Problem definition: In response to the increased use of telehealth to replace traditional office visits with a physician, several US states have recently adopted telehealth pay parity policies. Such policies state that payers must reimburse healthcare providers for telehealth services at the...

The Emergency Medical Services (EMS) system is designed to handle life-threatening emergencies, but a large and growing number of non-emergency patients are accessing hospital-based healthcare through EMS. A national survey estimated that 17% of ambulance trips to hospital Emergency Departments...

The relationship between public and private international law is a topic which has long been debated, and which remains highly controversial. Despite an increasing range of scholarship looking at connections between the two fields, some modern public and private international lawyers would doubt...

Telehealth pay-parity laws and regulations require payers to cover and reimburse certain healthcare services provided remotely to the same extent as if those services were delivered in a traditional office setting. COVID-19 has spurred additional proposed and enacted legislation aimed at...

Hospitalists are physicians that specialize in the care of hospital inpatients, a job that until recently belonged to primary care physicians. We develop an operational model of hospitalist-patient interaction with rounding and responding service modes, optimizing hospitalist case-mix and...

Motivated by the persistent lack of testing capacity in the COVID-19 pandemic, we study the question "who should be tested?" when capacity is limited, tests have errors, and patients differ in their prior probability of being infected. While health offcials initially prioritized testing patients...