Erin Duffy

Biographic Data

ID7098870
NAMEErin Duffy
GIVEN NAMESErin
FAMILY NAMEDuffy
SIGNATUREDUFFY E
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Southern California
ORCID0000-0003-4948-1872
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Failing to Account for Real-World Complexities in Health Policy

    Open AccessLanhee J Chen, Erin Duffy et al.ARTICLEJAMA Health Forum2026

    This JAMA Forum discusses the complexities of health care policy in the US, unique aspects of health care costs, and the challenges associated with achieving affordable health care for everyone

  • Patient Repayment of US Hospital Bills From 2018 to 2024

    Open AccessBenedic Ippolito, Erin Trish et al.ARTICLEJAMA Health Forum2025

    This cross-sectional study found that patient cost sharing repayments were incomplete and have fallen in more recent years, which result in both medical debts for patients and collections shortfalls for hospitals and clinicians. These findings suggest that changes to insurance plan design or the treatment of medical debt are among several factors that may contribute to observed results; if declines in cost sharing repayment continue, hospitals an…

  • Disparate Patient Advocacy When Facing Unaffordable and Problematic Medical Bills

    Open AccessErin Duffy, Erin L Duffy et al.ARTICLEJAMA Health Forum2024

    This cross-sectional survey of a representative sample of patients in the US found that most respondents who self-advocated achieved bill corrections and payment relief. Differences in self-advocacy may be exacerbating socioeconomic inequalities in medical debt burden, as those with less education, lower financial literacy, and the uninsured were less likely to self-advocate. Policies that streamline the administrative burden or shift it from pat…

  • Prevalence of Medical Payment Products Promoted on US Hospitals’ Websites

    Open AccessSamantha Randall, Nicholas Wong et al.ARTICLEJAMA Health Forum2024

    This cross-sectional study examines the prevalence of hospital-promoted medical payment products (MPPs) by whether hospitals offered any MPP or an interest-bearing MPP

  • Commercial Payments for Covid-19–Associated Inpatient Stays in 2020

    Open AccessRose Kerber, Erin Duffy et al.ARTICLEJAMA Health Forum2023

    This cross-sectional study reports the allowed reimbursement amounts for inpatient COVID-19 care for different types of hospitals

  • Physician Compensation Arrangements and Financial Performance Incentives in US Health Systems

    Open AccessRachel O Reid, Ashlyn Tom et al.ARTICLEJAMA Health Forum2022

    The results of this cross-sectional study suggest that PCPs and specialists despite receiving value-based reimbursement incentives from payers, the compensation of health system PCPs and specialists was dominated by volume-based incentives designed to maximize health systems revenue

  • Comparison of Estimated No Surprises Act Qualifying Payment Amounts and Payments to In-Network and Out-of-Network Emergency Medicine Professionals

    Open AccessErin Duffy, Erin Lindsey Duffy et al.ARTICLEJAMA Health Forum2022

    The findings of this cross-sectional study of US commercial insurance claims suggest that the NSA may have heterogeneous implications for out-of-network payments and negotiating leverage experienced by emergency medicine physicians in different geographic markets, with the potential for greater implications in the self-funded market

  • Delivery of Preventive Oral Health Services by Rurality

    Open AccessCaroline K Geiger, Ashley M Kranz et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Rural Health2019

    PURPOSE: Integrating oral health care into primary care has been promoted as a strategy to increase delivery of preventive oral health services (POHS) to young children, particularly in rural areas where few dentists practice. Using a multistate sample of Medicaid claims, we examined a child's odds of receiving POHS in a medical office by county rurality. METHODS: We used 2012-2014 Medicaid Analytic extract claims data for 6,275,456 children youn…

  • Impact of Medicaid Policy on the Oral Health of Publicly Insured Children

    Open AccessAshley M Kranz, Erin Duffy et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Health Journal2018

  • Association between type of health insurance and children's oral health, NHANES 2011–2014

    Open AccessErin Duffy, Erin L Duffy et al.ARTICLEJournal of Public Health Dentistry2018

    Oral health outcomes, after adjusting for covariates, were similar for children with public and private health insurance. However, children in low-income families and with less educated parents had greater odds of untreated caries and dental caries, suggesting that initiatives focused on publicly insured populations may miss other vulnerable children of low socioeconomic status