Associate Professor of Pharmacy and Health Systems Sciences
Bouvé College of Health Sciences
Jeanne Madden Biography
Jeanne Madden

Areas of Expertise
Access to health care
Health insurance and health system design
About
Jeanne is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmacy and Health Systems Sciences in the Bouvé College of Health Sciences at Northeastern University. She studies access to health care, in particular the burden of high costs on patients and specific features of health insurance and health system design that can help or hinder patient access to care. Her research has emphasized the impacts of system changes on individuals with special vulnerability, such as those with mental illness or other chronic conditions and socially disadvantaged groups.
Project Description
Her work as an IHESJR Fellow in 2018-19 is focused on food insecurity among Medicare beneficiaries. An inability to access sufficient healthy food is likely at least as harmful as inability to access health care. As risk-sharing arrangements with between providers and payers proliferate, health systems have been intensifying their efforts to address food insecurity as a key social determinant of health.
Publications – Past Three Years
Madden, J.M., Bayapureddy, S., Briesacher, B.A., Zhang, F., Ross-Degnan, D., Soumerai, S. B., Gurwitz, J.H., Galbraith, A.A. Affordability of Medical Care Among Medicare Enrollees. (2021). JAMA Health Forum, 2(12), e214104. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamahealthforum.2021.4104
Lu, C. Y., Zhang, F., Wallace, J., LeCates, R. F., Busch, A. B., Madden, J. M., Callahan, M. X., Foxworth, P., Soumerai, S. B., Ross-Degnan, D., & Wharam, J. F. (2022). High-Deductible Health Plans Paired With Health Savings Accounts Increased Medication Cost Burden Among Individuals With Bipolar Disorder. The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 83(2), 20m13865. https://doi.org/10.4088/JCP.20m13865
Lu, C. Y., Busch, A. B., Zhang, F., Madden, J. M., Callahan, M. X., LeCates, R. F., Wallace, J., Foxworth, P., Soumerai, S. B., Ross-Degnan, D., & Wharam, J. F. (2021). Impact of High-Deductible Health Plans on Medication Use Among Individuals With Bipolar Disorder. Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.), 72(8), 926–934. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.202000362
Wharam, J. F., Wallace, J., LeCates, R. F., Madden, J. M., Zhang, F., Ross-Degnan, D., & Lu, C. Y. (2021). Out-of-Pocket Spending Inequity Among High-Deductible Health Plan Members with Bipolar Disorder. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 10.1007/s11606-021-06773-x. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-021-06773-x
Madden, J. M., Araujo-Lane, C., Foxworth, P., Lu, C. Y., Wharam, J. F., Busch, A. B., Soumerai, S. B., & Ross-Degnan, D. (2021). Experiences of health care costs among people with employer-sponsored insurance and bipolar disorder. Journal of Affective Disorders, 281, 41–50. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2020.10.033
Nekui, F., Galbraith, A. A., Briesacher, B. A., Zhang, F., Soumerai, S. B., Ross-Degnan, D., Gurwitz, J. H., & Madden, J. M. (2021). Cost-related Medication Nonadherence and Its Risk Factors Among Medicare Beneficiaries. Medical Care, 59(1), 13–21. https://doi.org/10.1097/MLR.0000000000001458
Madden, J. M., Foxworth, P. M., Ross-Degnan, D., Allen, K. G., Busch, A. B., Callahan, M. X., Lu, C. Y., & Wharam, J. F. (2021). Integrating Stakeholder Engagement With Claims-Based Research on Health Insurance Design and Bipolar Disorder. Psychiatric Services (Washington, D.C.), 72(2), 186–194. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.202000177
Wharam, J. F., Busch, A. B., Madden, J., Zhang, F., Callahan, M., LeCates, R. F., Foxworth, P., Soumerai, S., Ross-Degnan, D., & Lu, C. Y. (2020). Effect of high-deductible insurance on health care use in bipolar disorder. The American Journal of Managed Care, 26(6), 248–255. https://doi.org/10.37765/ajmc.2020.43487
Madden, J. M., Shetty, P. S., Zhang, F., Briesacher, B. A., Ross-Degnan, D., Soumerai, S. B., & Galbraith, A. A. (2020). Risk Factors Associated With Food Insecurity in the Medicare Population. JAMA internal medicine, 180(1), 144–147. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamainternmed.2019.3900