Michael Chernew

Michael Chernew is the Leonard D. Schaeffer Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Chernew’s research examines opportunities to control health care spending growth while maintaining or improving quality of care. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Panel of Health Advisers at the Congressional Budget and past chair of MedPAC. He has received career achievement awards from AcademyHealth (the Reinhardt Award) and AUPHA (the William B. Graham prize). Dr. Chernew was named as a Highly Cited Researcher (Top 1%) by Thomson Reuters, and has won awards from the National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality for his published work.

Michael Chernew

Policy Briefs

5.7%

of Commercial Health Care Spending
(1.8% of Total Health Spending)
Providers

Capping Provider Prices and Price Growth in the US Commercial Health Sector