Peter A. Ubel, MD

Articles

September 20th 2024

Systemic Treatments for Advanced Prostate Cancer: Relationship Between Health Insurance Plan and Treatment Costs

Deborah R. Kaye, MD, MS Hui-Jie Lee, PhD Alexander Gordee, MA Daniel J. George, MD Charles D. Scales Jr, MD, MSHS Peter A. Ubel, MD M. Kate Bundorf, PhD, MBA, MPH

The authors examine how insurer and patient out-of-pocket payments for advanced prostate cancer differ by drug and health plan type and describe the relationship between these payments and utilization.

September 20th 2016

New Strategies for Aligning Physicians With Health System Incentives

Amol S. Navathe, MD, PhD Aditi P. Sen, MA Meredith B. Rosenthal, PhD Robert M. Pearl, MD Peter A. Ubel, MD Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD, PhD Kevin G. Volpp, MD, PhD

This article details strategies based on principles from psychology and economics that health systems may use to align with physicians.

September 15th 2015

The Utility of Cost Discussions Between Patients With Cancer and Oncologists

S. Yousuf Zafar, MD, MHS Fumiko Chino, MD Peter A. Ubel, MD Christel Rushing, MS Gregory Samsa, PhD Ivy Altomare, MD Jonathan Nicolla, MBA Deborah Schrag, MD James A. Tulsky, MD Amy P. Abernethy, MD, PhD Jeffery M. Peppercorn, MD, MPH

Many patients with cancer desire cost discussions with doctors, but those discussions are rare. Nevertheless, cost discussions may lower patient costs-usually without altering treatment.

June 1st 2003

When Money Is Saved by Reducing Healthcare Costs, Where Do US Primary Care Physicians Think the Money Goes?

David A. Asch, MD, MBA Christopher Jepson, PhD John C. Hershey, PhD Jonathan Baron, PhD Peter A. Ubel, MD

January 1st 1997

Managed Care Organizations Should Not Disclose Their Physicians' Financial Incentives

Genevieve C. Noone Peter A. Ubel, MD

March 1st 1996

Can We Continue to Afford Organ Transplants in an Era of Managed Care?

Peter A. Ubel, MD