A MARK FENDRICK

Biographic Data

ID5538127
NAMEA MARK FENDRICK
GIVEN NAMESA MARK
FAMILY NAMEFENDRICK
SIGNATUREFENDRICK A M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Michigan
ORCID0000-0002-7734-6742
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS23
TOTAL CITATIONS6
WORKS AS AUTHOR23
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1987
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Projected Savings From Reducing Low-Value Services in Medicare

    Open AccessDavid D Kim, A MARK FENDRICKARTICLEJAMA Health Forum2025

    This cross-sectional study estimates the utilization and potential savings achievable by reducing 47 low-value services used by Medicare beneficiaries

  • Fiscal Impact of Expanded Medicare Coverage for GLP-1 Receptor Agonists to Treat Obesity

    Open AccessJennifer H Hwang, Neda Laiteerapong et al.ARTICLEJAMA Health Forum2025

    This economic evaluation estimates that expanded Medicare coverage for GLP-1RAs would increase access and reduce obesity-related comorbidities but impose substantial costs over 10 years. Even with a moderate scenario (5% uptake, 20% adherence, and 30% additional price discount), net spending was still projected to reach $8 billion over a decade, underscoring the need for further price reductions, lower-cost strategies to prevent weight regain, an…

  • Association Between Out-of-Pocket Insurance Costs and Psychotherapy Utilization Among Commercially Insured Birthing Individuals

    Open AccessStephanie V Hall, Andrea Pangori et al.ARTICLEWomen s Health Issues2025

  • No Evidence on Association Between Prospective Exposure to Out-of-Pocket Cost Information and Appointment Cancelations or No-Shows

    Open AccessBrett Mitchell, Brae Mitchell et al.ARTICLEINQUIRY The Journal of Health…2025

    Health care price transparency aims to empower patients to make better-informed purchasing decisions. However, the prospective availability of patients' out-of-pocket costs may lead to an increased rate of forgone care. The objective of this study was to examine whether obtaining a prospective out-of-pocket cost estimate is associated with the likelihood of canceling or not arriving at a scheduled outpatient health care appointment. We surveyed a…

  • Redefining Cancer Screening Coverage—Screening to Diagnosis

    Open AccessCrystal D Taylor, A MARK FENDRICK et al.ARTICLEJAMA Health Forum2024

    This Viewpoint discusses financial barriers for additional diagnostic steps after patients receive abnormal cancer screening test results

  • How Might Patients and Physicians Use Transparent Health Care Prices to Guide Decisions and Improve Health Care Affordability

    Open AccessAnnika Brakebill, A MARK FENDRICK et al.ARTICLEThe AMA Journal of Ethic2022

    Many Americans face high cost-sharing demands from their health insurers. While there is hope that prices for health services are becoming more and more transparent, even increased availability of price information will not always translate into optimal, equitable health and financial outcomes for patients. This commentary on a case argues why transparent pricing is an ethical imperative and identifies steps that health sector stakeholders should…

  • Coverage for the Entire Cervical Cancer Screening Process Without Cost-Sharing

    Open AccessAllison Ruff, Diane M Harper et al.ARTICLEWomen s Health Issues2022

  • The Price Will Be Right—How to Help Patients and Providers Benefit from the New CMS Transparency Rule

    Open AccessJeffrey T Kullgren, A MARK FENDRICKARTICLEJAMA Health Forum2021

    Jeffrey T. Kullgren, MD, MS, MPH; Elizabeth Q. Cliff, MS; Christopher Krenz, BA; Brady T. West, PhD; Helen Levy, PhD; A. Mark Fendrick, MD; Angela Fagerlin, PhD

  • Cost Sharing and Utilization of Postpartum Intrauterine Devices and Contraceptive Implants Among Commercially Insured Women

    Open AccessMichelle H Moniz, Ann B Soliman et al.ARTICLEWomen s Health Issues2019

  • Attitudes About Consumer Strategies Among Americans in High-deductible Health Plans

    Betsy Q Cliff, Christopher Krenz et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2019References: 19

    BACKGROUND: More than 70 million Americans are enrolled in a high-deductible health plan (HDHP), with high upfront cost-sharing to encourage strategies such as price shopping to mitigate out-of-pocket spending. Recent research suggests HDHP enrollees are reluctant to engage in these consumer strategies, but there is little information on why. OBJECTIVES: To describe associations between HDHP enrollees' attitudes about and intent to engage in cons…

  • Women’s Health and the Affordable Care Act

    Kelli Stidham Hall, A MARK FENDRICK et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2014Cited by: 1References: 8

    Our population-based survey of 1078 randomly sampled US women, aged 18 to 55 years, sought to characterize their understanding of and attitudes toward the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Most women, especially socially disadvantaged groups, had negative or uncertain attitudes toward the ACA and limited understanding of its health benefits, including its relevance for their own health service coverage and utilization. Our findings are important for con…

  • Cost of Contraceptive Methods to Privately Insured Women in the United States

    Open AccessStacie B Dusetzina, Vanessa K Dalton et al.ARTICLEWomen s Health Issues2013

  • The Impact of Out-of-Pocket Costs on the Use of Intrauterine Contraception Among Women With Employer-sponsored Insurance

    Lydia E Pace, Stacie B Dusetzina et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2013References: 8

    BACKGROUND: Long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) is highly effective but also has higher initiation costs than oral contraceptive methods, which may contribute to relatively low use. The Affordable Care Act requires most private insurance plans to cover contraceptive services without patient cost-sharing. Whether this mandate will increase LARC use is unknown. OBJECTIVE: To assess the relationship between cost-sharing and use of LARC among…

  • The Effect of a Large Regional Health Plan’s Value-based Insurance Design Program on Statin Use

    Matthew B Frank, A MARK FENDRICK et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2012References: 15

    BACKGROUND: Cost-sharing requirements employed by health insurers to discourage the unnecessary use of medications may lead to underutilization of recommended treatment regimens and suboptimal quality of care. Value-based insurance design (VBID) programs seek to address these problems by lowering copayments to promote adherence to "high-value" medications that have been proven to be clinically beneficial. VBID evaluations to date have focused on …

  • Healthcare Utilization in Community-Acquired Pneumonia Episodes of Care

    Pamela B Landsman, Dean G Smith et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2009References: 28

    OBJECTIVE: Compare healthcare utilization and total payments for community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) episodes-of-care among 5 health plan designs spanning the continuum of managed care. RESEARCH DESIGN: Medical and prescription claims analysis of CAP episodes among enrollees of employer-sponsored health plans. Episode characteristics, healthcare utilization, and payments were compared across fee-for-service, Preferred Provider Organizations (PPO),…

  • Colorectal cancer screening behavior in women attending screening mammography

    Open AccessRuth C Carlos, A MARK FENDRICK et al.ARTICLEWomen s Health Issues2005

  • The Health Effects of Restricting Prescription Medication Use Because of Cost

    Michele Heisler, Kenneth M Langa et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2004References: 36

    BACKGROUND: High out-of-pocket expenditures for prescription medications could lead people with chronic illnesses to restrict their use of these medications. Whether adults experience adverse health outcomes after having restricted medication use because of cost is not known. METHODS: We analyzed data from 2 prospective cohort studies of adults who reported regularly taking prescription medications using 2 waves of the Health and Retirement Study…

  • Informal Caregiving for Diabetes and Diabetic Complications Among Elderly Americans

    Kenneth M Langa, Sandeep Vijan et al.ARTICLEThe Journals of Gerontology…2002Cited by: 5References: 2

    Diabetes imposes a substantial burden on elderly individuals, their families, and society, both through increased rates of disability and the significant time that informal caregivers must spend helping address the associated functional limitations. Future evaluations of the costs of diabetes, and the cost-effectiveness of diabetes interventions, should consider the significant informal caregiving costs associated with the disease

  • National estimates of the quantity and cost of informal caregiving for the elderly with dementia

    Kenneth M Langa, Michael E Chernew et al.ARTICLEJournal of General Internal…2001

  • Specialist and Generalist Physicians' Adoption of Antibiotic Therapy to Eradicate Helicobacter pylori Infection

    Richard A Hirth, A MARK FENDRICK et al.ARTICLEMedical Care1996References: 8

    OBJECTIVES: The authors examine how specialist and generalist physicians adapted their practice patterns to emerging information on the role of Helicobacter pylori in peptic ulcer disease (PUD). METHODS: Data were collected via a mail survey sent to national random samples of gastroenterologists, family practitioners, and general internists in April 1994. A Cox proportional hazards regression was used to evaluate the determinants of the timing of…

  • Hospital Adoption of Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy

    A MARK FENDRICK, José J Escarce et al.ARTICLEMedical Care1994

    Fendrick, A. Mark MD*,†,‡,§,∥; ESCARCE, JOSÉ J. MD†,‡,§,∥; MCLANE, CLYDE BS§,∥; SHEA, JUDY A. PHD†,‡,§,∥; Schwartz, J. Sanford MD†,‡,§,∥ Author Information

  • Impact of Initial Triage Decisions on Nursing Intensity for Patients With Acute Chest Pain

    Thomas H Lee, E Francis Cook et al.ARTICLEMedical Care1990

    The results of a prospective evaluation of the patient-specific correlates of nursing intensity for 183 consecutive emergency room patients admitted for evaluation of acute chest pain, including 33 (18%) with acute myocardial infarction (AMI), are reported. These correlates were measured with a previously-validated, commercially-available patient classification tool (Medicus). In multiple linear regression analysis that adjusted for the effects o…

  • Waiting for Care

    Bernard S Bloom, A MARK FENDRICKARTICLEMedical Care1987

    Queues arise in medical care and serve as allocators in the absence of an effective market and when resources become perceptibly constrained. This is essentially the case in all countries where money is not the means for gaining access to medical services. A study estimated that the total wait in England was 96 days for nonemergency care leading to hospitalization, including primary and specialty ambulatory care, for that one quarter of patients …