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...

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...

Motivated by the persistent lack of testing capacity in the COVID-19 pandemic, we study the question "who should be tested?" when capacity is limited, tests have errors, and patients differ in their prior probability of being infected. While health offcials initially prioritized testing patients...

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...

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...

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...

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...