Eugene Lin, MD, MS

Eugene Lin, MD, MS, is a health services researcher with a focus on economic policies pertaining to nephrology. His research interests are in cost-effectiveness and assessing the impact of financial incentives on patient outcomes. During the 2017-2018 academic year he was a visiting scholar in the USC Schaeffer Center, working in collaboration with Schaeffer faculty investigating the impact of third-party premium payments on the Affordable Care Act insurance exchanges. He recently concluded a project studying the appropriateness of 30-day rehospitalizations in dialysis patients (NIH/NIDDK F32) and is studying the economic and social determinants of home dialysis drop-out (NIH/NIDDK K08). He also has interests in how Medicare policies affect the billing and delivery of health care by physicians and other providers, optimization of healthcare delivery, and has recently studied the cost-effectiveness of a multi-disciplinary care program in chronic kidney disease. Eugene completed a postdoctoral fellowship in nephrology at the Stanford School of Medicine in 2018 and a MS in Health Services Research at Stanford University in 2017. He received a BS in biology (minor in mathematics) from Stanford University, an MD from Baylor College of Medicine, and completed his Internal Medicine residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

Recent Work

Response to CMS Request for Information on Medicare Advantage Data

Schaeffer Scholars provided recommendations on improvements related to publicly available data, as well as administrative Encounter and Part D data.

By Grace McCormack, PhD, Patricia Ferido, Paul Ginsburg, PhD, Mireille Jacobson, PhD, Geoffrey Joyce, PhD, Steve M. Lieberman, MPhil, MA, Eugene Lin, MD, MS, Victoria Shier, PhD, Neeraj Sood, PhD, Johanna Thunell, PhD, Erin Trish, PhD and Julie Zissimopoulos, PhD
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Medicare Can Follow Blazed Trails to Revitalize Alzheimer’s Care

If Medicare is allowed to step up to the challenge of Alzheimer’s, patients could receive affordable and good quality care as soon as their disease develops.

By Jakub Hlávka, PhD and Eugene Lin, MD, MS
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Comments to CMS on Proposed Guidance for Coverage with Evidence Development

Eleven Schaeffer fellows cosigned a comment letter to Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services providing recommendations on the proposed Coverage with Evidence Development Guidance.

By Alice Chen, PhD, Joseph Grogan, JD, Mireille Jacobson, PhD, Geoffrey Joyce, PhD, Darius Lakdawalla, PhD, Barry Liden, JD, Eugene Lin, MD, MS, Karen Van Nuys, PhD, William Padula, PhD, Alison Sexton Ward, PhD and Julie Zissimopoulos, PhD
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Lowering Medicare Advantage Overpayments from Favorable Selection by Reforming Risk Adjustment

One potential path for reducing Medicare Advantage (MA) overpayments from favorable selection is reforming the current administered payment approaches linking spending in fee-for-service (FFS) to MA rates.

By Steve M. Lieberman, MPhil, MA, Paul Ginsburg, PhD and Eugene Lin, MD, MS
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Hidden Physician Financial Conflicts of Interest in Dialysis

Nephrologists’ ownership of dialysis facilities doesn’t affect outcomes, but why is it so secret?

By Genevieve P. Kanter, PhD and Eugene Lin, MD, MS
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Recent Work

Response to CMS Request for Information on Medicare Advantage Data

Medicare Can Follow Blazed Trails to Revitalize Alzheimer’s Care

Comments to CMS on Proposed Guidance for Coverage with Evidence Development

Lowering Medicare Advantage Overpayments from Favorable Selection by Reforming Risk Adjustment

Hidden Physician Financial Conflicts of Interest in Dialysis