Jun Li

• 2025 Fall
  • PAI 721 Introduction to Statistics
  • PAI 783 The Changing American Health Care System
• 2025 Spring
  • PAI 736 Health Economics & Policy
  • PAI 721 Introduction to Statistics
• 2024 Fall
  • PAI 721 Introduction to Statistics
  • PAI 783 The Changing American Health Care System
• 2023 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. 

"Caregiver Suicide and Homicide-Suicide: Investigating the Role of Policy and Place-Contexts on Mortality", Sponsored by National Institute on Aging.

"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.

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

"Center for Aging and Policy Studies", Sponsored by National Institutes of Health.

• Journal Articles
  • Hoffman, G. J., Ha, J., Fan, Z. and Li, J., "Associations Between Rural Hospital Closures and Acute and Post-Acute Care Access and Outcomes." Health Services Research, 2025.
  • Li, J., Loomer, L., "Bundled Payment Impacts Uptake of Prescribed Home Health Care." The American Journal of Managed Care , 2025.
  • Li, J., Monti, Y. and Ryan, A., "Hospitals Did Not Increase Acute Occupational Therapy Provision Despite Positive Associations with Hospital Performance Under Medicare’s Comprehensive Joint Replacement Program." American Journal of Occupational Therapy , 2025.
  • Hoffman, G., Ha, J. and Li, J., "Association of Medicare Home Health Ratings With Older Adult Fall Injuries: An Instrumental Variables Analysis." Journal of the American Medical Directors Association , 2024.
  • Li, J., "Public Reporting and Consumer Demand in the Home Health Sector." Medical Care Research and Review, 2024.
  • 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, 2024.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Norton, E. C., Lawton, E. and Li, J., "Moneyball in Medicare: Heterogeneous Treatment Effects." American Journal of Health Economics , 2023.
  • 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.
  • 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., 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.
  • 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., 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.
  • 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.
• 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.
• White Papers
  • Zhang, Y., Li, J., Zhu, D. and Heflin, C., "Adopting the Standard Medical Deduction Increased State SNAP Enrollment and Benefits." Lerner Center/CAPS Population Health Research Brief Series, 2024.
  • Li, J., Chahal, M., "Financial Rewards Tied to Quality Measures Lead Home Health Agencies to Exaggerate Their Improvements." Lerner Center/CAPS Population Health Research Brief Series, 2023.
  • Li, J., Qi, M. and Werner, R., "Many Older Americans Do No Receive the Recommended Home Health Care After Hospitalization." Lerner Center/CAPS Population Health Research Brief Series, 2020.

Annual Conference of the American Society of Health Economists , American Society of Health Economists, "Wage Pass-Through Policies, Direct Care Worker Compensation, and Labor Supply in the Home Health Care Sector" (June 24, 2025)

Annual Conference of the American Society of Health Economists , American Society of Health Economists, "Associations Between Rural Hospital Closures and Acute and Post-Acute Care Access and Outcomes" (June 23, 2025)

Gateway Long-Term Care Seminar Series, The Gateway to Global Aging Data and Center to Accelerate Population Research in Alzheimer's, "Wage Pass-Through Policies, Direct Care Worker Compensation, and Labor Supply in the Home Health Care Sector" (May 15, 2025)

APPAM 2024 Fall Research Conference, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, "Wage Pass-Through Policies, Direct Care Worker Compensation, and Labor Supply in the Home Health Care Sector" (November 22, 2024)

CAPRA-NBER Scientific Meeting: Financial & Economic Decision-making, Alzheimer’s Disease, and Outcomes Over the Lifecycle, Center to Accelerate Population Research in Alzheimer's/National Bureau of Economic Research, "Skilled Home Health Care Specialization and Implications for People Living with Dementia" (October 17, 2024)

International Conference on Evidence-based Policy in Long-term Care, "Skilled Home Health Care Specialization and Implications for People Living with Dementia" (September 13, 2024)

AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, "'Learning by Doing' in Home Health Care and Implications for Dementia Populations" (June 29, 2024)

Annual Conference of the American Society of Health Economists , American Society of Health Economists , "'Learning by Doing' in Home Health Care and Implications for Dementia Populations" (June 17, 2024)

Epidemiology Seminar Series, Department of Medicine and Epidemiology, University of California-Davis, "Medicare Policies and Implications for Health System Functioning and Patient Welfare" (April 22, 2024)

ASSA 2024 Annual Meeting, American Economic Association, "'Learning by Doing' in Home Health Care and Implications for Dementia Populations" (January 5, 2024)

APPAM 2023 Fall Research Conference, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management , "Racial-Ethnic Differences in Home Health Care Uptake: The Role of Financial Incentives in Hospitals" (November 9, 2023)

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" (October 16, 2023)

IHEA 2023 Congress, International Health Economics Association, "Public Reporting of Quality Ratings and Consumer Demand in the Home Health Care Sector" (July 10, 2023)

Annual Conference of the American Society of Health Economists , American Society of Health Economists , "Does Bundled Payment Reduce Disparities in Home Health Care Receipt Among Medicare Patients?" (June 14, 2023)

ASSA 2023 Annual Meeting, American Economic Association, "Effects of Star Ratings in Home Health on Medicare Beneficiaries’ Use of Care" (January 8, 2023)

APPAM 2022 Fall Research Conference, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, "Increasing Access to SNAP for Older Adults through the Standard Medical Deduction" (November 18, 2022)

6th International Conference on Evidence-based Policy in Long-term Care, International Long-Term Care Policy Network, "Public Reporting and Consumer Demand in the Home Health Sector" (September 10, 2022)

Annual Conference of the American Society of Health Economists , American Society of Health Economists, "Unmet Functional Needs and Care Support in the Last Decade" (June 27, 2022)

Economics Department Seminar Series, University of New Hampshire, Economics Department, University of New Hampshire, "Home Health Star Ratings and Consumer Demand" (April 1, 2022)

APPAM 2021 Fall Research Conference, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, "Medicare's Home Health Star Ratings Program Has Not Shifted Patients into Higher-Rated Agencies" (March 27, 2022)

Quality Measures Technical Forum (February Meeting), Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, "Disparities in Home Health Visits" (January 6, 2022)

Annual Conference of the American Society of Health Economists, American Society of Health Economists, "Medicare's Home Health Star Ratings Program Has Not Shifted Patients into Higher-Rated Agencies" (June 21, 2021)

APPAM 2020 Fall Research Conference, 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?" (November 11, 2020)

Department of Economics Seminar Series, University of Kansas, Department of Economics, University of Kansas, "Value-based payments in health care: Evidence from a nationwide randomized experiment in the home health sector" (October 21, 2020)

Early Investigator Outstanding Paper Award, Health Economics Interest Group of AcademyHealth (June 29, 2024 - June 29, 2024)

Center for Disability Resources Annual Faculty and Staff Recognition Award, Center for Disability Resources (April 30, 2024 - April 30, 2024)

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)