Hospital acquisitions
Examining changes associated with ownership transitions and consolidation.
Research
Ask what changed—then test why.
My research examines how policy, financing, systems, and implementation choices affect outcomes, stability, access, and equity.
Doctoral research
Evaluating U.S. Health Policy Levers on Outcomes and Stability Using Difference-in-Differences: Consolidation, Global Budgets, and Income Policies.
This three-study portfolio examines how policy interventions affect hospital performance and population health. The work uses quasi-experimental designs, administrative and survey data, robustness checks, and transparent attention to identifying assumptions.
Maryland global budgets
Comparing hospital margins and revenue per discharge under an all-payer global budget model.
Income policy & health
Assessing whether income-policy differences translate into changes in self-rated health.
Credible interpretation
Testing assumptions, examining trends, documenting limitations, and separating association from defensible causal claims.
Selected publication
2026
Did Maryland's All-Payer Global Budget Revenue Model Change Hospital Margins and Revenue per Discharge? A Difference-in-Differences Analysis of Maryland and Massachusetts, 2010–2023
Adegoke, K. Health Services Insights.
https://doi.org/10.1177/11786329261486708Methods and analytic approach
Quasi-experimental design
Difference-in-differences, staggered adoption, event-study logic, comparison-group design, and sensitivity analysis.
Administrative & survey data
Hospital financial and operational data, provider characteristics, population-health surveys, and policy datasets.
Mixed-methods evidence
Quantitative measurement strengthened by qualitative inquiry, document analysis, stakeholder perspectives, and implementation context.
Decision-ready outputs
Methods and results communicated through clear limitations, actionable findings, monitoring measures, and implementation implications.
Research principles
A result is only as useful as the question it answers, the assumptions it survives, and the decisions it can responsibly support.
My research practice emphasizes reproducible logic, appropriate comparison, explicit limitations, ethical data use, and communication that avoids overstating what the evidence can establish.
Research & evaluation
For collaborations that require rigor and practical translation.
Connect about health-policy research, evaluation design, evidence synthesis, or implementation-focused analytics.