Susan H Busch PhD

Associate Professor of Public Health (Health Policy); Chair, Health Policy and Management

Health insurance; mental health care; Affordable Care Act implementation

Effects of the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) on behavioral health care use and spending.
Demand for the chronic care model in behavioral health
Involuntary use of out-of-network health care
Financial incentives to quit smoking in Connecticut Medicaid
Transitions clinic network: linking high-risk Medicaid patients from prison to community
Implications of the Affordable Care Act for individuals with behavioral health disorders
FDA safety warnings and antidepressant use among youths
Brief interventions for alcohol and other drug problems in the Emergency Department

Kyanko KA, L Curry, SH Busch (2012). Out-of-Network Physicians: How Prevalent is Involuntary Use and Cost Transparency? Health Services Research. In press.
Busch SH, E Golberstein, E Meara. The FDA and ABCs: The Unintended Consequences of Antidepressant Warnings on Human Capital. NBER Working Paper No 17426. September 2011
Busch, SH (2012). Implications of the Mental Health Parity and Addictions Equity Act. American Journal of Psychiatry 169(1):1-3.
Barry CL, JP Weiner, K Lemke K, SH Busch (2012). Risk Adjustment in Health Insurance Exchanges for Individuals with Mental Illness. American Journal of Psychiatry 169(7): 704-709.
Howard, DH, SH Busch, KE Thorpe (2010). Understanding Recent Increases in Chronic Disease Treatment Rates: More Diseases or More Detection? Health Economics, Policy and Law, 5(4):411-35.
Busch SH, RG Frank, A Martin, CL Barry (2011). Characterizing declines in pediatric antidepressant use after new risk disclosures. Medical Care Research and Review, 68(1):96-111.