Benjamin D Sommers MD
Professor of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
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3297 Washington StJamaica Plain, MA 02130
Phone+1 617-522-4700
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Education & Training
Mass General Brigham/Brigham and Women's HospitalResidency, Internal Medicine, 2007 - 2010
Harvard Medical SchoolClass of 2007
Certifications & Licensure
MA State Medical License 2009 - 2026
DC State Medical License 2011 - 2013
American Board of Internal Medicine Internal Medicine
Clinical Trials
- A Brief Intervention to Improve Cost-effective Resource Use Among Medicine Housestaff Start of enrollment: 2009 Sep 01
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- Insurance Dynamics During Childhood in the Fragmented US Health System.Ye Shen, Benjamin D Sommers, Laura A Hatfield, Catherine Hayes, Ankur Pandya
JAMA. 2025-09-24 - Impact of Telemedicine on Health Expenditures During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan: Quasi-Experimental Study.Hikaru Aihara, Ichiro Kawachi, Benjamin D Sommers
Journal of Medical Internet Research. 2025-09-23 - The Past and Future of Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act-Support or Sabotage?Gabriella Aboulafia, Jonathan Gruber, Benjamin D Sommers
JAMA. 2025-07-08
Journal Articles
- Comparison of Utilization, Costs, and Quality of Medicaid vs Subsidized Private Health Insurance for Low-Income AdultsBenjamin Sommers, MD, JAMA Network Open
- Prescribing Paid Sick Leave—an Important Tool for Primary Care During the PandemicBenjamin Sommers, MD, JAMA
- Association of Medicaid Expansion with 1-Year Mortality Among Patients with End-Stage Renal DiseaseBenjamin D Sommers, Rajnish Mehrotra, Amal N Trivedi, JAMA
Authored Content
- Prescribing Paid Sick Leave—an Important Tool for Primary Care During the PandemicJuly 2020
- Prescribing Paid Sick Leave—an Important Tool for Primary Care During the PandemicJuly 2020
- Prescribing Paid Sick Leave—an Important Tool for Primary Care During the PandemicJuly 2020
Press Mentions
'A Slap in the Face': Georgia and Arkansas' Medicaid Work Rules May Preview the Road AheadJuly 3rd, 2025- Medical Debt Was Cut Nearly in Half in States That Expanded MedicaidJuly 29th, 2021
- Medical Debt Has Been Almost Halved Within the States That Expanded MedicaidJuly 26th, 2021
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Grant Support
- Policy And Demographic Predictors Of Medicaid Take-Up Among Non-Elderly AdultsAgency For Healthcare Research And Quality2010
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