Hessam Bavafa

University of Wisconsin - Madison - School of Business

Assistant Professor

975 University Ave

4284C Grainger Hall

Madison, WI 53706

United States

http://https://bus.wisc.edu/faculty/hessam-bavafa

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

15

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58

Scholarly Papers (15)

1.

The Impact of E-Visits on Visit Frequencies and Patient Health: Evidence from Primary Care

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 05 Dec 2013 Last Revised: 30 Oct 2018
Hessam Bavafa, Lorin M. Hitt and Christian Terwiesch
University of Wisconsin - Madison - School of Business, University of Pennsylvania - Operations & Information Management Department and University of Pennsylvania - Operations & Information Management Department
Downloads 1,936 (17,923)
Citation 21

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health care operations, health information technology, secure messaging, e-visits, patient portals

2.

Customizing Primary Care Delivery Using E-Visits

Number of pages: 83 Posted: 06 Dec 2013 Last Revised: 12 Jun 2021
Hessam Bavafa, Sergei Savin and Christian Terwiesch
University of Wisconsin - Madison - School of Business, Columbia University - Columbia Business School and University of Pennsylvania - Operations & Information Management Department
Downloads 761 (69,249)
Citation 8

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Telemedicine, Healthcare, Service Operations, Information Technology Policy and Management, Contracts, Panel Size, Primary Care, Patient Revisit Intervals, Healthcare Operations

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Quality Improvement Spillovers: Evidence from the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 04 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 06 Jun 2024
Mohamad Soltani, Robert Batt and Hessam Bavafa
University of Alberta, Alberta School of Business, Wisconsin School of Business and University of Wisconsin - Madison - School of Business
Downloads 758 (69,730)
Citation 13

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Healthcare management, Knowledge spillover, Quality spillover, Public policy, Partial incentives, Empirical History : May 2024

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Does What Happens in the ED Stay in the ED? The Effects of Emergency Department Physician Workload on Post-ED Care Use

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 16 Dec 2019 Last Revised: 16 Dec 2021
University of Alberta, Alberta School of Business, Wisconsin School of Business, University of Wisconsin - Madison - School of Business and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads 404 (151,675)
Citation 9

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healthcare, service operations, behavioral operations, queuing, emergency department, multitasking, utilization, empirical

5.

Managing Portfolio of Elective Surgical Procedures: A Multidimensional Inverse Newsvendor Problem

Number of pages: 96 Posted: 06 Dec 2013 Last Revised: 20 Oct 2018
University of Wisconsin - Madison - School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Madison - School of Medicine and Public Health, Koc University and Columbia University - Columbia Business School
Downloads 364 (170,418)

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elective surgical procedures, patient length of stay, surgery duration, hospital capacity management

6.

The Distributional Impact of Fatigue on Performance

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 18 Nov 2021 Last Revised: 24 Aug 2022
Hessam Bavafa and Jónas Oddur Jónasson
University of Wisconsin - Madison - School of Business and MIT Sloan School of Management
Downloads 326 (192,030)
Citation 1

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Fatigue, Service Time Distribution, Performance Consistency, Variability, Operational Performance, Service Operations, Ambulance Operations

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The Variance Learning Curve

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 17 Jul 2020
Hessam Bavafa and Jónas Oddur Jónasson
University of Wisconsin - Madison - School of Business and MIT Sloan School of Management
Downloads 307 (204,725)
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Learning Curves, Performance Consistency, Service Time Variability, Operational Performance, Service Operations, Ambulance Operations

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Capacity Rationing in Primary Care: Provider Availability Shocks and Channel Diversion

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 24 Jul 2017 Last Revised: 20 Jul 2020
University of Wisconsin - Madison - School of Business, Veterans Health Administration - VA Healthcare-VISN 4, University of Pennsylvania - School of Social Policy & Practice, University of Pennsylvania - Operations & Information Management Department and University of Pennsylvania - Perelman School of Medicine
Downloads 256 (246,862)
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Health Care Operations, Primary Care, Access to Care, Emergency Room

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Building Financial and Health Literacy at Older Ages: The Role of Online Information

Bavafa, Hessam, Junhao Liu, and Anita Mukherjee. "Building Financial and Health Literacy at Older Ages: The Role of Online Information." Journal of Consumer Affairs 53.3 (2019): 877-916.
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 07 May 2018 Last Revised: 07 Aug 2020
Hessam Bavafa, Junhao Liu and Anita Mukherjee
University of Wisconsin - Madison - School of Business, The Vanguard Group, Inc. and Wisconsin School of Business
Downloads 185 (339,607)
Citation 1

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financial literacy; health literacy; internet use; technology adoption; web skills

10.

Recovering from Critical Incidents: Evidence from Paramedic Performance

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 07 Nov 2018 Last Revised: 17 Apr 2020
Hessam Bavafa and Jónas Oddur Jónasson
University of Wisconsin - Madison - School of Business and MIT Sloan School of Management
Downloads 184 (337,916)

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Critical Incidents, Team Performance, Service Operations, Ambulance Operations

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'If You're Not Keeping Score, You're Just Practicing': A Lean Health Care Program Evaluation Framework

Healthcare Quarterly, 2013 (16), 23-30.
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 19 Jul 2017
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Division of Operations and Logistics, University of Toledo - Department of Information Operations and Technology Management (IOTM), affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of Wisconsin - Madison - School of Business and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads 138 (430,796)

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Lean, evaluation, health care, performance metrics, operations management, six sigma

12.

Inequality in the Golden Years: Wealth Gradients in Disability-Free and Work-Free Longevity in the United States

Journal of Health Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 02 Dec 2022 Last Revised: 19 Nov 2023
Hessam Bavafa, Anita Mukherjee and Tyler Q. Welch
University of Wisconsin - Madison - School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Wisconsin-Madison
Downloads 112 (506,129)

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wealth inequality; disability-free life expectancy; retirement; work capacity

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Beyond Fee-for-Service: How Comprehensive Contracts Can Transform Primary Care

Number of pages: 69 Posted: 03 Nov 2023
Koc University, University of Wisconsin - Madison - School of Business, Koc University - College of Administrative Sciences and Economics and Koc University
Downloads 95 (567,745)

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service operations, healthcare, primary care, pay-for-performance, contracts

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The Burgeoning Health Care Needs of Aging Prisoners

Bavafa, H., & Mukherjee, A. (2019, May). The Burgeoning Health Care Needs of Aging Prisoners. In AEA Papers and Proceedings (Vol. 109, pp. 182-86).
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 16 Sep 2020
Hessam Bavafa and Anita Mukherjee
University of Wisconsin - Madison - School of Business and Wisconsin School of Business
Downloads 87 (599,215)

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prison, aging, health care, chronic conditions

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Inequities in the Golden Years: How Wealth Shapes Healthy and Work-free Life

TIAA Institute Research Paper Series Research Dialogue | Issue no. 204 September 2023
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 26 Oct 2023
Hessam Bavafa, Anita Mukherjee and Tyler Q. Welch
University of Wisconsin - Madison - School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Wisconsin-Madison
Downloads 71 (671,222)

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household saving, wealth, personal finance, retirement, pension