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Arnold Y. Chen
Senior Clinician Researcher
Arnold Chen is a senior clinician researcher at Mathematica whose research has focused on studying the effects of health policies and programs on the quality of care.
He currently directs Mathematica’s contract with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) for the National Resource Center for Health Information Technology, and leads the impact analyses for the evaluation of the 9th Scope of Work Quality Improvement Organization Program. He also led the quality-of-care analyses for several previous studies—Coordinated Care, Disease Management, Informatics for Diabetes Education and Telemedicine, Payment Reform for Part B-Covered Outpatient Drugs and Biologicals, and Home Health Prospective Payment.
Chen’s publications have appeared in JAMA and Diabetes Care, and he has presented at AcademyHealth and the American Public Health Association. He also serves as clinical assistant professor of medicine at University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey–Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and practices general internal medicine at a community health center. He has an M.D. from Albert Einstein College of Medicine and an M.Sc. in health policy and management from Harvard School of Public Health. He completed an internal medicine residency at the University of Colorado and a general medicine fellowship at West Roxbury Veterans Affairs Hospital and Harvard Medical School and is board certified in internal medicine.
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- Areas of Expertise
- Key Projects
- Professional Activities
- Publications
- Health policies and programs
- Quality of care
- National Resource Center for Health Information Technology
- Program Evaluation of the Eighth and Ninth Scope of Work Quality Improvement Program
- Impact of Payment Reform for Part B-Covered Outpatient Drugs and Biologicals
- Volunteer attending physician, resident clinic, Eric B. Chandler Health Center, New Brunswick, NJ
- Clinical assistant professor of medicine, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
- "Could There Be a Role for Home Telemedicine in the U.S. Medicare Program?" In Advances in Telemedicine: Technologies, Enabling Factors and Scenarios, edited by Georgi Graschew (March 2011)
- "Using Comparative Effectiveness Research: Information Alone Won't Lead to Successful Health Care Reform." Topics in Health Care Effectiveness, Issue Brief #2 (December 2010)
- "Costs to Medicare of the IDEATel Home Telemedicine Demonstration: Findings from an Independent Evaluation." Diabetes Care (July 2009)