Assistant Professor of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Internal Medicine
Dr. Benjamin D. Sommers, MD
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Benjamin Sommers works in the field of Internal Medicine. He attended Harvard Medical School. Harvard Medical School is one of the top medical schools in the US. Harvard Medical School has a rank of 1 in research and a 12 in primary care Benjamin Sommers is a published doctor as well. He has 36 publications published. The latest was: Adequacy of Outpatient Specialty Care Access in Marketplace Plans Under the Affordable Care Act. He accepts Medicare.
Publications
- The ACA's 65th Birthday Challenge: Moving from Medicaid to Medicare.
- Adequacy of Outpatient Specialty Care Access in Marketplace Plans Under the Affordable Care Act.
- Changes in Self-reported Insurance Coverage, Access to Care, and Health Under the Affordable Care Act.
- Effect of Dependent Coverage Expansion of the Affordable Care Act on Health and Access to Care for Young Adults.
- Universal health coverage for US veterans: a goal within reach.
- Low-Income Residents In Three States View Medicaid As Equal To Or Better Than Private Coverage, Support Expansion.
- Health reform and changes in health insurance coverage in 2014.
- Changes in health and medical spending among young adults under health reform.
- Medicaid And Marketplace Eligibility Changes Will Occur Often In All States; Policy Options Can Ease Impact.
- Prevalence and predictors of underinsurance among low-income adults.
- Using Medicaid to buy private health insurance--the great new experiment?
- The poverty-reducing effect of Medicaid.
- The Affordable Care Act has led to significant gains in health insurance and access to care for young adults.
- Policy makers should prepare for major uncertainties in medicaid enrollment, costs, and needs for physicians under health reform.
- Why states are so miffed about Medicaid--economics, politics, and the "woodwork effect".
- A death in primary care.
- Issues in health reform: how changes in eligibility may move millions back and forth between medicaid and insurance exchanges.
- Children's Health Insurance and Access to Care During and After the CHIP Expansion Period.
- Routine screening for silent pulmonary embolism is harmful and unnecessary.
- Medicaid expansion--the soft underbelly of health care reform?
- Why lowering health costs should be a key adjunct to slowing health spending growth.
- Enrolling eligible children in medicaid and CHIP: a research update.
- Loss of health insurance among non-elderly adults in Medicaid.
- Probabilities and preferences: what economics can teach doctors and patients making difficult treatment decisions.
- Predictors of patient preferences and treatment choices for localized prostate cancer.
- Obesity and presenteeism: the impact of body mass index on workplace productivity.
- Decision analysis using individual patient preferences to determine optimal treatment for localized prostate cancer.
- Why millions of children eligible for Medicaid and SCHIP are uninsured: poor retention versus poor take-up.
- Talking to patients about risk.
- Protecting low-income children's access to care: are physician visits associated with reduced patient dropout from Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program?
- The impact of gender and marital status on end-of-life care: evidence from the National Mortality Follow-Back Survey.
- The impact of program structure on children's disenrollment from Medicaid and SCHIP.
- Who really pays for health insurance? The incidence of employer-provided health insurance with sticky nominal wages.
- From Medicaid to uninsured: drop-out among children in public insurance programs.
- Consumerism in health care: challenges and opportunities.
Schools
Harvard Medical School
Brigham and Women39s Hospital
Doctors Specialties
- Internal Medicine
Accepted Insurances
- Choice Plus POS II
- Blue Card PPO
- BlueConnect HMO
- Blue with Managed Care Behavioral Health HMO
- Preferred Blue PPO
- Cigna HMO
- Cigna PPO
- Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
- Open Access Plus
- Commercial Insurance Company
- First Health (Coventry Health Care) PPO
- Choice Care PPO
- Medicaid
- Medicare MCR
- MultiPlan PPO
- PHCS Network PPO
- Tufts PPO
- Choice Plus POS
- Navigate POS
- Options PPO
- United Healthcare
Education
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Brigham and Women's Hospital -
Harvard Medical School
Hospital
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Brigham and Women's Hospital
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1275733818 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | SOMMERS | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | BENJAMIN | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 021302655 | |
| NPPES Provider State | MA | |
| Specialty Description | Internal Medicine | |
| Total Claim Count | 534.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 1.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 11.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 2.06 |
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Medicare Facts
| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1275733818 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | SOMMERS |
| First Name Of The Provider | BENJAMIN |
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