Education
Ph.D., Economics, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 2002. B.A., Economics, Baylor University, 1997.

Research Areas
Physician organizations; physician incentives and learning; prescription drugs and medical devices; hospital competition under managed care.

Recent Consulting
Pfizer Inc; Wolters Kluwer Health

Current Projects
Physician-hospital gainsharing; physician decisionmaking; diffusion of drug-eluting stents; Medicare Part D.

Academic Positions Held
Arizona State University: 2005-present; Previous appointments: Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Management and Policy, University of California, Berkeley, and University of California, San Francisco, 2002-2004.

Recent Professional Awards
Principal Investigator, R01, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. "Hospital-Physician Gainsharing." $484k.

Representative Publications

Saif Rathore, Jonathan Ketcham, G. Caleb Alexander, Andrew Epstein. 2009. "Influence of Patient Race on Physician Prescribing Decisions: A Randomized On-line Experiment." Journal of General Internal Medicine,24(11): 1183-91.

Jonathan Ketcham, Karen Lutfey, Eric Gerstenberger, Carol Link and John McKinlay. 2009. "Physician Clinical Information Technology and Health Care Disparities." Medical Care Research and Review, 66: 658-681.

Jonathan Ketcham and Kosali Simon. 2008. "Medicare Part D's Effects on Elderly Drug Costs and Utilization." American Journal of Managed Care, 14(11): SP14-22. Previously NBER working paper #14326.

Jonathan Ketcham and Jeffrey Ngai. 2008. "How Similar are States' Medicaid Preferred Drug Lists?" American Journal of Managed Care, 14(11): SP46-52. 

Andrew Epstein, Saif Rathore, G. Caleb Alexander, and Jonathan Ketcham. 2008. "Primary Care Physicians' Views on Medicare Part D." American Journal of Managed Care, 14(11): SP5-13.

Jonathan Ketcham and Michael Furukawa. 2008. "Hospital-Physician Gainsharing in Cardiology." Health Affairs 27(3): 803-812.

Glenn Melnick and Jonathan Ketcham. 2008. "Have HMOs Broadened their Hospital Networks: Changes in HMO Hospital Networks in California, 1999-2003." Medical Care 46(3): 339-342.

Jonathan Ketcham and Andrew Epstein. 2008. "Medicaid Preferred Drug Lists' Costs to Physicians." Medical Care 46(1): 9-16.

Michael Furukawa, Jonathan Ketcham and Mary Rimsza. 2007. "Physician Practice Revenues and Use of Information Technology in Patient Care." Medical Care. 45(2): 168-176. 

Jonathan Ketcham, Laurence Baker, and Donna MacIsaac. 2007. "Physician practice size and variations in treatments and outcomes: Evidence from Medicare patients with acute myocardial infarction." Health Affairs. 26(1): 195-205.