6th Biennial Conference of the American Society of Health Economists

Preconference Workshop: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: Research Databases for Health Economics Research
Herbert S. Wong

Preconference Workshop: NIH Funding Workshop
Partha Bhattacharyya

Preconference Workshop: Teaching Health Economics
Prof. Allen Goodman

Preconference Workshop: Treatment Effect Estimation with Unconfounded Assignment
Jeffrey Wooldridge

Opening Plenary: Bringing Economics and Behavioral Economics to Innovations in Provider Payment Reform
Kevin G. Volpp

Opening Reception

Advice from the Editors of Health Economics Journals
John Cawley

Competition and preferences in health care markets: Behavioral effects of incentives and framing.
Geir Godager

Diagnosis-based Payments in Regulated Insurance Markets
Timothy J. Layton

Do Physicians Practice Defensive Medicine? New Empirical Evidence
Lorens Helmchen

Economics of Provision of High-Cost Healthcare Services
Prof. Jayani Jayawardhana

Effects of Health Insurance on Measures of Socioeconomic Status
Gwyn C Pauley

FDA regulation of drugs and devices and consumer welfare
Margaret Kyle

Health and Labor Markets: Exploring Short and Long-term Income Support Programs
Marguerite Burns

Medicaid Expansion and the ACA: Early Impacts and Alternative Approaches
Benjamin D. Sommers

Mental Health and the Labor Market
Christopher J. Cronin

Nurse practitioner regulations, workforce supply, quality of care, and access to care
Surrey M Walton and Joanne Spetz

Public Policy and Healthcare Decision-Making
Ginger Jin

Substance Abuse Policy and Child Health Production
Joel C Cantor

The Economics of Food Choice and Obesity
Ashlesha Datar

Theoretical Models of Addiction and Their Applications
Michael Grossman

Using Penalties to Improve Performance in Hospital Care
Soeren R Kristensen

Cost, Quality, and Growth in the Ambulatory Surgery Center Market
Elizabeth L. Munnich

Econometric Methods for Health Economics
Wenjia Zhu

Economic Causes and Consequences of Obesity
Chad Meyerhoefer

Environment and Infant Health
Hannes Schwandt

Formal and Informal Home Health Care
Edward C. Norton

Impact of Cost Sharing on Specialty Drug Utilization among Medicare Beneficiaries
Jalpa Doshi

Insurance Plan Choices: Evidence from ACA Exchanges
Maria A. Polyakova

Mental Health, Health Behaviors, and Public Policies: Unintended Consequences
John Buckell

Modeling the Supply Side of Health Reform
Chapin White

More Than Incentives: Motivating Blood and Cord Blood Donations
Keith Ericson

Regulations and Markets for Health Care Providers
Sara Markowitz

The Consequences of Physician Market Concentration
Thomas Koch

The Economics of Reimbursing New Medical Innovations.
Julian Reif

The Influence of the ACA on Employer Sponsored Insurance and Labor Market Outcomes
Jean Abraham

Topics in Pharmaceutical Regulation
Kathleen L. Miller

Presidential Address, Mark Pauly: Subsidies, Externalities, and Moral Hazard: Should Lower Income People Be Allowed to Buy Insurance with High Cost Sharing?
Mark Pauly

Adult Medicaid Coverage: Effects on Health Care Utilization and Health Outcomes
Thomas Buchmueller

Competition in the ACA Exchanges
Eric Barrette

Economic Insights on Illicit Drug Use
Richard A Dunn

Economics of Children’s Mental Health
Dhaval Dave

Generic Drug Competition
Leemore Dafny

Health Care Reform 2.0: Alternatives to the Affordable Care Act
Jodi Liu

Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics
Allison Witman

Health, Insurance, and the Labor Market
Andrew E Sfekas

Mothers, Children, and Obesity
Susan Averett

Physician-Hospital Integration
Christopher Ody

Pollution and Child Health
Chad Meyerhoefer

Private Provision of Social Insurance: The Case of Private Plans in Medicare
Maria A. Polyakova

Student Research Panel: New Evidence on the Affordable Care Act
Benjamin D. Sommers

The Effect of Narrowing and Expanding Networks
Jean Abraham

Understanding Physicians Responses to New Compensation Models
Joseph Doyle

Contributed papers in Healthcare Systems and Financing I
Neeraj Sood

Economic Activity and Adverse Health Outcomes
Cecilie D Weatherall

Economics of Mental Health
Padmaja Ayyagari and David Simon

Field Experiments for Healthy Diets and Weight Loss
Jody L. Sindelar

Insurance Expansions and Rollbacks and Access to Health Care
Steven C. Hill

Marijuana Use among Youth
Michael T. French

Medicaid Expansions and Labor Market Outcomes
Thomas Buchmueller

Medical Marijuana Regulation
Lauren Hersch Nicholas

Policy, Fertility, and Outcomes
Daniel Rees

Private Plans Competing in Publicly-Subsidized Settings: Impacts on Premiums, Provider Prices, and Quantities
Michael Geruso

The Economics of Coverage and Payment Policy in Pharmaceutical Markets
Ashley Swanson

The Effects of ACA Taxes and Subsidies
Jessica Vistnes

The Impact of Payment Innovations on Hospital Behavior
Karoline Mortensen

The Long Term Effects of Medicaid Coverage
Sarah Miller

Understanding Medicare Plan Choice: Costs, Consequences, and Policy Options
Abigail S. Friedman

ACA and Private Insurance Markets
Anthony LoSasso

Breastfeeding, maternal employment and child care: Implications for child health
Susan Averett

Economic Aspects of Obesity
David Frisvold

Economics of Flu Vaccines
Christopher Carpenter

Environmental Effects on Substance Use
Catherine Maclean

Examinations of health care prices in the US health care system
Eric Barrette

Exploring the role of prices in health care
Scott Barkowski

Health Insurance Coverage in Vulnerable and Minority Populations
David N van der Goes and James F. Burgess

Incentives and risk in the Physicians Market
Pierre-Thomas Leger

Medicare Advantage
Peter J. Huckfeldt

Multi-payer PCMH Evaluations: Findings and Methodological Considerations
Omar Galarraga

Pharmaceutical innovation, physician learning, and the cost of health care provision
Anna Chorniy

Physician Networks, Competition, and Care Delivery
Ian McCarthy

The Affordable Care Act, Health Insurance Coverage, and Labor Market Outcomes
Pinka Chatterji

The Welfare Consequences of Pharmaceutical Regulation
John Romley

ASHEcon Student Mentoring Session (Prior Registration Required)
Kosali Simon and Melinda Pitts

Demand Response, Service Selection, and Medical Adherence
Randall P Ellis

E-cigarettes and FDA Tobacco Regulation
Michael F. Pesko

Economic determinants of diet, nutrition, and obesity
Nathan Tefft

Health Care Consumerism and Price Shopping
Christopher Whaley

Health Economic Perspectives on Value Frameworks
Richard J Willke

Health and Labor Supply
Sally C. Stearns

Hospital Prices in Public and Private Insurance Markets
Samuel Krinsky

Impacts of the Dependent Coverage Provision of the ACA
Yaa Akosa Antwi

Long Term Care Insurance
Norma B. Coe

Pieces to the Puzzle - Economic Aspects of Autism and Special Needs Children
Prof. Jose M Fernandez

Public Policy and Infant Health
Kelly Noonan

Reimbursement rates, Provider Incentives, and the Efficiency of Care Delivery
Martin B. Hackmann

The dynamics of prescription drug utilization
Jeffrey S. McCullough

The federal parity law: Improving access to behavioral health?
Dominic Hodgkin

USING BIG DATA TO IMPROVE POPULATION HEALTH
Mr. Robert D Lieberthal

Effects of Targeted Cost-Sharing and Insurance Plan Designs
Christopher Whaley

Health Plan Provider Network Size, Composition, and Premiums
Jean Abraham

Healthcare Spending Distribution and Growth
Bradley Herring

Hospital response to value reforms from the Affordable Care Act
Edward C. Norton

Medicaid Physician Fees, Use of Preventive Care, and the 2013-2014 ACA Medicaid Fee Bump
Sandra L. Decker

Medicaid, Payment Reform and Mental Health
Bastian Ravesteijn

Medical Care Covered by the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Program
Melissa McInerney

Price-setting in Public and Private Health Care Provision: Mechanisms and Consequences
David Chan

Responsiveness of Demand for E-Cigarettes
Dhaval Dave

Stakeholder Perspectives: A Roundtable on Value Assessment
Jalpa Doshi

The Economics of Organ Donation and Transplantation
Mario Macis

The Economics of Pharmaceutical Advertising and Consumer Information
Jeffrey S. McCullough

The Impact of C-section and Induced Early Birth on Infant and Child Health
Hope Corman

The Impact of Medicare on Well-Being among the Elderly and Chronically Ill
Martin Andersen

Treatment Effect Estimation Methods with Misreported or Missing Data
Adam I. Biener

Posters

Cash Markets in Health Care
Katherine Hempstead

Causes and Correlates of Obesity
Antonis Koumpias

Competition, Pricing, and Hospital Performance
Jill Horwitz

Cost-Effectiveness
Dr. David Meltzer

Demographics and Health
John R. Bowblis

Drinking and Driving: New Evidence of Behavior and Policy Effects
Christopher Carpenter

Health Effects of Non-Health Policies
Brett O'Hara

Immunization Policy and Practice
Dr. Kerry Anne McGeary

Impact of Health Insurance on Substance Use and Cessation
Daniel Polsky

Impact of Price Transparency on Health Care Decision Making
Sunita Desai

Insights into prices and utilization in the privately insured population
Eric Barrette

Lessons from the Market for Organ Transplants
Andrew E Sfekas

Medicaid Policy Changes under the Affordable Care Act: Effects on Low-Income Individuals and Providers
Stacey McMorrow

Plan Offerings and Consumer Choice in the Health Insurance Marketplaces
Aditi Sen

The economic causes and consequences of prescription drug shortages
Rena Conti

Advances in quantitative methods for policy evaluation and comparative effectiveness research
Richard Grieve

Adverstising, Coverage, and Prescribing Behavior in Medicare Part D
Sarah Miller

Benefits and Costs of Vertical Integration
David H. Howard

Consumer Responses to Price Changes
Dr. Jeannette A. Rogowski

Demand for Prescription Drugs
Alice Chen

Economic Effects of State Health Policies
Amanda Frost

Effects of Provider Payment Reform
Michael E. Chernew

Health and the Economy
Laura Argys

Implications of the Affordable Care Act for Patients and Providers
Kosali Simon

Malaria and Infant and Child Health
Marcella Alsan

Natural Experiments Measuring Physician Productivity
Robert Huckman

Policies, Markets and the Demand for Addictive Goods
Rosalie L. Pacula

Provider Quality: The Interplay between Physicians and Their Organizations
Adam S. Wilk

The Economics of Patient-Centered Medical Homes
Mark Pauly

The Net Cost of Insurance and Health Care Spending Growth
Katherine Hempstead

ASHEcon Awards and Plenary Speaker Douglas Elmendorf: The Influence of Research on Health Care Policy

Dinner Reception at the Philadelphia Armory

Membership Meeting
Anthony LoSasso

Cancer and the Labor Market: International Comparisons and Implications
Cathy J. Bradley

Charity Care and Care by Charities
Guy David

Determinants of Birth Outcomes
Pinka Chatterji

Econometric Methods in Causal Inference and Heterogeneity
Anirban Basu

Economic determinants of diet, nutrition, and obesity II
Heather Royer

Economic evaluations of telemedicine and telehealth in various settings
Byung-Kwang Yoo

Effect of Medicaid on employment, household spending and health outcomes
Yaa Akosa Antwi

Health Plan Choice and Insurance Take-Up in the ACA Health Insurance Marketplaces
Anna Sinaiko

Hospital-Insurer Bilateral Bargaining
Matthew R Grennan

Impact of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansions on Hospital Payer Mix and Uncompensated Care
Sayeh S. Nikpay

Physician Markets
Sean Nicholson

Policies that Influence Alcohol Related Outcomes

Prescription Drug Boxed Warnings: Impact on Firms, Physicians, and Patients
Marta Wosinska

Provider Time Use & Implications for Measuring Productivity
Qing Gong

The Effect of Quality Rating on Surgery Prices, Volume, and Managers’ Compensation: Evidence from Hospital and Nursing Home Markets
Jason M. Hockenberry

Cancer Drugs: Prices and State Policy Responses
Fabrice Smieliauskas

Chronic conditions: Asthma, obesity and depression
Kelly Noonan

Consequences of Quality Reporting
Andrew Friedson

Economics of Long-Term Care Utilization
David C. Grabowski

Eligibility and Coverage: Recent Assessments of Medicaid and Marketplace Insurance
Paul D. Jacobs

Indirect Impacts of the Affordable Care Act: Retirement, Fertility, and Prison Recidivism
Norma B. Coe

Information and Quality Competition
Claudio Lucarelli

Medical Marijuana Laws and Youth and Young Adult Use
Beau Kilmer

New Research on the Fetal Origins Hypothesis
Hani Mansour

Policies to Prevent and Reduce Obesity
Olga Yakusheva

The Cadillac Tax: Projections, Policy Alternatives, and Second-Order Effects
Lucas Higuera

Topics in Mental Health Economics
Diane Alexander

Understanding the Value of Treatments
Emmanuel F Drabo

Welcome Mat Effects of Medicaid Expansions
Jennifer Mellor

Competition in Privitized Medicare
Amanda Starc

Consumer Responses to Complex Contracts
Karen Stockley

Contributed papers in Healthcare Systems and Financing II
Bradley Heim

Formal and Informal Community-Based Long-Term Care
Gilbert Gimm

Health Information Technology
Sunita Desai

Information in Health Care: Health IT, Big Data, and Information Exchange
Seth Freedman

Information, Incentives and Uncertainty in Medical Decisions
David Chan

Maternal Health and Development
Marcella Alsan

Medicaid Managed Care
Deborah A. Freund

Medicare, access to care, and health among the elderly
Brandy J Lipton

New Insights on the Relationship between Substance Use and Schooling
Erik Nesson

Skilled nursing facilities
Peter J. Huckfeldt

Use and Abuse of Opioids
Alice Chen

Wealth, Income and Health
Lara Shore-Sheppard

6th Biennial Conference of the American Society of Health Economists

June 12 - 15, 2016

6th Biennial Conference of the American Society of Health Economists

Sunday, June 12, 2016

1:00 PM-4:30 PM

5:30 PM-7:00 PM

7:00 PM-8:30 PM

Monday, June 13, 2016

7:00 AM-8:15 AM

8:30 AM-10:00 AM

10:15 AM-11:45 AM

12:00 PM-1:00 PM

1:15 PM-2:45 PM

3:00 PM-4:30 PM

4:45 PM-6:15 PM

Tuesday, June 14, 2016

7:00 AM-8:15 AM

8:30 AM-10:00 AM

10:15 AM-11:45 AM

12:00 PM-1:00 PM

1:15 PM-2:45 PM

3:00 PM-4:30 PM

5:00 PM-6:30 PM

6:45 PM-8:45 PM

Wednesday, June 15, 2016

7:00 AM-8:15 AM

8:30 AM-10:00 AM

10:15 AM-11:45 AM

12:00 PM-1:30 PM

American Society of Health Economists (ASHEcon)