Katherine Baicker

Katherine Baicker (born May 23, 1971) is an American

She currently serves on the Editorial Boards of Health Affairs, the Journal of Health Economics, and the Forum for Health Economics and Policy; as Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of AcademyHealth; on the Congressional Budget Office's Panel of Health Advisers; and was a Commissioner on the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission. She is a Director at Eli Lilly and Company.^[2]

In March 2023, she became the fifteenth Provost of the University of Chicago.^[3]

Research

Her research areas include health economics, welfare, and public finance, with a particular focus on the financing of health insurance, spending on public programs, and fiscal federalism.

She believes in Medicare copayments as a way of reducing medical spending on unnecessary care. Copayments should be limited to a maximum patient contribution, to avoid patients having to pay catastrophic expenses that would defeat the purpose of insurance. Medicare clients should not have to buy supplemental insurance to avoid that risk. But copayments should be low for services that are effective at improving health.^[4]

Her research has been published in journals such as

• Oregon Medicaid health experiment

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