Sasmira Matta
@SasmiraM
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Health Care Management PhD Student @Wharton
Philadelphia, PA
Joined September 2017
New work with @ChatterjeePaula and Atheendar Venkataramani from @OppforHealthLab. @Wharton @PennLDI.
Medicaid expansion was associated with increases in annual income for health care workers but only among those in the highest-income strata; improvements in health care sector finances may increase economic inequality among health care workers.
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Is anyone planning a session on nursing homes for #ASHEcon2025? Seyoun Kim and I have an abstract on nursing home quality ratings. DM me if you do! #econtwitter.
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RT @ChatterjeePaula: The health care workforce has sizable wage inequality, and lower wage workers are more likely to be in poor health.….
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RT @PennLDI: NEW: A study by LDI Fellows @SasmiraM, @ChatterjeePaula, and Atheendar Venkataramani found that when #Medicaid expanded, hospi….
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This study examines the difference in health care worker compensation between states that expanded and those that did not expand Medicaid after the passage of the Affordable Care Act.
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RT @JAMA_current: Medicaid expansion was associated with increases in annual income for health care workers but only among those in the hig….
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RT @HCMRonline: Learning from patients, new study on the impact of using patients’ narratives on patient experience scores: .
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RT @OppforHealthLab: 🚨 OfH member @SasmiraM co-authored a newly published study linked below! Patient narratives have been shown to elicit….
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RT @MattDEisenberg: HAPPY COINCIDENCE: I clicked on the related article link on our article and was happy to see another great research let….
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This study examines changes in unemployment among US health care workers from January 2015 to April 2022, before and after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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RT @lhnicholas: Rockstar PhD student @SasmiraM's first @JAMA_current paper out today, and @MattDEisenberg and I continue our twinsies theme….
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A fun surprise was seeing another HCW employment focused research letter published by former @JHSPH_HPM @JohnsHopkinsSPH colleague @MattDEisenberg, @julia_edd, @EmmaBethMcGinty examining changes in employment in behavioral health settings. Check it out!
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This study uses employment census data to show trends in behavioral health employment during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Increases in unemployment in health care, especially during a pandemic, has implications for the quality of care delivery, HCW satisfaction, and patient outcomes.
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Finding 2: Being in a lower-income HCW profession (therapists, technicians, and aides) was associated with greater increases in reported unemployment from compared with physicians.
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Finding 1: Working in health care generally and hospital-based health care specifically was associated with less increase in reported unemployment rates compared with other fields and nonhospital health care work.
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TL;DR: We found that while working in health care and in hospitals was protective against unemployment during the pandemic, some lower income HCWs, who are critical for care delivery still faced increased unemployment.
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@lhnicholas and I were interested in examining (un)employment among HCW during the pandemic, given that we had been seeing news reports of COVID-19 induced job changes across industries and within health care specifically.
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My article with @lhnicholas "Changes in Unemployment Among Health Care Workers Following the COVID-19 Pandemic" in @JAMA_current is out today!.
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This study examines changes in unemployment among US health care workers from January 2015 to April 2022, before and after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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RT @drschut: New paper w/ @CourtneyBoen out in @PennPSC @PennPARC working paper series (& forthcoming in @ReadDemography): . .
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RT @PennLDI: Sasmira Matta (@SasmiraM)’s poster presentation is on changes in health care workers’ incomes since the Affordable Care Act. C….
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Research Objective: Health care is one of the fastest growing sectors of the lo...
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RT @PennLDI: Sasmira Matta (@SasmiraM) presents the poster: “Are Organizations’ Use of Patient Narratives Associated with Better Reported P….
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Research Objective: How to improve patient care experiences has challenged heal...
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