Research Program
Health Care Payments & Financial Accountability
Overview
I study health care payment and billing rules, industry financial relationships, and legal accountability for public spending. This work includes research on Open Payments and Medicare payment and billing policy, as well as broader False Claims Act scholarship.
Selected Scholarship
A Constitutional Accounting of the False Claims Act
Mackenzi Barrett, Benjamin J. McMichael, and W. Kip Viscusi
Forthcoming Vanderbilt Law Review (2026).
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).
A Constitutional False Claims Act
Benjamin J. McMichael, Mackenzi Barrett, and W. Kip Viscusi
Washington University Law Review, 102(3): 677–750 (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).
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).
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 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).
Data, Code & Interactive Research
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