Christina Marsh Dalton
Associate Professor of Economics & Adjunct Appointment, Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine
Dalton’s research focuses on health economics, health care markets, public and private insurance, and the economics of public health policy.
Biography
Dalton’s work is at the intersection of health economics and market organization. Her research focuses on improving health care by analyzing how markets for health care goods and services work. What influences whether firms offer insurance to their workers? How do the number and type of providers affect care that patients receive? These are just… Read More »
Dalton’s work is at the intersection of health economics and market organization. Her research focuses on improving health care by analyzing how markets for health care goods and services work. What influences whether firms offer insurance to their workers? How do the number and type of providers affect care that patients receive? These are just a few areas where Dalton’s expertise can offer insights.
Dalton can also comment on hospitals and markets such as nonprofit providers, insurance, rural healthcare, nursing homes, and hospice care. She is an expert on the economic impact of the Affordable Care Act and the impact of uncertainty and policy changes both regionally and nationally.
Media Appearances
WFU expert: How Amazon, Berkshire, JP Morgan deal could shake up health care market
Triad Business Journal
January 31, 2018
Amazon.com Inc.’s plans to form an independent health care company with Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and JP Morgan Chase has the potential to be “quite disruptive” to the health care market, said Christina Dalton, an assistant professor of economics at Wake Forest University with an adjunct appointment with Public Health Sciences at Wake Forest School of Medicine. “There’s probably a large potential if they can innovate and do this job well,” she said. “There’s a lot of cost savings that would be on the table for them.”
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Areas of Expertise
- Economic Analysis
- Employer-based Health Plans
- Health Care Markets
- Health Economics
- Health Insurance / Affordable Care Act
- Health Plan Financing
- Medicare / Medicare Part D
Education
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities: Ph.D., Economics
Cornell University: B.A., Economics
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