect people's lives, including how they access health care, their prescriptions, and care. My research focuses on health insurance benefit design, health care regulations, insurance markets, pharmaceutical use, and medical technology diffusion.
Expertise
Management & economics, methods, health insurance, health economics, medical technology, health care markets, regulation, pharmaceuticals
Education
Associate Professor, Division of Health Policy and Management
Core Faculty, Institute for Health Informatics
PhD, Economics, University of California-Berkeley, 2004
BA, Economics and Mathematics, Swarthmore College
Research
Research Funding Grants
- 2016–2017, NIH NHLBI, "Diffusion of Clinical Evidence into Practice: Physician Networks, Delivery Organizations, and Markets," Principal Investigator
- 2015–2020, NIH NICHHD, "Integrated Health Interview Series Competing Continuation," Co-Investigator
Publications
See a full list of publications on PubMed
Select Recent Publications
- Karaca-Mandic P, Wilcock A, Baum L, Barry CL, Fowler EF, Niederdeppe J, Gollust SE. "The Volume of TV Advertisements During The ACA's First Enrollment Period was Associated with Increased Insurance Coverage," Health Affairs, April 2017
- Karaca-Mandic P, Jena AB, Ross JS. "Health and Health Care Use Among Individuals at Risk to Lose Health Insurance With Repeal of the Affordable Care Act," JAMA Internal Medicine, Jan 2017
- Jena AB, Goldman D, Karaca-Mandic P. "Hospital Prescribing of Opioids to Medicare Beneficiaries," JAMA Internal Medicine, July 2016
- Karaca-Mandic P, Town RJ, Wilcock A. "The Effect of Physician and Hospital Market Structure on Medical Technology Diffusion," Health Services Research, May 2016
- Karaca-Mandic P, Fulton BD, Hollingshead A, Scheffler RM. "States with stronger health insurance rate review authority experienced lower premiums in the individual market in 2010-13," Health Affairs, Aug 2015
Teaching
Courses
- PubH 6557, Health Finance I
- PubH 6845, Using Demographic Data for Policy Analysis
Media
In The News
SPH News
- State-sponsored Ads Help Increase Health Insurance Enrollment
- A Repeal of the ACA Could Hurt Those Who Need It the Most
- Targeting Addiction: Opioid Prescribing Common Upon Hospital Discharge
- Medicare Advantage Patients Use Less Care with Better Outcomes
- Drug Companies Failing to Properly Report Side Effects
- Inhaler Ban Increases Cost for Asthma Patients
- State Approval Requirement Leads to Slower Increases in Health Insurance Rates
In the Media
- "Trump is now in charge of making Obamacare work. What could go wrong?" Vox
- "Study finds link between TV ads and ACA coverage," Star Tribune
- "Another astronomical drug hike: Price of opioid antidote leaps 600%," USA Today
- "Poor, chronically sick, unemployed most likely to lose coverage if ACA repealed, study finds," ABC News
- "Haste in jettisoning Obamacare will invite chaos," (Commentary) Star Tribune