Patrick N O’mahen
Biographic Data
| ID | 4422267 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patrick N O’mahen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patrick N |
| FAMILY NAME | O’mahen |
| SIGNATURE | O’MAHEN P N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2417-6057 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
When Workforce Policy Meets Operational Reality
Subsidizing Affordable Care Act Marketplace Insurance for Adults Below the Federal Poverty Level
An Alternative Method of Public Reporting of Comparative Hospital Quality and Performance Data for Transparency Initiatives
BACKGROUND: Hospital performance comparisons for transparency initiatives may be inadequate if peer comparison groups are poorly defined. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to evaluate a new approach identifying hospital peers for comparison. DESIGN/SETTING: We used Mahalanobis distance as a new method of developing peer-specific groupings for hospitals to incorporate both external and internal complexity. We compared the overlap in group…
Effects of State-level Medicaid Expansion on Veterans Health Administration Dual Enrollment and Utilization
OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to examine how pre-Affordable Care Act (ACA) state-level Medicaid expansions affect dual enrollment and utilization of Veterans Health Administration (VA) and Medicaid-funded care. RESEARCH DESIGN: We employed difference-in-difference analysis to determine the association between pre-ACA Medicaid expansions in New York and Arizona in 2001 and VA utilization. Participants' dual enrollment in Medicaid and …
A Big Bird effect? The interaction among public broadcasting, public subsidies, and political knowledge
Policymakers in industrialized democracies often debate the efficacy of subsidizing public broadcasters. Surprisingly however, past media and politics research analyzing the effects of public broadcasting on political knowledge does not isolate the effect of subsidies and instead treats all public broadcasters as equals. This study theorizes that subsidized public broadcasters have to worry less about competing with entertainment-oriented commerc…
A Big Bird effect? The interaction among public broadcasting, public subsidies, and political knowledge
Policymakers in industrialized democracies often debate the efficacy of subsidizing public broadcasters. Surprisingly however, past media and politics research analyzing the effects of public broadcasting on political knowledge does not isolate the effect of subsidies and instead treats all public broadcasters as equals. This study theorizes that subsidized public broadcasters have to worry less about competing with entertainment-oriented commerc…
A Big Bird effect? The interaction among public broadcasting, public subsidies, and political knowledge
Policymakers in industrialized democracies often debate the efficacy of subsidizing public broadcasters. Surprisingly however, past media and politics research analyzing the effects of public broadcasting on political knowledge does not isolate the effect of subsidies and instead treats all public broadcasters as equals. This study theorizes that subsidized public broadcasters have to worry less about competing with entertainment-oriented commerc…
Effects of State-level Medicaid Expansion on Veterans Health Administration Dual Enrollment and Utilization
OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to examine how pre-Affordable Care Act (ACA) state-level Medicaid expansions affect dual enrollment and utilization of Veterans Health Administration (VA) and Medicaid-funded care. RESEARCH DESIGN: We employed difference-in-difference analysis to determine the association between pre-ACA Medicaid expansions in New York and Arizona in 2001 and VA utilization. Participants' dual enrollment in Medicaid and …
Subsidizing Affordable Care Act Marketplace Insurance for Adults Below the Federal Poverty Level
An Alternative Method of Public Reporting of Comparative Hospital Quality and Performance Data for Transparency Initiatives
BACKGROUND: Hospital performance comparisons for transparency initiatives may be inadequate if peer comparison groups are poorly defined. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to evaluate a new approach identifying hospital peers for comparison. DESIGN/SETTING: We used Mahalanobis distance as a new method of developing peer-specific groupings for hospitals to incorporate both external and internal complexity. We compared the overlap in group…
When Workforce Policy Meets Operational Reality
Healthcare Policy and Management (4 works) · Primary Care and Health Outcomes (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Health care (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Nursing (2 works) · Public economics (2 works) · Subsidy (2 works) · Actuarial science (1 work)