Cash Markets in Health Care

Tuesday, June 14, 2016: 1:15 PM-2:45 PM
G55 (Huntsman Hall)
Chair:
Katherine Hempstead

This session focuses on consumer decision making and provider prices in markets where consumers pay for health care with cash. Included papers include the impact of sizable cash-paying populations on hospital charges, outpatient visit prices charged to uninsured customers, and relationship between cash and negotiated prices for imaging.

1:15 PM
The Amish and hospital prices: the impact of a cash-paying population

Author(s): Katherine Hempstead

Discussant: Angela Fertig

1:35 PM
Shopping for Primary Care: What Can Patients Learn When They Ask for Price?

Author(s): Brendan Saloner

Discussant: Michel H. Boudreaux

1:55 PM
A cash market for imaging in California

Author(s): Sean Nicholson

Discussant: Michael R. Richards