Christopher Whaley

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
140 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Christopher Whaley is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher Whaley has authored 140 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 101 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 78 papers in General Health Professions and 18 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Christopher Whaley's work include Healthcare Policy and Management (91 papers), Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (33 papers) and Global Health Care Issues (29 papers). Christopher Whaley is often cited by papers focused on Healthcare Policy and Management (91 papers), Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (33 papers) and Global Health Care Issues (29 papers). Christopher Whaley collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and Czechia. Christopher Whaley's co-authors include Jonathan Cantor, Timothy A. Brown, Dena M Bravata, Megan F. Pera, James C. Robinson, Neeraj Sood, Michael R. Richards, Jennie C.C. Chang, Heather Hagg and Chapin White and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Christopher Whaley

115 papers receiving 1.9k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Changes in Health Services Use Among Commercially Insured US Populations During the COVID-19 Pandemic

2020 278 citations Christopher Whaley, Megan F. Pera et al. JAMA Network Open profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christopher Whaley United States	24	955	934	431	375	129	140	2.0k
Sara R. Collins United States	21	1.3k 1.4×	1.3k 1.4×	186 0.4×	206 0.5×	159 1.2×	134	2.3k
Lisa Rosenbaum United States	24	717 0.8×	410 0.4×	433 1.0×	572 1.5×	273 2.1×	70	2.8k
Deborah A. Taira United States	23	1.6k 1.6×	716 0.8×	386 0.9×	152 0.4×	147 1.1×	80	2.8k
Hoangmai H. Pham United States	23	1.7k 1.7×	1.3k 1.4×	368 0.9×	239 0.6×	89 0.7×	41	2.9k
Laura A. Hatfield United States	26	954 1.0×	998 1.1×	349 0.8×	128 0.3×	91 0.7×	78	2.3k
Laura‐Mae Baldwin United States	27	1.0k 1.0×	681 0.7×	508 1.2×	687 1.8×	85 0.7×	103	2.8k
Maria Mathews Canada	21	701 0.7×	330 0.4×	376 0.9×	305 0.8×	89 0.7×	130	1.8k
Tim Evans Switzerland	19	1.0k 1.1×	595 0.6×	444 1.0×	100 0.3×	56 0.4×	30	2.4k
Sandra L. Decker United States	30	1.6k 1.6×	1.4k 1.5×	272 0.6×	96 0.3×	109 0.8×	75	2.5k
Bianca K. Frogner United States	20	833 0.9×	445 0.5×	289 0.7×	74 0.2×	110 0.9×	89	1.5k

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Ryan, Andrew M., et al.. (2025). Trends in Plan Offerings, Enrollment, and Premiums in Medicare Advantage and Medigap. Health Services Research. 60(3). e14456–e14456.

Whaley, Christopher, et al.. (2024). Financial Performance Gaps Between Critical Access Hospitals and Other Acute Care Hospitals. PubMed Central. 5(12). e243959–e243959. 1 indexed citations

Khazanchi, Rohan, Benjamin Rader, Jonathan Cantor, et al.. (2024). Spatial Accessibility and Uptake of Pediatric COVID-19 Vaccinations by Social Vulnerability. PEDIATRICS. 154(2). 2 indexed citations

Whaley, Christopher, et al.. (2024). Nursing Home Certificate of Need Moratoria During the COVID-19 Pandemic Had Little Impact on Access. INQUIRY The Journal of Health Care Organization Provision and Financing. 61. 2876871172–2876871172.

Whaley, Christopher & Xiaoxi Zhao. (2024). The effects of physician vertical integration on referral patterns, patient welfare, and market dynamics. Journal of Public Economics. 238. 105175–105175. 5 indexed citations

Altman, Myra, et al.. (2024). Medical Spending Among US Households With Children With a Mental Health Condition Between 2017 and 2021. JAMA Network Open. 7(3). e241860–e241860. 3 indexed citations

Arnold, Daniel R. & Christopher Whaley. (2024). <div> Who Pays for Health Care Costs? The Effects of Health <span>Care Prices on Wages</span></div>. SSRN Electronic Journal.

McBain, Ryan K., Jonathan Cantor, Megan F. Pera, et al.. (2023). Mental Health Service Utilization Rates Among Commercially Insured Adults in the US During the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic. JAMA Health Forum. 4(1). e224936–e224936. 24 indexed citations

Whaley, Christopher, et al.. (2023). Barriers primary care clinic leaders face to improving value in a consumer choice health plan design. Health Affairs Scholar. 1(6). qxad065–qxad065.

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Cantor, Jonathan, et al.. (2023). The impact of COVID‐19 shelter‐in‐place policy responses on excess mortality. Health Economics. 32(11). 2499–2515. 2 indexed citations

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Levinson, Zachary, Jonathan Cantor, Malcolm Williams, & Christopher Whaley. (2022). The association of strained ICU capacity with hospital patient racial and ethnic composition and federal relief during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Health Services Research. 57(S2). 279–290. 5 indexed citations

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Cantor, Jonathan, Neeraj Sood, Dena M Bravata, Megan F. Pera, & Christopher Whaley. (2022). The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and policy response on health care utilization: Evidence from county-level medical claims and cellphone data. Journal of Health Economics. 82. 102581–102581. 56 indexed citations

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Whaley, Christopher, Neeraj Sood, Michael E. Chernew, Leanne Metcalfe, & Ateev Mehrotra. (2021). Paying patients to use lower‐priced providers. Health Services Research. 57(1). 37–46. 4 indexed citations

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Bravata, Dena M, Jonathan Cantor, Neeraj Sood, & Christopher Whaley. (2021). Back to School: The Effect of School Visits During COVID-19 on COVID-19 Transmission. National Bureau of Economic Research. 2 indexed citations

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Bravata, Dena M, Jonathan Cantor, Neeraj Sood, & Christopher Whaley. (2021). Back to School: The Effect of School Visits during COVID-19 on COVID-19 Transmission. Working Paper 28645.. National Bureau of Economic Research. 1 indexed citations

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Richards, Michael R., et al.. (2021). Treatment consolidation after vertical integration: Evidence from outpatient procedure markets. Journal of Health Economics. 81. 102569–102569. 29 indexed citations

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Muench, Ulrike, Christopher Whaley, Janet M. Coffman, & Joanne Spetz. (2020). Scope-of-Practice for Nurse Practitioners and Adherence to Medications for Chronic Illness in Primary Care. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 36(2). 478–486. 16 indexed citations

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Whaley, Christopher. (2019). Provider responses to online price transparency. Journal of Health Economics. 66. 241–259. 20 indexed citations

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Brown, Timothy A., et al.. (2019). Reference pricing: The case of screening colonoscopies. Journal of Health Economics. 65. 246–259. 16 indexed citations

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Robinson, James C., Christopher Whaley, & Timothy A. Brown. (2016). Reference Pricing, Consumer Cost-Sharing, and Insurer Spending for Advanced Imaging Tests. Medical Care. 54(12). 1050–1055. 18 indexed citations

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