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Christine Amy Yee, PhD

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Health Law, Policy & Management - Boston University School of Public Health

Biography

Christine Yee, PhD, is a Junior Health Economist for the Partnered Evidence-based Policy Resource Center (PEPReC) at the VA Boston Healthcare System and in the Department of Health Law, Policy and Management at Boston University. Her research interests include provider incentive structures, impacts of health care reform and other health related policies, access to care, and area variations in health care utilization. Her work has focused on access to mental health care and primary care in the VHA, physician ownership of medical facilities and vertical integration, geographic variation in back surgery and knee surgery, and impacts of payment differences by workers' compensation, Medicare, and employer-sponsored group health insurance. She received her PhD in Economics from the University of California-Berkeley.

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Publications

  • Published on 4/1/2026

    Yee CA, Palani S, Barr K, Pizer SD. Provider Supply and Access to Specialty Care. Health Serv Res. 2026 Apr; 61(2):e70103. PMID: 41979223.

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  • Published on 3/25/2026

    Song S, Pizer SD, Yee CA. Telehealth and the work behavior of mental health clinicians. Health Aff Sch. 2026 Apr; 4(4):qxag070. PMID: 42016489.

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  • Published on 2/1/2025

    Feyman Y, Dorneo A, Pizer SD, Yee C. Veterans Health Administration benefit value has little effect on reliance. Am J Manag Care. 2025 Feb 01; 31(2):e56-e61. PMID: 39977288.

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  • Published on 12/1/2024

    Yee CA, Sadej I, Mattar F, Barr K, Palani S, Lum J, Song S, Jan T. TeleCritical Care Program Evaluation. Partnered Evidence-based Policy Resource Center, U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs. Boston, MA. 2024.

  • Published on 2/23/2024

    Lum J, Sadej I, Pizer SD, Yee C. Telehealth Access and Substitution in the VHA. J Gen Intern Med. 2024 Feb; 39(Suppl 1):44-52. PMID: 38393611.

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  • Published on 9/1/2022

    Yee CA, Borba PS. Impact of Treatment Guidelines in Texas. Workers Compensation Research Institute. Cambridge, MA. 2022.

  • Published on 5/1/2022

    Caro F, Ho T, McFadden DL, Gottlieb A, Yee CA, Chan T, Winter J. Social Science Computer Review. Using the Internet to Administer More Realistic Vignette Experiments. 2022; 30(2): 184-201.

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  • Published on 4/5/2022

    Yee CA, Barr K, Minegishi T, Frakt A, Pizer SD. Provider supply and access to primary care. Health Econ. 2022 Jul; 31(7):1296-1316. PMID: 35383414.

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  • Published on 3/30/2022

    Yee CA, Feyman Y, Pizer SD. Dually-enrolled patients choose providers with lower wait times: Budgetary implications for the VHA. Health Serv Res. 2022 Aug; 57(4):744-754. PMID: 35355261.

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  • Published on 8/21/2020

    Yee CA, Pizer SD, Frakt A. Medicare's Bundled Payment Initiatives for Hospital-Initiated Episodes: Evidence and Evolution. Milbank Q. 2020 09; 98(3):908-974. PMID: 32820837.

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