Victor Roy, MD

Family Medicine
Accepting new patients
Sees patients of all ages
Penn Family Care
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About me

  • Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
  • Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy

My education and training

  • Medical School: Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Spoken languages

English
English

Insurance accepted

Please contact the practice and/or the member services department of your insurance company for specific details before receiving services. Providers may participate in some, but not all, products offered by a health plan; providers may also accept plans at some practice locations but not others.

Locations

Penn Medicine hospital privileges

  • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Pennsylvania Hospital: On the medical staff, but does not have privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Roy is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and Conditions

Research

Publications

Roy V, Barsky BA, Fuse Brown EC, Suen LW. When profit meets public health: Private equity in methadone treatment. , International Journal of Drug Policy., 151: 2026,105209

Rose, M. R., Flexner, C., & Roy, V. Subscription-Based Pricing for Lenacapavir—Learning From Hepatitis C and Cabotegravir. , JAMA: 2026

Roy V, Amana V, Ross JS, Gross CP. Shareholder Payouts Among Large Publicly Traded Health Care Companies. , JAMA Internal Medicine. : 2025

Hunter BM, McCoy D, Cordilha AC, Roy, V, et al. Private finance and the threat to global health. , BMJ Glob Health, 10(6): 2025

Roy V, Buonora M, Simon C, Dooling B, Joudrey P. Adoption of methadone take-home policy by state opioid treatment authorities during COVID-19. , International Journal of Drug Policy, 124(104302): 2024

J.D. Bruch, V. Roy, and C.M. Grogan The Financialization of Health in the United States , The New England Journal of Medicine, 390(2): 2024,178-182

Roy V, Hamilton D, Chokshi DA. Health and political economy: building a new common sense in the United States. , Health Affairs Scholar, 5(2): 2024

Roy V, Ross JS, Ramachandran R. A Public Option for Clinical Trials? Lessons from Convalescent Plasma. , J Law Med Ethics. , 52(1): 2024

Victor Roy Financing covid-19 mRNA vaccines , The BMJ, 380: 2023,413

Victor Roy Capitalizing a Cure: How Finance Controls the Price and Value of Medicines. , California: University of California Press: 2023