Peter S. Hussey

Peter Hussey is vice president and director of RAND Health Care, a senior policy researcher at RAND, and a professor at the RAND School of Public Policy. Previously, he directed the RAND Health Services Delivery Systems program. As director of RAND Health Care, he manages one of the world's largest health policy research organizations, with over 200 experts working on over 200 projects at any point in time. His research career has focused on innovations in health care payment and delivery. Hussey is the author of over 100 publications and has presented widely on health policy topics to practitioners, researchers, and policymakers. Prior to joining RAND, Hussey worked at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris, France. He received his Ph.D. in health policy and management from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Education

Ph.D. in health policy and management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; B.A. in biology, Johns Hopkins University

Selected Work

63.Anderson GF, Hussey PS, Petrosyan V, "It’s Still the Prices, Stupid: Why the U.S. Spends So Much on Health Care, and a Tribute to Uwe Reinhardt," Health Affairs, 38(1), 2019
Price RA, Sloss EM, Cefalu M, Farmer CM, Hussey PS, "Comparing Quality of Care in Veterans Affairs and Non-Veterans Affairs Settings," Journal of General Internal Medicine, 33(10), 2018
Hussey PS, Liu JL, White C, "The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act: Effects on Medicare Payment Policy and Spending," Health Affairs, 36(4), 2017
Hussey PS, Friedberg MW, Anhang Price R, Lovejoy SL, Damberg CL, "Episode-Based Approaches to Measuring Health Care Quality," Medical Care Research and Review, 74(2), 2017
Hussey PS, Timbie JW, Burgette LF, Wenger NS, Nyweide DJ, Kahn KL, "Appropriateness of Advanced Diagnostic Imaging Ordering Before and After Implementation of Clinical Decision Support Systems," JAMA, 313(21), 2015
Hussey PS, Wertheimer S, Mehrotra A, "The Association Between Health Care Quality and Cost: A Systematic Review," Annals of Internal Medicine , 158(1), 2013
Hussey PS, Ridgely MS, Rosenthal MB, "The PROMETHEUS Bundled Payment Experiment: Slow Start Shows Problems in Implementing New Payment Models," Health Affairs, 30(11), 2011
Hussey PS, Eibner C, Ridgely MS, McGlynn EA, "Controlling U.S. Health Care Spending — Separating Promising from Unpromising Approaches," New England Journal of Medicine, 361(22), 2009