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Professor | University of Michigan
School of Public Health
1415 Washington Heights, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2029
Recent Research
Current Diabetes Reports, 2025 May 13;25(1):32.
Financial Toxicity in Diabetes: The State of What We Know
Patel MR.
Journal of Advanced Nursing. 2025 Mar 10.
Leveraging artificial intelligence to identify and intervene on unmet social needs through care coordination: A scoping review
Davis VH*, Pinto A, Patel MR.
Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes, 2025 Jan 6;9(1):2.
Clinically meaningful classes of financial toxicity for patients with diabetes
Patel MR, Troost JP, Heisler M, Carlozzi NE.
Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2024 Dec 9.
Unbanked status among individuals with diabetes: Exploring reasons, correlates, and implications for financial and health outcomes
Patel MR.
Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2024 Oct;39(13):2415-2424.
Randomized Controlled Trial to Improve Unmet Social Needs and Clinical Outcomes Among Adults with Diabetes
Patel MR, Zhang G*, Heisler M, Piette JD, Resnicow K, Choe HM, Shi X, Song P. A
JAMA Network Open, 2024 Mar 4;7(3):e243723.
Food insecurity at a large academic medical center: understanding the scope, trends, risk factors, and disparities in patients’ interest in assistance
Leung CW, Patel MR, Miller M, Spring E, Wang Z, Wolfson JA, Cohen AJ, Heisler M, Hao W.
Support Care Cancer. 2026 Jan 7;34(2):74.
Financial concerns of adults with cancer using patient navigation services offered through employer-sponsored benefits
Patel MR, Marshall J, Zhang G*, Feng K*, Davis V*. Brown A.
JAMA Health Forum 2025 Oct 3;6(10):e254639.
Employment and Health Burden Changes Among Medicaid Expansion Enrollees
Patel MR, Clark S, Beathard E, Box N, Kirch M, Tipernini R, Ayanian JZ, Goold S.
Recent Media Features
Invited Testimony on Hospital Financial Assistance and Medical Debt
Provided invited testimony before the Michigan Senate Health Policy Committee in Lansing, MI on November 5, 2025, addressing hospital financial assistance policies and their role in mitigating medical debt in relation to Senate Bills 701–702. The testimony informed policy discussions on improving access to financial support and reducing the burden of medical debt on patients.
Why A Plan To Lower Prescription Drug Prices Should Not Be Piecemeal
High Stakes, Little Action
Forgiving Medical Debt is Crucial, But it Won't Fix Our Healthcare System | Opinion
We need to fix broken systems that create medical debt in the first place