Nina Bickell
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY·Public Health & Epidemiology
Where people get outpatient care often depends on their health insurance, where they live and other characteristics. Surprisingly little research asks whether these differences change how care is delivered or how healthy patients end up.
- Fields
Public Health & Epidemiology
Medicine & Clinical Research
Social Science
- Topics
health services research
quality of care
ambulatory care
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through May 2027
What they work on
- Use NYC-wide visit data on 12 million patients to describe how mixed or uniform outpatient practices are by insurance and other factors, and test links to quality measures in pediatric preventive care, obstetric procedures and chronic disease management.
- Compare uniform and mixed practices within the Mount Sinai Health System, relating their configurations and policies to care quality and to the perceptions and experiences of patients, staff, providers and trainees.
- Track how system-wide standardization initiatives change quality measures over time, and use microsimulation to estimate how spreading successful strategies could affect cardiometabolic outcomes.
More about the research
Some clinics serve a mix of patients with different insurance, while others serve mostly one type. If quality differs between such practices, it needs to be measured and fixed so everyone gets high-quality care.
Why it matters
Patients with different insurance or from different neighborhoods may receive different quality of outpatient care. By measuring these gaps across New York City and tracking a health system's effort to standardize care, the study could give hospitals a practical blueprint for improving clinic quality. It also estimates what wider adoption might mean for heart and metabolic health.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
Cameron Kaplan
University of Southern California, CA·Public Health & Epidemiology
Quantify how the COVID-19 pandemic changed racial and ethnic disparities in receipt of appropriate primary care, chronic disease management and downstream health outcomes, using longitudinal individual-level claims and billing data.
Julia Rosenberg
Yale University, CT·Public Health & Epidemiology·Early-career
Determine whether state-level expansions of health insurance eligibility are associated with changes in children's insurance enrollment and preventive care, using repeated National Survey of Children's Health data.
Pragya Kakani
Weill Medical College of Cornell University, NY·Public Health & Epidemiology·Early-career
Compare the neighborhoods, primary care providers and older adult patients of retailer-owned primary care clinics (such as those owned by CVS, Walgreens, Walmart and Amazon) with other practices to identify implications for access and quality.
The school
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai: 45 labs on PI Pages, $1.0B a year on research, 62 research doctorates a year.
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