Jun Li

• 2023 Fall
  • PAI 721 Introduction to Statistics
  • PAI 783 The Changing American Health Care System
• 2022 Fall
  • PAI 721 Introduction to Statistics
  • PAI 783 The Changing American Health Care System

Jun Li joined the public administration and international affairs department in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs as a tenure-track assistant professor in fall 2020. At Syracuse University, Li teaches classes in health policy and health economics including The Changing American Health Care System. 

Li’s research aims to improve the quality of care provided by the U.S. health care system. A large part of her research tries to understand the consequences of Medicare payment incentives. Recently, she investigated Medicare’s performance-based contracts with hospitals and home health care providers, and how these incentives affect their behavior. Li has also investigated the role of health care report cards on patients’ use of services.

Her research has been supported by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Additionally, she has received funding from the Rackham Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, the Walter J. McNerney Award, and the Collaborative Doctoral Scholars Program from the Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation at the University of Michigan.

Li earned a Ph.D. in health services organization and policy from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 2020, an M.S.P.H. in health policy from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2012, and a B.A. in studio arts from Carleton College in 2010. 

"Specialization in Post-Acute Dementia Care: Do High-Volume Home Health Agencies and Skilled Nursing Facilities Result in Better Patient Outcomes?", Sponsored by National Institute on Aging/NIH/DHHS.

"Center for Aging and Policy Studies - 2021 - 2022:_Subproject for Institution # 31149", Sponsored by National Institutes of Health (NIH)/DHHS.

"Acute Occupational Therapy Spending in the National Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement Program", Sponsored by The American Occupational Therapy Foundation.

"Center for Aging and Policy Studies", Sponsored by National Institutes of Health (NIH)/DHHS.

• Journal Articles
  • Li, J., Zuo, D. and Heflin, C., "Adoption Of Standard Medical Deduction Increased SNAP Enrollment And Benefits In 21 Participating States." Health Affairs, 2023.
  • Heflin, C., Li, J. and Zuo, D., "Changing Patterns of SNAP Take-Up and Participation and the Role of Out-Of-Pocket Medical Expenses among Older Adults." Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 2023.
  • Li, J., "Home Health Agencies with High Quality of Patient Care Star Ratings Reduced Short-term Hospitalization Rates and Increased Days Independently at Home." Medical Care, 2023.
  • Li, J., Jeffers, T., Ogunjesa, B. and Raj, M., "Hospital Discharge Planners Need More Information When Referring Patients to Home Health Care: Insights from the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic." Health Services Insights, 2023.
  • Norton, E. C., Lawton, E. and Li, J., "Moneyball in Medicare: Heterogeneous Treatment Effects." American Journal of Health Economics , 2023.
  • Li, J., Ha, J. and Hoffman, G., "Unaddressed Functional Difficulty and Care Support among White, Black, and Hispanic Older Adults in the Last Decade." Health Affairs Scholar, 2023.
  • Norton, E. C., Li, J., Das, A., Ryan, A. M. and Chen, L. M., "Medicare's Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program Values Quality over QALYs." Medical Decision Making, 2022.
  • Li, J., "Value-Based Payments in Health Care: Evidence from a Nationwide Randomized Experiment in the Home Health Sector." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2022.
  • Vu, J., Li, J., Likosky, D. S., Norton, E. C., Campbell, D. A. and Regenbogen, S. E., "Achieving the High-Value Colectomy: Preventing Complications or Improving Efficiency." Diseases of the Colon & Rectum, 2020.
  • Li, J., Qi, M. and Werner, R. M., "Assessment of Receipt of the First Home Health Care Visit After Hospital Discharge Among Older Adults." JAMA Network Open, 2020.
  • Brescia, A. A., Vu, J. V., He, C., Li, J., Harrington, S. D., Thompson, M. P., Norton, E. C., Regenbogen, S. E., Syrjamaki, J. D., Prager, R. L. and Likosky, D. S., "Determinants of Value in Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting." Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, 2020.
  • Li, J., Sukul, D., Nuliyalu, U. and Ryan, A. M., "Patient Coded Severity and Payment Penalties under the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program: A Machine Learning Approach." Medical Care, 2020.
  • Li, J., Das, A. and Chen, L. M., "Assessing the Quality of Public Reporting of US Physician Performance." JAMA Internal Medicine, 2019.
  • Li, J., Norton, E. C., "Pay-for-Performance and Long-Term Care." Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance, 2019.
  • Post, B., Ryan, A. M., Moloci, N. M., Li, J., Dupree, J. M. and Hollingston, J. M., "Physician Participation in Medicare Accountable Care Organizations and Spillovers in Commercial Spending." Medical Care, 2019.
• Book Chapter
  • Li, J., Asch, S., "Chapter 3 - Measurement and Data." In Evaluation for Health Policy and Health Care: A Contemporary Data-Driven Approach. Sheingold, S., Bir, A. (eds.) SAGE Publications, 2019.

ASSA American Economic Association, ""Learning by Doing" in Home Health Care and Implications for Dementia Populations" (2024)

State Society on Aging, "Bundled Payment Incentives Improves Uptake of Prescribed Post-Acute Home Health Care for White and Black Patients Undergoing Joint Replacement Surgery" (2023)

American Society of Health Economists Annual Conference, "Does Bundled Payment Reduce Disparities in Home Health Care Receipt Among Medicare Patients?" (2023)

ASSA American Economic Association, "Effects of Star Ratings in Home Health on Medicare Beneficiaries’ Use of Care" (2023)

International Health Economics Association, "Public Reporting of Quality Ratings and Consumer Demand in the Home Health Care Sector" (2023)

Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, "Racial-Ethnic Differences in Home Health Care Uptake: The Role of Financial Incentives in Hospitals" (2023)

Quality Measures Technical Forum (February Meeting), Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, "Disparities in Home Health Visits" (2022)

Economics Department, University of New Hampshire, "Home Health Star Ratings and Consumer Demand" (2022)

Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, "Increasing Access to SNAP for Older Adults through the Standard Medical Deduction" (2022)

Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, "Medicare's Home Health Star Ratings Program Has Not Shifted Patients into Higher-Rated Agencies" (2022)

International Conference on Evidence-based Policy in Long-term Care, "Public Reporting and Consumer Demand in the Home Health Sector" (2022)

American Society of Health Economists Annual Conference, "Unmet Functional Needs and Care Support in the Last Decade" (2022)

Center for Aging and Policy Studies Annual Conference, "Effects of Medicaid Expansion on Low-Income, Aging Adults' Use of Informal Care" (2021)

American Society of Health Economists Annual Conference, "Medicare's Home Health Star Ratings Program Has Not Shifted Patients into Higher-Rated Agencies" (2021)

Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, "Choosing Home Health Care on the Basis of Medicare Star Ratings: Is There Value in Picking the Best?" (2020)

American Society of Health Economists Annual Conference (Cancelled), "Effects of Medicare's Home Health Star Ratings on Patient Admissions, a Regression Discontinuity Approach" (2020)

Department of Economics, University of Kansas, "Value-based payments in health care: Evidence from a nationwide randomized experiment in the home health sector" (2020)

American Society of Health Economists Annual Conference, "Pay-for-performance in Health Care: Evidence from a Nationwide Randomized Experiment in the Home Health Sector" (2019)

AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, "The Quality of Public Reporting of US Physician Performance" (2019)

2021-2022 Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Teaching Recognition Award for Early Career Performance, Syracuse University (2022)

Honorable Mention, John Heinz Dissertation Award, National Academy of Social Insurance (2021)

Honorable Mention, PhD Dissertation Award, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (2021)

Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship, University of Michigan (2019 - 2020)