Adam Wilk
Asst Professor
Assistant Professor
Faculty, Health Policy and Management
Adam Wilk is an assistant professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management. He is a health economist and health services researcher, conducting research on physician decision-making, access to care for Medicaid beneficiaries and other low-income and underserved populations, and the management of complex, chronically ill patients, particularly patients with end-stage renal disease.
Dr. Wilk received his doctorate at The University of Michigan School of Public Health in 2015. Before his time in Michigan, Dr. Wilk worked to develop episode-based cost-of-care measures at The Brookings Institution and as a consultant to state Medicaid agencies and private insurers at The Lewin Group.
Contact Information
1518 Clifton Rd
Atlanta , GA 30322
Phone: 404-727-1482
Fax: 404-727-9198
Email: adam.s.wilk@emory.edu
Areas of Interest
- Health Economics
- Health Policy
- Health Services Research
- Statistical Modeling
Education
- AB 2006, Dartmouth College
- PhD 2015, University of Michigan
Courses Taught
- HPM 531: Issues in Hlth.Econ.& HlthMgmt
Affiliations & Activities
Memberships: American Society of Nephrology, American Society of Health Economists, Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management, AcademyHealth
Publications
- Saloner, B., Wilk, A. S., Rhodes, K. V., Polsky, D., Candon, M., Hempstead, K., Wissoker, D., & Kenney, G., 2019, Changes in Primary Care Access at Community Health Centers between 2012/2013 and 2016, Health Services Research, 54, 181-186
- Saloner, B., Levin, J., & Wilk, A. S., 2019, Community Health Centers and Policies to Expand Access to Underserved Populations: A Synthesis Review, Medical Care Research and Review, epub 13 May 2019,
- Wilk, A. S. & Jain, S., 2019, Effective Population Health Care Delivery under Medicare’s Merit-based Incentive Payment System: Realigning Accountability with Capability, American Journal of Accountable Care, 7, 28-30
- Wilk, A. S., Hirth, R. A., & Messana, J. M., 2019, Paying for Frequent Dialysis, American Journal of Kidney Diseases, epub 25 Mar. 2019,
- Jain, S., Wilk, A. S., Thorpe, K., & Hammond, S. P., 2018, A Model for Delivering Population Health across the Care Continuum, American Journal of Accountable Care, 9, 16-22
- Wilk, A. S., Evans, L. C., & Jones, D. K., 2018, Expanding Medicaid Access without Expanding Medicaid: Why did Some Non-expansion States Continue the Primary Care Fee Bump?, Journal of Health Policy, Politics and Law, 43, 109-127
- Wilk, A. S., Hirth, R. A., Zhang, W., Wheeler, J. R. C., Turenne, M. N., Nahra, T. A., … & Messana, J. M., 2018, Persistent Variation in Medicare Payment Authorization for Home Hemodialysis Treatments, Health Services Research, 53, 649-670
- Ji, X., Wilk, A. S., Druss, B. G., Lally, C., & Cummings, J. R., 2017, Discontinuity of Medicaid Coverage: Impact on Cost and Utilization among Adult Medicaid Beneficiaries with Major Depression, Medical Care, 55, 735-743
- McClellan, W., Plantinga, L. C., Wilk, A. S., & Patzer, R., 2017, ESRD Databases, Public Policy, and Quality of Care: Translational Medicine and Nephrology, Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, 12, 210-216
- Wilk, A. S. & Chen, L. M., 2017, Interdependence in Decision-making by Medical Consultants: Implications for Improving the Efficiency of Inpatient Physician Services, Hospital Practice, 45, 222-229
- Plantinga, L. C., Pastan, S. O., Wilk, A. S., Krisher, J., Mulloy, L., Gibney, E. M., & Patzer, R. E., 2017, Referral for Kidney Transplantation and Indicators of Quality of Dialysis Care: A Cross-sectional Study, American Journal of Kidney Diseases, 69, 257-265
- Wilk, A. S. & Platt, J. E., 2016, Measuring Physicians' Trust: A Scoping Review with Implications for Public Policy, Social Science and Medicine, 165, 75-81
- Hirth, R. A., Turenne, M. N., Wilk, A. S., Wheeler, J. R. C., Sleeman, K. K., Zhang, W., … & Messana, J. M., 2014, Blood Transfusion Practices in Dialysis Patients in a Dynamic Regulatory Environment, American Journal of Kidney Diseases, 64, 616-621
- Wilk, A. S. & Jones, D. K., 2014, To Extend or Not to Extend the Primary Care ‘Fee Bump’ in Medicaid?, Journal of Health Policy, Politics and Law, 39, 1263-1275
- Chen, L. M., Wilk, A. S., Thumma, J. R., Birkmeyer, J. D., & Banerjee, M., 2014, Use of Medical Consultants for Hospitalized Surgical Patients: An Observational Cohort Study, JAMA Internal Medicine, 174, 1470-1477
- Wilk, A. S., 2013, Differential Responses Among Primary Care Physicians to Varying Medicaid Fees, Inquiry, 50, 296-311