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Last published 2026
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Kelsey M. Owsley

Assistant Professor

Also affiliated: Tulane University (2025); Colorado School of Public Health (2020–2022); Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation (2022–2026); Arkansas Department of Health (2023–2026); University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus (2020–2022)

Faculty Researcher

CPH | Health Policy & Management

7 h-index 27 pubs 229 cited

  • Humans
  • Neoplasms
  • United States
  • Health Services Accessibility
  • Insurance, Health
  • Medicaid
  • Hospitals, Voluntary
  • Social Vulnerability
  • Female
  • Middle Aged
  • Aged
  • Employment
  • Drug Costs
  • Poverty
  • Tax Exemption

Biography and Research Information

OverviewAI-generated summary

Kelsey M. Owsley's research focuses on the financial and psychosocial impacts of cancer caregiving, particularly among working individuals with low incomes. Her work investigates the lasting financial burdens of cancer, including the high cost of treatments like immunotherapy for Medicare survivors. Owsley also examines the accessibility of oncology services, exploring how programs like the 340B Drug Pricing Program influence service availability in rural areas and hospital participation in the program. Her publications have analyzed the relationship between nonprofit hospital community benefit spending and system membership, as well as the effects of community benefit reform on charity care and medical debt write-offs. Owsley's scholarship includes studies on treatment preferences among adults with varying cognitive abilities. She has an h-index of 7, with 27 publications and 224 citations, and collaborates with researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, including Tatiane Santos, Jaimi L. Allen, and Mario Schootman.

Metrics

  • h-index: 7
  • Publications: 27
  • Citations: 229

Selected Publications

  • Telehealth Utilization Patterns among Patients with Chronic Conditions Across Age, Gender, Geography, and Insurance in Arkansas (2026)
    Telemedicine Journal and e-Health DOI OpenAlex
  • Delay in breast cancer surgery: evaluating patient, healthcare access, and social vulnerability predictors (2026)
    Cancer Causes & Control DOI OpenAlex
  • Poststroke Telehealth Utilization Patterns Across Gender, Geography, Insurance, and Age in Arkansas (2026)
    Telemedicine Journal and e-Health 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Protecting patients in the U.S. from the financial burden of cancer immunotherapy: what can be done? (2025)
    Immunotherapy DOI OpenAlex
  • Long-Term Impact of Medicaid Expansion on Not-for-Profit Hospital Community Benefit Spending in the Southern United States (2025)
    Medical Care DOI OpenAlex
  • Cancer Burden in Persistent Poverty Areas across the Cancer Continuum: A Scoping Review to Identify Gaps and Opportunities for Future Research (2025)
    Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Oregon Not-for-Profit Hospital Community Benefit Policy: Trends in Community Benefit Spending (2025)
    Healthcare DOI OpenAlex
  • Financial burden of high-cost immunotherapy among cancer survivors in Medicare (2025)
    Journal of Cancer Survivorship 6 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Oregon Community Benefit Reform Influenced Not-For-Profit Hospitals’ Charity Care And Medical Debt Write-Off (2025)
    Health Affairs 6 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Evaluating Not-For-Profit Hospital Community Benefit Spending (2025)
    Medical Care DOI OpenAlex
  • Utilization of Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support Among Medicare Beneficiaries Newly Diagnosed With Diabetes in Arkansas, 12 Months Postdiagnosis (2015-2018) (2024)
    The Science of Diabetes Self-Management and Care 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • US Hospital Service Availability and New 340B Program Participation (2024)
    JAMA Health Forum 16 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Community social vulnerability and the 340B Drug Pricing Program: Evaluating predictors of 340B participation among critical access hospital (2024)
    The Journal of Rural Health 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Much work to do about measuring work (2023)
    JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 3 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Access To Oncology Services In Rural Areas: Influence Of The 340B Drug Pricing Program (2023)
    Health Affairs 13 citations DOI OpenAlex

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Grants & Funding

As listed on this researcher's institutional profile.

  • GLP-1 Based Therapies on Lymphedema in Overweight or Obese Breast Cancer Patients State of Arkansas via Arkansas Breast Cancer Research Program Principal Investigator
  • Optimizing Telehealth in Caring for Patients with Multiple Chronic Conditions NIH/National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences via Tulane University Principal Investigator

Collaboration Network

40 Collaborators 24 Institutions 2 Countries

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