NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

Ninth Annual Frontiers in Health Policy Research Meeting

and

Health Care Program Meeting

November 4, 2005

David Cutler and Alan Garber, Organizers

NBER

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

3^rd Floor Conference Room

Cambridge, Massachusetts

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4:

8:00 am Shuttle Van Departs The Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue

8:15 am Continental Breakfast

8:45 am NANCY BEAULIEU and DAVID CUTLER, Harvard University and NBER

KATHERINE HO, Columbia University and NBER

The Business Case for Diabetes Disease Management at

Two Managed Care Organizations

9:40 am Break

9:55 am MARK PAULY, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

Who Pays: the Incidence of Higher Malpractice Premiums

(Joint with CHRISTY THOMPSON, THOMAS ABBOTT, JAMES MARGOLIS and

WILLIAM SAGE)

10:45 am YU-CHU SHEN, Naval Postgraduate School and NBER

GLENN MELNICK, University of Southern California

Is Managed Care Still an Effective Cost Containment Device?

11:40 am Lunch

12:10 pm DANA GOLDMAN, RAND Corporation and NBER

PINAR KARACA-MANDIC and GEOFFREY JOYCE, RAND Corporation

NEERAJ SOOD, RAND Corporation and NBER

Adverse Selection in Retiree Prescription Drug Plans

1:05 pm ERNST BERNDT, MIT and NBER

ALISA BUSCH, Harvard University

RICHARD FRANK, Harvard University and NBER

SHARON-LISE NORMAND, Harvard University

Real Output in Mental Health Care During the 1990s

2:00 pm Adjourn

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