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Jul 30, 2025
UCLA Center for Health Policy Research affiliate Ashvin Gandhi co-authored a study shows how the cost-saving measure of soft spending caps in Medicare disproportionately affected affect racialized minorities and low-income people the most.
Mar 12, 2025
A new study in the New England Journal of Medicine co-authored by UCLA Center for Health Policy Research affiliate Ashvin Gandhi found that frequent nursing home staff testing was especially beneficial for preventing COVID cases and deaths in the era before vaccines became available.
Feb 05, 2025
Ashvin Gandi and his co-authors describe their study that showed that during the pandemic employer vaccine mandates significantly increased the number of staff at nursing homes who became vaccinated, which had life-saving effects on the health of nursing home residents.
May 29, 2024
Research by Ashvin Gandhi, a faculty affiliate of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and a professor at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, is cited in this report on for-profit nursing homes.
Apr 28, 2024
Los Angeles Times' columnist Steve Lopez talks with Ashvin Gandhi, a professor and faculty associate at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, about how nursing home companies sometimes use “tunneling” practices to obscure true profitability.
Mar 24, 2024
Ashvin Gandhi, faculty associate at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, and his expertise on the problems with nursing home care is cited in this opinion column about staffing shortages at nursing homes.
Sep 11, 2023
Nearly two years after skilled nursing providers first took their concerns about massive nursing agency price hikes to federal regulators, they’re again warning of overreliance on temporary workers due to a federal staffing mandate that could lower quality and raise costs substantially. Ashvin Gandhi, an assistant professor of economics at UCLA, studies nursing home staffing and turnover.