Sarosh Imran
Sarosh Imran is a rising senior at Pitzer College from Islamabad, Pakistan, majoring in Mathematical Economics. His academic interests lie at the intersection of economics, data analysis, and public policy, with a particular focus on using quantitative methods to study real-world issues in healthcare, financial markets, and economic inequality. After graduation, he hopes to pursue a career that combines economic research, data-driven analysis, and public policy impact.
Sarosh works as a research assistant with Professor Sean Flynn at Scripps College, where he studies health economics and the ways healthcare payment models shape provider incentives, care delivery, and access to care. As part of this work, he has developed Medicare-focused teaching exercises on diagnosis coding, MS-DRG assignment, and reimbursement estimation to better understand how documentation and payment rules affect provider behavior. He has also analyzed survey data from Direct Primary Care physicians to study workload, patient panel sizes, income structure, and career satisfaction.
As a SUMR Scholar, Sarosh works on two health economics research projects with Professor Abby Alpert and Susan Chi. With Professor Alpert, he studies how Pharmacy Benefit Managers influence drug pricing, patient access, and healthcare spending, examining how regulation and market competition shape the pharmaceutical industry. As part of the project, he helps assess how policy and market changes affect pharmaceutical outcomes using health economics research and quasi-experimental econometric methods. With Susan Chi, he studies how vertical integration between hospitals and skilled nursing facilities affects the quality of post-acute care. He assists in linking hospital-SNF ownership relationships with facility-level quality measures, including staffing and deficiency citations, to better understand whether integration improves care coordination or raises concerns about competition and quality.