Publications

Selected publications by Benjamin J. McMichael.

My publications span legal scholarship, economics and empirical legal studies, and medical and health-policy research. The selected publications below are organized by disciplinary venue; titles link to verified journal, publisher, repository, or SSRN records where available.

Law Reviews

A Constitutional Accounting of the False Claims Act

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

Forthcoming Vanderbilt Law Review (2026).

The Future of Frozen Embryos

Clare Ryan and Benjamin J. McMichael

SMU Law Review, 78(3): 789–826 (2025).

A Constitutional False Claims Act

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

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

Inequitable Organ Allocation

Benjamin J. McMichael

UC Davis Law Review, 58(1): 1–110 (2024).

Reproductive Objectification

Meghan M. Boone and Benjamin J. McMichael

Minnesota Law Review, 108(5): 2493–2560 (2024).

Bringing Predictability to the Chaos of Punitive Damages

Benjamin J. McMichael and W. Kip Viscusi

Arizona State Law Journal, 54(2): 471–525 (2022).

Stealing Organs?

Benjamin J. McMichael

Indiana Law Journal, 97(1): 135–201 (2022).

Socially Distant Healthcare

Benjamin J. McMichael, with Allyson Gold and Alicia Gilbert

Tulane Law Review, 96: 423–468 (2022).

The Access-to-Care Epidemic

Benjamin J. McMichael

Wake Forest Law Review, 56(3) (2021).

State-Created Fetal Harm

Meghan Boone and Benjamin J. McMichael

Georgetown Law Journal, 109(3): 475–522 (2021).

Insuring Apologies

Benjamin J. McMichael

Florida State University Law Review, 48(3): 651–718 (2021).

Contaminated Relationships in the Opioid Crisis

Elissa Philip Gentry and Benjamin J. McMichael

Hastings Law Journal, 72(3): 827–870 (2021).

Occupational Licensing and the Opioid Crisis

Benjamin J. McMichael

UC Davis Law Review, 54(2): 887–966 (2020).

Healthcare Licensing and Liability

Benjamin J. McMichael

Indiana Law Journal, 95(3): 821–881 (2020).

“Sorry” Is Never Enough: How State Apology Laws Fail to Reduce Medical Malpractice Liability Risk

Benjamin J. McMichael, R. Lawrence Van Horn, and W. Kip Viscusi

Stanford Law Review, 71(2): 341–409 (2019).

Taming Blockbuster Punitive Damages Awards

Benjamin J. McMichael and W. Kip Viscusi

University of Illinois Law Review, 2019(1): 171–221 (2019).

The Failure of “Sorry”: An Empirical Evaluation of Apology Laws, Health Care, and Medical Malpractice

Benjamin J. McMichael

Lewis & Clark Law Review, 22(4): 1199–1281 (2018).

Peer-Reviewed Medical & Health Policy

The Relationship Between Ambulatory Sensitive Conditions and Nurse Practitioner Scope-of-Practice Laws

Benjamin J. McMichael

Journal of Nursing Regulation, 17(2) (2026).

Nurse Practitioner Scope-of-Practice Laws and Preventable Pediatric Hospitalizations

Benjamin J. McMichael

Medical Care Research and Review, 83(4): 239–250 (2026).

Impact of Fentanyl Test Strips as Harm Reduction for Drug-Related Mortality

Moiz Bhai, Benjamin J. McMichael, and David T. Mitchell

Medical Care Research and Review, 82(3): 240–251 (2025).

Maximizing the Potential Value of the Nursing Workforce

Sharon Pappas, William Brosius, Rose Hayes, Matthew Lawrence, Benjamin J. McMichael, Deborah Zimmermann, and Linda McCauley

Nursing Outlook, 72(1): 102016 (2024).

Toward a Uniform Classification of Nurse Practitioner Scope of Practice Laws

Benjamin J. McMichael and Sara Markowitz

Medical Care Research and Review, 80(4): 444–454 (2023).

Antidepressants Are the Most Commonly Discontinued Psychotherapeutic Medications in Pregnancy

Hayley D. Germack, Joan Combellick, Mandy Cooper, Krista Koller, and Benjamin J. McMichael

Women’s Health Issues, 32(3): 241–250 (2022).

Nurse Practitioner Scope-of-Practice Laws and Opioid Prescribing

Benjamin J. McMichael

Milbank Quarterly, 99(3): 721–745 (2021).

Association of State Legislation and Industry Compensation to Orthopaedic Residents: A 3-Year Review of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Open Payments Database

Bradley W. Wills, Adam M. Almaguer, Joseph X. Robin, Adam Archie, Benjamin J. McMichael, Gerald McGwin Jr., S. Elizabeth Ames, and Brent A. Ponce

Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, 28(22): e1020–e1028 (2020).

Open Payments Reporting of Industry Compensation for Orthopedic Residents

Adam M. Almaguer, Bradley W. Wills, Joseph X. Robin, Yvonne Chodaba, Alexandra M. Arguello, Benjamin J. McMichael, Gerald McGwin Jr., and Brent A. Ponce

Journal of Surgical Education, 77(6): 1632–1637 (2020).

The Association of Nurse Practitioner Scope-of-Practice Laws with Emergency Department Use: Evidence from Medicaid Expansion

Benjamin J. McMichael, Joanne Spetz, and Peter I. Buerhaus

Medical Care, 57(5): 362–368 (2019).

Public Attitudes toward Contemporary Issues in Liver Allocation

Heather W. O’Dell, Benjamin J. McMichael, Suzie Lee, Jay L. Karp, R. Lawrence Van Horn, and Seth J. Karp

American Journal of Transplantation, 19(4): 1212–1217 (2019).

The Extraregulatory Effect of Nurse Practitioner Scope-of-Practice Laws on Physician Malpractice Rates

Benjamin J. McMichael, Barbara J. Safriet, and Peter I. Buerhaus

Medical Care Research and Review, 75(3): 312–326 (2018).

Book Chapters

Negligence, Intentional Torts, Professional Liability, and Medical Malpractice

Benjamin J. McMichael

Laws of Medicine: 129–149 (2022).

The Economic Context of Nursing Practice in the United States

Benjamin J. McMichael and Joanne Spetz

Financial and Business Management for the Doctor of Nursing Practice (2022).

Short Academic Works

Nurse Practitioner Entrepreneurs—An Untapped Primary Care Lifeline

Monica O’Reilly-Jacob, Betty Rambur, Benjamin J. McMichael, and Jennifer Perloff

JAMA Health Forum, 7(1): e256200 (2026).

Developing Safe Harbors to Address Malpractice Liability and Wasteful Health Care Spending

James F. Blumstein, Benjamin J. McMichael, and Alan B. Storrow

JAMA Health Forum, 4(11): e233899 (2023).

Constraints on Medical Liability Through Malpractice Safe Harbors

James F. Blumstein, Benjamin J. McMichael, and Alan B. Storrow

JAMA Health Forum, 1(8): e200961 (2020).

COVID-19 and State Medical Liability Immunity

Benjamin J. McMichael, John R. Lowry, William H. Frist, and R. Lawrence Van Horn

Health Affairs Forefront (2020).

Are PAs and NPs Interchangeable?

Roderick S. Hooker and Benjamin J. McMichael

Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants, 32(9): 16–17 (2019).

The Integrity of MACRA May Be Undermined By “Incident To Billing” Coding

Peter Buerhaus, Jonathan Skinner, Benjamin J. McMichael, David Auerbach, Jennifer Perloff, Douglas Staiger, and Lucy Skinner

Health Affairs Forefront (2018).

Worried About Malpractice?

Benjamin F. Byrd III, Jim Cooper, and Benjamin J. McMichael

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography, 29(12): 1161–1162 (2016).