Vilsa Eliana Curto
Vilsa Eliana Curto, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Health Policy at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and a Faculty Affiliate at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. Dr. Curto is a health economist with an AB in Mathematics from Harvard, an MA in Economics from Stanford, and a PhD in Economics from Stanford. Before joining UCLA, Dr. Curto was Assistant Professor of Health Economics and Policy at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Curto’s research interests include private Medicare health plans, managed competition in health care markets, and vertical integration in health care markets.
Center Affiliations
Education
- AB, Mathematics, Harvard University
- MA, Economics, Stanford University
- PhD, Economics, Stanford University
Google Scholar Profile
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=y4ekvwkAAAAJ&hl=en
ORCID Profile
https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0001-9947-4094
Curriculum Vitae
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Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
1. Bernstein EY, Fu CX, Ayanian JZ, Curto VE, Anderson TS, Landon BE. Association of Medicare Advantage vs Traditional Medicare with Clinical Outcomes Among Patients Hospitalized for Substance Use Disorders. Journal of General Internal Medicine. Published online February 10, 2025. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11606-025-09413-w
2. Curto VE, Politzer E, Anderson TS, Ayanian JZ, Souza J, Zaslavsky AM, Landon BE. Coding Intensity Variation in Medicare Advantage. Health Affairs Scholar. 2025;3(1):qxae176. https://academic.oup.com/healthaffairsscholar/article/3/1/qxae176/7958334
3. Ianni KM, Sinaiko AD, Curto VE, Soto M, Rosenthal MB. Quality-of-Care Outcomes in Vertical Relationships Between Physicians and Health Systems. JAMA Health Forum. 2024;5(8):e242173. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-health-forum/fullarticle/2821687