Sunita Desai

Biographic Data

ID7146014
NAMESunita Desai
GIVEN NAMESSunita
FAMILY NAMEDesai
SIGNATUREDESAI S
AFFILIATIONSNew York University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • Hospital Mergers, Hospital Choice, and Care Quality for Pregnant Enrollees in Medicaid

    Open AccessSunita M Desai, Sunita Desai et al.ARTICLEJAMA Health Forum2025

    This cross-sectional study of labor and delivery admissions among patients with Medicaid found that hospital mergers were associated with an increased probability of admission to safety-net hospitals, lower probability of NICU-equipped hospitals, and worsening in 1 obstetric quality metric. These changes differed for Medicaid vs commercially insured patients and varied among Medicaid patients in urban vs rural markets. The findings underscore the…

  • Medicaid Value-Based Payments and Health Care Use for Patients With Mental Illness

    Open AccessAdam Gary Lewis, Ashley Lewis et al.ARTICLEJAMA Health Forum2023

    In this cohort study, Medicaid value-based payment reform was statistically significantly associated with an increase in behavioral health visits and a reduction in mental health emergency department visits for patients with mental illness. Medicaid value-based payment may be effective at altering health care utilization in patients with mental illness

  • Association of Insurance Mix and Diagnostic Coding Practices in New York State Hospitals

    Open AccessKacie L Dragan, Sunita M Desai et al.ARTICLEJAMA Health Forum2022

    In this cross-sectional study of Medicaid enrollees, admission to a hospital with a higher private payer share was associated with more diagnoses on Medicaid claims. This suggests payment policy may drive differential investments in infrastructure to document diagnoses. This may create a feedback loop that exacerbates resource inequity

  • Assessment of US Pharmacies Contracted With Health Care Institutions Under the 340B Drug Pricing Program by Neighborhood Socioeconomic Characteristics

    Open AccessJohn K Lin, Pengxiang Li et al.ARTICLEJAMA Health Forum2022

    This cross-sectional study assesses pharmacy participation in the 340B Drug Pricing Program following the 2010 expansion and the extent to which growth has occurred in socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhoods

  • Estimation of Potential Savings Associated With Switching Medication Formulation

    Open AccessSunita M Desai, Sunita Desai et al.ARTICLEJAMA Health Forum2022

    This cross-sectional study describes the price differences between capsule and tablet or ointment and cream forms of prescription drugs for insured patients

  • Changes in Hospital Referral Patterns to Skilled Nursing Facilities Under the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program

    K Lucy Kim, Li Li et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2019References: 14

    BACKGROUND: The Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) penalizes hospitals for higher-than-expected readmission rates. Almost 20% of Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) patients receive postacute care in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) after hospitalization. SNF patients have high readmission rates. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to investigate the association between changes in hospital referral patterns to SNFs and HRRP penalty…

  • Who Uses a Price Transparency Tool? Implications for Increasing Consumer Engagement

    Open AccessRebecca A Gourevitch, Sunita Desai et al.ARTICLEINQUIRY The Journal of Health…2017

    Despite the recent proliferation of price transparency tools, consumer use and awareness of these tools is low. Better strategies to increase the use of price transparency tools are needed. To inform such efforts, we studied who is most likely to use a price transparency tool. We conducted a cross-sectional study of use of the Truven Treatment Cost Calculator among employees at 2 large companies for the 12 months following the introduction of the…