Research

The Hollingsworth Lab

The Hollingsworth lab has two areas of research focus: 1) understanding the role of specialist physicians in value-based payment reforms and 2) reducing unwarranted practice variation in the care of patients with urinary stone disease. Our current grant-funded projects include investigations on the effects of Medicare ACOs on surgical care delivery; program evaluations of the Comprehensive ESRD Care Model and the recent overhaul to the Shared Savings Program known as “Pathways to Success;” and comparative effectiveness studies, examining different preventive pharmacological therapy agents for kidney stones.