As a health economist, his research examines how health related factors, such as an individual's health insurance status or the structure of providers and payer institutions, impact medical decision making and the subsequent impact of these decisions on the cost and quality of care sought and received. In particular, he focuses on the prevention and control of major chronic diseases, which include cancer, heart disease and diabetes - diagnoses that require a high level of coordination between individual patients, treating institutions and payers to minimize the probability of future acute and adverse outcomes.