Paul Eliason

Paul Eliason is an Associate Professor at the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research draws on tools from empirical industrial organization and public economics to examine provider incentives, market structure, firm ownership, and fraud in health care markets. His work has been published in leading academic journals including the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and the Journal of Political Economy. He received his PhD in Economics from Duke University in May 2018.

How Competition Has Increased Fraud in Medicare’s DME Program

In new research, Renuka Diwan, Paul Eliason, Riley League, Ryan C. McDevitt, James W. Roberts, and Jetson Leder-Luis investigate how Medicare’s shift to a competitive bidding system to reduce prices has inadvertently shifted market share to fraudulent suppliers.

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