Jere L. Beasley Professor of Law
Director of Interdisciplinary Legal Studies
University of Alabama School of Law

Benjamin J.
McMichael

Empirical research on health care regulation, professional licensing, medical markets, and health policy.

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Research

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Fewer preventable hospitalizations

Full practice authority for nurse practitioners

Complete three-panel Figure 3 showing changes in diabetes, chronic, acute, and overall preventable hospitalization outcomes under full practice authority for nurse practitioners. Each outcome retains its original point estimate and 90 and 95 percent confidence intervals.

All published outcomes are retained; the acute-composite estimate is not statistically significant.

The Impact of Nurse Practitioner Scope-of-Practice Laws on Preventable Hospitalizations, Figure 3, PDF p. 10.

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Selected Research

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A Constitutional False Claims Act

Benjamin J. McMichael, Mackenzi Barrett, and W. Kip Viscusi

Washington University Law Review, 102(3): 677–750 (2025).

Sharing Is Caring: Eliminating Geographic Boundaries in Organ Allocation

Benjamin J. McMichael

Forthcoming American Journal of Health Economics (2026).

The Impact of Nurse Practitioner Scope-of-Practice Laws on Preventable Hospitalizations

Benjamin J. McMichael

Journal of Health Economics, 103: 103044 (2025).