Michael L Barnett
Biographic Data
| ID | 5162097 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael L Barnett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael L |
| FAMILY NAME | Barnett |
| SIGNATURE | BARNETT M L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brigham and Women's Hospital |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0279-0766 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Evaluating Organizations in an Age of Absurdity
Fake news—false or misleading information presented as news—now abounds. As information about firms becomes decreasingly credible, can stakeholders make effective use of their influence to drive firms to engage in socially responsible behaviors? We assembled this special issue to explore the extent to which the social evaluations that underpin stakeholder cognition and action have been compromised and to assess how this affects firm behavior in t…
Bridging the relevance gap
Sources of Variation in Cardiovascular Care Cascades
This retrospective cohort study found that among patients who visited the ED with elevated ischemic risk, attrition in follow-up care was concentrated early in care cascades and most pronounced among those with noncommercial health insurance. This stepwise analytic framework offers a novel, reproducible approach for health systems to identify where and for whom care gaps arise, which can enable targeted interventions to improve equity and efficie…
Measures to Prevent and Control Covid-19 in Skilled Nursing Facilities
This scoping review found that although many preventive measures were implemented in SNFs in the US throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, few were based on clear evidence of their effectiveness. Pharmacologic measures, such as vaccination and antiviral treatment, had more robust evidence supporting their efficacy than nonpharmacologic interventions. Using the scarce resources and staff of SNFs on measures of questionable effectiveness could distract …
Building a Reliable National Provider Directory—Lessons From Other Sectors
This Viewpoint discusses how a national health care provider database could benefit from lessons learned in the public and private sectors
Subspecialization of Surgical Specialties in the US
This cohort study found that subspecialization has considerably reshaped the surgical workforce, concentrating care among subspecialists while narrowing the procedural scope of generalist surgeons. These shifts raise concerns about access to generalist care, particularly in regions with declining generalist supply, and suggest the need for policies that consider both specialization and geographic equity in surgical workforce planning
Strengthening Our Cities
Medicare Payment for Opioid Treatment Programs
This study showed that since the initiation of Medicare OTP coverage in 2020, there has been a rapid increase in the number of Medicare beneficiaries with claims for OTP services for MOUD, and most OTPs have begun billing Medicare. Patients in OTPs were more likely to be urban residents and members of racial or ethnic minority groups than the patients receiving other forms of MOUD
Clinical Risk and Outpatient Therapy Utilization for Covid-19 in the Medicare Population
In this cross-sectional study, outpatient COVID-19 treatment was disproportionately accessed by beneficiaries at lower risk for severe infection, undermining its potential public health benefit. Undertreatment was not driven by lack of clinical access or treatment contraindications
Racial and Ethnic Differences in Telemedicine Use
The results of this cross-sectional study of US Medicare enrollees suggest that although nationally, Black individuals, Hispanic individuals, and individuals of other racial groups received more telemedicine visits during the pandemic and disproportionately lived in geographic regions with higher telemedicine use, after controlling for geographic region, Black individuals, Hispanic individuals, and individuals of other racial groups received fewe…
Taking Stock of Care Delivery Transformation
This Viewpoint discusses how the same realism and rigor for evaluating biomedical innovations can be applied to the science of care delivery
Use of Telemedicine and Quality of Care Among Medicare Enrollees With Serious Mental Illness
In this cohort study of Medicare beneficiaries with serious mental illness, patients receiving care from practices that had a higher level of telemedicine use during the COVID-19 pandemic had more mental health visits per year compared with prepandemic levels, with no differential changes in other observed quality metrics over the same period
Trends in Outpatient Telemedicine Utilization Among Rural Medicare Beneficiaries, 2010 to 2019
In this cross-sectional study of telemedicine utilization before the COVID-19 pandemic, there was sustained growth in telemedicine visits among rural beneficiaries covered by the Medicare program, especially care delivered by nurse practitioners and other nonphysician clinicians. The prepandemic model of telemedicine provided in local health care settings may be a viable modality to maintain in rural communities
Association of eConsult Implementation With Access to Specialist Care in a Large Urban Safety-Net System
In this quality improvement study, implementation of eConsults at a large multi-specialty safety-net system was associated with improvements in appointment scheduling rates and wait times. Despite an additional electronic health record transition, eConsults are a promising health care delivery tool for increasing access to specialty care
Beyond Good Intentions
Are corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives providing the societal good that they promise? After decades of CSR studies, we do not have an answer. In this review, we analyze progression of the CSR literature toward assessing the performance of CSR initiatives, identify factors that have limited the literature’s progress, and suggest a new approach to the study of CSR that can overcome these limits. We begin with comprehensive bibliometr…
Nursing Homes Are Ground Zero for Covid-19 Pandemic
At the start of 2020, the Life Care Center of Kirkland nursing home in Kirkland
Stigma as a fundamental hindrance to the United States opioid overdose crisis response
Alexander Tsai and co-authors discuss the role of stigma in responses to the US opioid crisis.
The Association Between Primary Care Physician Compensation and Patterns of Care Delivery, 2012-2015
As health systems seek to incentivize physicians to deliver high-value care, the relationship between physician compensation and health care delivery is an important knowledge gap. To examine physician compensation nationally and its relationship with care delivery, we examined 2012-2015 cross-sectional data on ambulatory primary care physician visits from the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey. Among 175 762 office visits with 3826 primary …
Using Administrative Data to Identify Naturally Occurring Networks of Physicians
BACKGROUND: Physicians naturally form networks. Networks could form a rational basis for Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) for defined populations of Medicare beneficiaries. OBJECTIVES: To use methods from network science to identify naturally occurring networks of physicians that might be best suited to becoming ACOs. RESEARCH DESIGN, SUBJECTS, AND MEASURES: Using nationally representative claims data from the Medicare program for CY 2006 on…
Does it pay to be really good? addressing the shape of the relationship between social and financial performance
Building on the theoretical argument that a firm's ability to profit from social responsibility depends upon its stakeholder influence capacity (SIC), we bring together contrasting literatures on the relationship between corporate social performance (CSP) and corporate financial performance (CFP) to hypothesize that the CSP‐CFP relationship is U‐shaped. Our results support this hypothesis. We find that firms with low CSP have higher CFP than firm…
The Oxford Handbook Of Corporate Reputation
Physician Patient-sharing Networks and the Cost and Intensity of Care in US Hospitals
BACKGROUND: There is substantial variation in the cost and intensity of care delivered by US hospitals. We assessed how the structure of patient-sharing networks of physicians affiliated with hospitals might contribute to this variation. METHODS: We constructed hospital-based professional networks based on patient-sharing ties among 61,461 physicians affiliated with 528 hospitals in 51 hospital referral regions in the US using Medicare data on cl…
Stakeholder influence capacity and the variability of financial returns to corporate social responsibility
I argue that research on the business case for corporate social responsibility must account for the path-dependent nature of firm-stakeholder relations, and I develop the construct of stakeholder influence capacity to fill this void. This construct helps explain why the effects of corporate social responsibility on corporate financial performance vary across firms and time. I develop a set of propositions to aid future research on the contingenci…
Throwing a Curve at Socially Responsible Investing Research
This paper primarily focuses on Entine's assertion that SRI research is hopelessly flawed. Although SRI researchers have primarily chosen to pluck the low-hanging fruit in this line of inquiry, it is possible to obtain unbiased higher level insight. SRI research best functions as a means of helping firms and investors identify what the market wants. As Entine points out, the definition of what is and is not moral behavior for a firm is a quagmire…
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Throwing a Curve at Socially Responsible Investing Research
This paper primarily focuses on Entine's assertion that SRI research is hopelessly flawed. Although SRI researchers have primarily chosen to pluck the low-hanging fruit in this line of inquiry, it is possible to obtain unbiased higher level insight. SRI research best functions as a means of helping firms and investors identify what the market wants. As Entine points out, the definition of what is and is not moral behavior for a firm is a quagmire…
Stakeholder influence capacity and the variability of financial returns to corporate social responsibility
I argue that research on the business case for corporate social responsibility must account for the path-dependent nature of firm-stakeholder relations, and I develop the construct of stakeholder influence capacity to fill this void. This construct helps explain why the effects of corporate social responsibility on corporate financial performance vary across firms and time. I develop a set of propositions to aid future research on the contingenci…
Does it pay to be really good? addressing the shape of the relationship between social and financial performance
Building on the theoretical argument that a firm's ability to profit from social responsibility depends upon its stakeholder influence capacity (SIC), we bring together contrasting literatures on the relationship between corporate social performance (CSP) and corporate financial performance (CFP) to hypothesize that the CSP‐CFP relationship is U‐shaped. Our results support this hypothesis. We find that firms with low CSP have higher CFP than firm…
The Oxford Handbook Of Corporate Reputation
Physician Patient-sharing Networks and the Cost and Intensity of Care in US Hospitals
BACKGROUND: There is substantial variation in the cost and intensity of care delivered by US hospitals. We assessed how the structure of patient-sharing networks of physicians affiliated with hospitals might contribute to this variation. METHODS: We constructed hospital-based professional networks based on patient-sharing ties among 61,461 physicians affiliated with 528 hospitals in 51 hospital referral regions in the US using Medicare data on cl…
Using Administrative Data to Identify Naturally Occurring Networks of Physicians
BACKGROUND: Physicians naturally form networks. Networks could form a rational basis for Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) for defined populations of Medicare beneficiaries. OBJECTIVES: To use methods from network science to identify naturally occurring networks of physicians that might be best suited to becoming ACOs. RESEARCH DESIGN, SUBJECTS, AND MEASURES: Using nationally representative claims data from the Medicare program for CY 2006 on…
Stigma as a fundamental hindrance to the United States opioid overdose crisis response
Alexander Tsai and co-authors discuss the role of stigma in responses to the US opioid crisis.
The Association Between Primary Care Physician Compensation and Patterns of Care Delivery, 2012-2015
As health systems seek to incentivize physicians to deliver high-value care, the relationship between physician compensation and health care delivery is an important knowledge gap. To examine physician compensation nationally and its relationship with care delivery, we examined 2012-2015 cross-sectional data on ambulatory primary care physician visits from the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey. Among 175 762 office visits with 3826 primary …
Beyond Good Intentions
Are corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives providing the societal good that they promise? After decades of CSR studies, we do not have an answer. In this review, we analyze progression of the CSR literature toward assessing the performance of CSR initiatives, identify factors that have limited the literature’s progress, and suggest a new approach to the study of CSR that can overcome these limits. We begin with comprehensive bibliometr…
Nursing Homes Are Ground Zero for Covid-19 Pandemic
At the start of 2020, the Life Care Center of Kirkland nursing home in Kirkland
Trends in Outpatient Telemedicine Utilization Among Rural Medicare Beneficiaries, 2010 to 2019
In this cross-sectional study of telemedicine utilization before the COVID-19 pandemic, there was sustained growth in telemedicine visits among rural beneficiaries covered by the Medicare program, especially care delivered by nurse practitioners and other nonphysician clinicians. The prepandemic model of telemedicine provided in local health care settings may be a viable modality to maintain in rural communities
Association of eConsult Implementation With Access to Specialist Care in a Large Urban Safety-Net System
In this quality improvement study, implementation of eConsults at a large multi-specialty safety-net system was associated with improvements in appointment scheduling rates and wait times. Despite an additional electronic health record transition, eConsults are a promising health care delivery tool for increasing access to specialty care
Taking Stock of Care Delivery Transformation
This Viewpoint discusses how the same realism and rigor for evaluating biomedical innovations can be applied to the science of care delivery
Use of Telemedicine and Quality of Care Among Medicare Enrollees With Serious Mental Illness
In this cohort study of Medicare beneficiaries with serious mental illness, patients receiving care from practices that had a higher level of telemedicine use during the COVID-19 pandemic had more mental health visits per year compared with prepandemic levels, with no differential changes in other observed quality metrics over the same period
Strengthening Our Cities
Medicare Payment for Opioid Treatment Programs
This study showed that since the initiation of Medicare OTP coverage in 2020, there has been a rapid increase in the number of Medicare beneficiaries with claims for OTP services for MOUD, and most OTPs have begun billing Medicare. Patients in OTPs were more likely to be urban residents and members of racial or ethnic minority groups than the patients receiving other forms of MOUD
Clinical Risk and Outpatient Therapy Utilization for Covid-19 in the Medicare Population
In this cross-sectional study, outpatient COVID-19 treatment was disproportionately accessed by beneficiaries at lower risk for severe infection, undermining its potential public health benefit. Undertreatment was not driven by lack of clinical access or treatment contraindications
Racial and Ethnic Differences in Telemedicine Use
The results of this cross-sectional study of US Medicare enrollees suggest that although nationally, Black individuals, Hispanic individuals, and individuals of other racial groups received more telemedicine visits during the pandemic and disproportionately lived in geographic regions with higher telemedicine use, after controlling for geographic region, Black individuals, Hispanic individuals, and individuals of other racial groups received fewe…
Measures to Prevent and Control Covid-19 in Skilled Nursing Facilities
This scoping review found that although many preventive measures were implemented in SNFs in the US throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, few were based on clear evidence of their effectiveness. Pharmacologic measures, such as vaccination and antiviral treatment, had more robust evidence supporting their efficacy than nonpharmacologic interventions. Using the scarce resources and staff of SNFs on measures of questionable effectiveness could distract …
Building a Reliable National Provider Directory—Lessons From Other Sectors
This Viewpoint discusses how a national health care provider database could benefit from lessons learned in the public and private sectors
Subspecialization of Surgical Specialties in the US
This cohort study found that subspecialization has considerably reshaped the surgical workforce, concentrating care among subspecialists while narrowing the procedural scope of generalist surgeons. These shifts raise concerns about access to generalist care, particularly in regions with declining generalist supply, and suggest the need for policies that consider both specialization and geographic equity in surgical workforce planning
Evaluating Organizations in an Age of Absurdity
Fake news—false or misleading information presented as news—now abounds. As information about firms becomes decreasingly credible, can stakeholders make effective use of their influence to drive firms to engage in socially responsible behaviors? We assembled this special issue to explore the extent to which the social evaluations that underpin stakeholder cognition and action have been compromised and to assess how this affects firm behavior in t…
Bridging the relevance gap
Sources of Variation in Cardiovascular Care Cascades
This retrospective cohort study found that among patients who visited the ED with elevated ischemic risk, attrition in follow-up care was concentrated early in care cascades and most pronounced among those with noncommercial health insurance. This stepwise analytic framework offers a novel, reproducible approach for health systems to identify where and for whom care gaps arise, which can enable targeted interventions to improve equity and efficie…
Medicine (12 works) · Health care (9 works) · Business (8 works) · Family medicine (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 (5 works) · Healthcare Systems and Technology (5 works) · Internal Medicine (5 works) · Primary Care and Health Outcomes (5 works)