Publications

• A Licensure Framework for Autonomous Clinical AI

Alon Bergman, Robert M. Wachter, Ezekiel J. Emanuel

JAMA, 2026; 335(20): 1751

Press: The Atlantic

• Financial Relationships Between Research Sponsors and Funded Investigators in the US

Alon Bergman

JAMA Network Open, 2026

Press: MedPage Today

• Income and Geographic Disparities in In-Hospital Mortality Following Cardiovascular Procedures: Evidence From the National Inpatient Sample, 2016–2022

Alon Bergman, Ashwin Nathan

Health Services Research, 2026

• Characterizing Industry Payments for FDA-Approved AI Medical Devices

Alon Bergman, Tej A. Patel, Kaustav P. Shah

Health Affairs Scholar, 2025; 3(12): qxaf211.

• Inpatient to Outpatient Shifts in Surgical Care: Persistence of COVID-19 Era Changes and Socioeconomic Variations

Angela Chen, Philip Saynisch, Hummy Song, Aaron Smith-McLallen, Guy David, Alon Bergman

Medical Care Research and Review, 2026; 83(2): 156–164.

• Measuring Hospital Inpatient Procedure Access Inequality in the United States

Alon Bergman, Guy David, Candace Gunnarsson, Michael Ryan, Jay Giri, Ashwin Nathan, Soumya Chikermane, Christin Thompson, Seth Clancy

Health Affairs Scholar, 2024.

Press: Knowledge@Wharton

• Missing in Action: A Bibliometric Analysis of Military Research in the Medical Literature Since 1950

Deacon Lile, Alon Bergman, Jamie Rolfing, Thomas David, Kirby Gross, Eric Elster, Rhonda Allard, Jeremy Cannon

Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, 2024.

• Access to Mental Health and Substance Use Treatment in Comprehensive Primary Care Plus

Tatiane Santos, Alon Bergman, Aaron Smith-McLallen

JAMA Network Open, 2024.

Press: PhillyVoice

• Limited Access to Aortic Valve Procedures in Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Areas

Guy David, Alon Bergman, Candace Gunnarsson, Michael Ryan, Soumya Chikermane, Christin Thompson, Seth Clancy

Journal of the American Heart Association, 2024.

Press: TCTMD

• The Relationship Between Scope of Practice Laws for Task Delegation and Nurse Turnover in Home Health

Molly Candon, Alon Bergman, Amber Rose, Hummy Song, Guy David, Joanne Spetz

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 2023; 24(11): 1773–1778.

• “I Quit”: The Role of Schedule Volatility in Employee Turnover

Alon Bergman, Hummy Song, Guy David

Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 2023.

Press: CNN, Knowledge@Wharton

• Medical Device Firm Payments to Physicians Exceed What Drug Companies Pay Physicians, Target Surgical Specialists

Alon Bergman, Matthew Grennan, Ashley Swanson

Health Affairs, 2021; 40(4): 603–612.

Press: STAT News, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Politico, KFF Health News, Medical Device Network

• The Role of Schedule Volatility in Home Health Nursing Turnover

Alon Bergman, Hummy Song, Guy David, Joanne Spetz, Molly Candon

Medical Care Research and Review, 2021.

• Telemedicine Catches On: Changes in the Utilization of Telemedicine Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Ari Friedman, Hummy Song, Stephanie Gervasi, Alon Bergman, Amy Bond, Angela Chen, Guy David, Julie Bailey, Aaron Smith-McLallen

American Journal of Managed Care, 2021.

• Disruptions in Preventive Care: Mammograms During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Hummy Song, Alon Bergman, Angela Chen, Daniel Ellis, Guy David, Ari Friedman, Amy Bond, Julie Bailey, Ronald Brooks, Aaron Smith-McLallen

Health Services Research, 2021.

Press: Quartz, Knowledge@Wharton

Commentary

• AI Doctors Should Be Licensed. Here’s a Framework to Do That

Alon Bergman

STAT News, May 2026.

Working Papers

• Lobbying Physicians: Payments from Industry and Hospital Procurement of Medical Devices

Alon Bergman, Matthew Grennan, Ashley Swanson

NBER Working Paper 29583

Payments from device firms to physicians are pervasive — 87% of device sales in our sample occurred at a hospital where a relevant physician was paid — and strongly correlated with what hospitals subsequently spend with the paying firm.

• Capacity Spillovers from Private Substitution: Evidence from Hospital-at-Home

Alon Bergman, Guy David

Under Review

Each Hospital-at-Home transfer raises the low-income share of a hospital’s census by 1.6 percentage points, with effects concentrated above 95% occupancy — private substitution by advantaged patients improves equity in the public inpatient system.

• So Long, and Thanks for All the Meals: Physician Prescribing After Detailing Stops

Alon Bergman

Using acquisitions as a source of exogenous variation in pharmaceutical detailing, I find that stopping payments to a physician reduces the probability she prescribes from the affected drug class by roughly 5 percentage points.

• Strategic Pricing and Competitive Procurement in the Physician Services Market

Alon Bergman, Guy Arie, Gerard J. Wedig

Physicians adjust patient access in response to price gaps between public and private insurers: a 10% increase in private prices reduces public beneficiaries’ share of physician services by 4%.

• Athletic Competition and High School Performance: A Dynamic Regression Discontinuity Analysis

Alon Bergman

Online appendix

Using discontinuities in Texas athletic conference assignment, I find that higher levels of interscholastic competition lower school average ACT scores by 1.4% and TAKS pass rates by 3 percentage points.

Works in Progress

• Connectivity and Health: The Impact of Telemedicine in Rural Settings during the Pandemic
  with Hummy Song, Alejandra Benitez, and Guy David

• Patient Outcomes and Care Utilization in a Real-World Commercial Hospital-at-Home Program
  with Guy David

• Identifying Sorting Into Echo Chambers
  with Dionissi Aliprantis and Gregorio Caetano