Professor, Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine

Internal Medicine

Kevin G. Volpp is an expert in the field of Internal Medicine. He graduated from Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He received awards:"Elected Member". Kevin G. Volpp, MD is a published doctor and has 81 publications published. The lastest was: 'Two Randomized Controlled Pilot Trials of Social Forces to Improve Statin Adherence among Patients with Diabetes.'

Publications

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• Two Randomized Controlled Pilot Trials of Social Forces to Improve Statin Adherence among Patients with Diabetes.
• A Pilot Randomized Trial of Financial Incentives or Coaching to Lower Serum Phosphorus in Dialysis Patients.
• Effect of Financial Incentives to Physicians, Patients, or Both on Lipid Levels: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
• Nudging Students Toward Healthier Food Choices-Applying Insights From Behavioral Economics.
• Wearable devices as facilitators, not drivers, of health behavior change.
• Accuracy of smartphone applications and wearable devices for tracking physical activity data.
• Association of the 2011 ACGME resident duty hour reforms with mortality and readmissions among hospitalized Medicare patients.
• A mixed-methods randomized controlled trial of financial incentives and peer networks to promote walking among older adults.
• Commitment devices to improve unhealthy behaviors--reply.
• Using Reporting Requirements to Improve Employer Wellness Incentives and Their Regulation.
• Commitment Devices: Using Initiatives to Change Behavior.
• The CAATCH Study and Ways to Enhance the Next Wave of Behavioral Interventions.
• A randomized trial of a three-hour protected nap period in a medicine training program: sleep, alertness, and patient outcomes.
• Reward-Based Incentives for Smoking Cessation: How a Carrot Became a Stick.
• Financial Incentives for Home-Based Health Monitoring: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
• Translating the Hemoglobin A1C with More Easily Understood Feedback: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
• Association between participation in a multipayer medical home intervention and changes in quality, utilization, and costs of care.
• The importance of clinical severity in the measurement of hospital readmission rates for medicare beneficiaries, 1997-2007.
• Smoking, obesity, health insurance, and health incentives in the Affordable Care Act.
• Consumers' misunderstanding of health insurance.
• Individual- versus group-based financial incentives for weight loss: a randomized, controlled trial.
• Teaching Hospital Five-Year Mortality Trends in the Wake of Duty Hour Reforms.
• Conflicts and compromises in not hiring smokers.
• Are the Healthy Behaviors of US High-Deductible Health Plan Enrollees Driven by People Who Chose These Plans? Smoking as a Case Study.
• Turning Readmission Reduction Policies into Results: Some Lessons from a Multistate Initiative to Reduce Readmissions.
• Does Admission to a Teaching Hospital Affect Acute Myocardial Infarction Survival?
• The Impact of Profitability of Hospital Admissions on Mortality.
• Leveraging insights from behavioral economics to increase the value of health-care service provision.
• Choosing wisely: low-value services, utilization, and patient cost sharing.
• The impact of price discounts and calorie messaging on beverage consumption: A multi-site field study.
• What business are we in? The emergence of health as the business of health care.
• On the Way to Health.
• Teaching Hospital Financial Status and Patient Outcomes Following ACGME Duty Hour Reform.
• Randomized trial of lottery-based incentives to improve warfarin adherence.
• A longitudinal analysis of the impact of hospital service line profitability on the likelihood of readmission.
• Internal Medicine Trainees' Views of Training Adequacy and Duty Hours Restrictions in 2009.
• Automated Hovering in Health Care - Watching Over the 5000 Hours.
• Application of the RE-AIM Framework to Evaluate the Impact of a Worksite-Based Financial Incentive Intervention for Smoking Cessation.
• The impact of alternative incentive schemes on completion of health risk assessments.
• Heart attack risk perception biases among hypertension patients: The role of educational level and worry.
• The Law, Policy, and Ethics of Employers' Use of Financial Incentives to Improve Health.
• Redesigning employee health incentives--lessons from behavioral economics.
• Financial incentives for extended weight loss: a randomized, controlled trial.
• Lottery-Based versus Fixed Incentives to Increase Clinicians' Response to Surveys.
• The impact of resident duty hour reform on hospital readmission rates among Medicare beneficiaries.
• Residency training at a crossroads: duty-hour standards 2010.
• The Hospital Compare mortality model and the volume-outcome relationship.
• Match rates into higher-income, controllable lifestyle specialties for students from highly ranked, research-based medical schools compared with other applicants.
• To leave or to lie? Are concerns about a shift-work mentality and eroding professionalism as a result of duty-hour rules justified?
• Enhancing the effectiveness of food labeling in restaurants.
• Prolonged hospital stay and the resident duty hour rules of 2003.
• Did duty hour reform lead to better outcomes among the highest risk patients?
• Effect of work-hours regulations on intensive care unit mortality in United States teaching hospitals.
• Patients as mercenaries?: the ethics of using financial incentives in the war on unhealthy behaviors.
• Comparative effectiveness--thinking beyond medication A versus medication B.
• Effects of resident duty hour reform on surgical and procedural patient safety indicators among hospitalized Veterans Health Administration and Medicare patients.
• A randomized, controlled trial of financial incentives for smoking cessation.
• Hospital teaching intensity, patient race, and surgical outcomes.
• Paying people to lose weight and stop smoking.
• Impact of a prescription copayment increase on lipid-lowering medication adherence in veterans.
• P4P4P: an agenda for research on pay-for-performance for patients.
• Financial incentive-based approaches for weight loss: a randomized trial.
• Patient opinions regarding 'pay for performance for patients'.
• Building physician work hour regulations from first principles and best evidence.
• Short- and long-term mortality after an acute illness for elderly whites and blacks.
• A delicate balance: physician work hours, patient safety, and organizational efficiency.
• Nurse staffing ratios: trends and policy implications for hospitalists and the safety net.
• Managed care and hospital cost containment.
• Designing a model health care system.
• Asymmetric paternalism to improve health behaviors.
• Failure-to-rescue: comparing definitions to measure quality of care.
• Mortality among hospitalized Medicare beneficiaries in the first 2 years following ACGME resident duty hour reform.
• Mortality among patients in VA hospitals in the first 2 years following ACGME resident duty hour reform.
• Is thirty-day hospital mortality really lower for black veterans compared with white veterans?
• Internal medicine and general surgery residents' attitudes about the ACGME duty hours regulations: a multicenter study.
• The effect of cuts in medicare reimbursement on hospital mortality.
• Did postoperative mortality increase after the implementation of the Medicare Balanced Budget Act?
• A randomized controlled trial of financial incentives for smoking cessation.
• Did recent changes in Medicare reimbursement hit teaching hospitals harder?
• Accounting for apparent "reverse" racial disparities in Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)-based medical care: influence of out-of-VA care.

Schools

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• Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania

• Brigham and Women39s Hospital

Doctors Specialties

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• Internal Medicine

Accepted Insurances

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Awards

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• Elected Member

Education

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• Brigham and Women's Hospital
• Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

Hospital

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• Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center

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