Problem definition: In response to the increased use of telehealth to replace traditional office visits with a physician, several US states have recently adopted telehealth pay parity policies. Such policies state that payers must reimburse healthcare providers for telehealth services at the...

International investment law has in recent years become a topic of great practical and academic importance, as the thousands of international investment treaties have given rise to hundreds of investor-state arbitrations, and innumerable books and articles. But fundamental questions concerning...

In recent years, many urban areas have established healthcare coalitions composed of autonomous (and often competing) hospitals, with the goal of improving emergency preparedness and response. We study the role of such coalitions in the specific context of response to multiple-casualty incidents...

The Emergency Medical Services (EMS) system is designed to handle life-threatening emergencies, but a large and growing number of non-emergency patients are accessing hospital-based healthcare through EMS. A national survey estimated that 17% of ambulance trips to hospital Emergency Departments...

The relationship between public and private international law is a topic which has long been debated, and which remains highly controversial. Despite an increasing range of scholarship looking at connections between the two fields, some modern public and private international lawyers would doubt...

Telehealth pay-parity laws and regulations require payers to cover and reimburse certain healthcare services provided remotely to the same extent as if those services were delivered in a traditional office setting. COVID-19 has spurred additional proposed and enacted legislation aimed at...

Hospitalists are physicians that specialize in the care of hospital inpatients, a job that until recently belonged to primary care physicians. We develop an operational model of hospitalist-patient interaction with rounding and responding service modes, optimizing hospitalist case-mix and...

Major hospitals frequently lack adequate space to accommodate emergency patients. Managers can take actions to create surge capacity, an immediate additional supply of medical services to accommodate increased demand. We study operational strategies that improve surge capacity, and we identify...