Dr. Austin Frakt, health economist at the Department of Veterans Affairs, associate professor at Boston University, and adjunct associate professor at Harvard, is widely known as the founder and co-editor of the popular online health policy blog “The Incidental Economist.” Dr. Frakt is a regular contributor to the New York Times, is a senior associate editor of the academic journal Health Services Research, and serves on the editorial board of The American Journal of Managed Care. His academic papers have appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and many other leading health and economics publications.