AcademyHealth Article of Year Honors Paper by Konetzka, Polsky and Werner

A paper co-authored by a University of Chicago health economist and two LDI Senior Fellows has won the 2014 AcademyHealth “Article of the Year” award. The honor was announced at the health services research organization’s annual research conference earlier this week.

Originally published in the Journal of Health Economics, the work, “Shipping out instead of shaping up: Rehospitalization from nursing homes as an unintended effect of public reporting,” was produced by Tamara Konetzka, Associate Professor in the University of Chicago’s Department of Health Studies; Dan Polsky, a Professor of both Medicine at Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine and Health Care Management at The Wharton School; and Rachel Werner, Associate Professor of Medicine at the Perelman School.