Paula Chatterjee, MD, MPH, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine. Dr. Chatterjee’s research interests include hospital and post-acute care quality, alternative payment models, Medicaid policy, and the health care safety net. Her recent projects have focused on understanding the relationship between hospital finances and quality of care in rural and urban safety-net hospitals, and on the allocation and impact of Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital payments. Her work has appeared in NEJM, JAMA, JAMA Internal Medicine, Health Affairs, The Lancet: Public Health, and the American Journal of Public Health. Dr. Chatterjee completed her residency in Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She holds an MD from Harvard Medical School, where she also earned an MPH in Chronic Disease Epidemiology. She practices inpatient medicine at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center in Philadelphia, PA.
Areas of Expertise | Health Care Disparities, Medicaid and CHIP, Rural Health, Safety-net Care
Clinical Area | General Internal Medicine
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Selected Publications:
Chatterjee P, Sinha S, Reszczynski O, Amin A, Schpero WL. Variation And Changes In The Targeting Of Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital Payments. Health Aff (Millwood). 2022 Dec;41(12):1781-1789. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2022.00153. PMID: 36469825.
Schpero WL, Chatterjee P. Structural Racial Disparities in the Allocation of Disproportionate Share Hospital Payments. JAMA Netw Open. 2022 Nov 1;5(11):e2240328. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.40328. PMID: 36331505; PMCID: PMC9636516.
Chatterjee P, Lin Y, Venkataramani AS. Changes in economic outcomes before and after rural hospital closures in the United States: A difference-in-differences study. Health Serv Res. 2022 Oct;57(5):1020-1028. doi: 10.1111/1475-6773.13988. Epub 2022 Apr 27. PMID: 35426125; PMCID: PMC9441283.
Chatterjee P, Werner RM, Joynt Maddox KE. Medicaid Expansion Alone Not Associated With Improved Finances, Staffing, Or Quality At Critical Access Hospitals. Health Aff (Millwood). 2021 Dec;40(12):1846-1855. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2021.00643. PMID: 34871072; PMCID: PMC8842545.
Chatterjee P, Werner RM. Gender Disparity in Citations in High-Impact Journal Articles. JAMA Netw Open. 2021 Jul 1;4(7):e2114509. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.14509. Erratum in: JAMA Netw Open. 2021 Aug 2;4(8):e2127739. PMID: 34213560; PMCID: PMC8254129.
Chatterjee P, Qi M, Werner RM. Association of Medicaid Expansion With Quality in Safety-Net Hospitals. JAMA Intern Med. 2021 May 1;181(5):590-597. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.9142. PMID: 33587092; PMCID: PMC7885093.
Chatterjee P, Sommers BD, Joynt Maddox KE. Essential but Undefined - Reimagining How Policymakers Identify Safety-Net Hospitals. N Engl J Med. 2020 Dec 31;383(27):2593-2595. doi: 10.1056/NEJMp2030228. Epub 2020 Dec 23. PMID: 33369352.
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