NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Measuring the Clinical and Economic Outcomes Associated with Delivery Systems

U19 Project Launch 

 

David Cutler and Nancy Beaulieu

Monday and Tuesday, November 9 and 10, 2015

NBER

2nd floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA

 

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9:

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

9:00 am

Welcome and Introductions

David M. Cutler, NBER and Harvard University

Project
Roadmaps

(30 minutes presentation + 15 minutes discussion):

 

Presenter is David Cutler unless otherwise noted

 

 

9:15 am

Project 1, Delivery System Structure and Outcomes: A National Look

10:00 am

Project 2, The Delivery System and Outcomes in Four States

10:45 am

Break

11:00 am

Project 3, Characteristics of High Performing Delivery Systems for Cancer

Mary Beth Landrum, Harvard Medical School

11:45 am

Working Lunch:

Project 4, Accelerating the Pediatric Performance of Health Systems

Alyna Chien, Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School

12:30 pm

Project 5, Causes and Consequences of Institutional Consolidation

 

Leemore Dafny, NBER and Northwestern University

1:15 pm

Break

 

 

1:30 pm

Data Core

 

Nancy D. Beaulieu, Harvard Medical School

 

 

2:30 pm

Next Steps

 

 

3:00 pm

Adjourn

 

 

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10:

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

9:00 am

Morning Session:  State Data Discussion

Colorado--CIVHC, Massachusetts--MHQP, Oregon--Q-Corp, Utah--HealthInsight

Nancy D. Beaulieu, Harvard Medical School
Dianne Hasselman, Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement
Elizabeth Mitchell, Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement

Discussion will center on the output and challenges of our preparatory work.

1)  Tables of state-specific HRR-level performance data from Dartmouth Atlas

2)  Calculations of comparable measures for the commercial and Medicaid populations using APCD data

3)  Delivery system mapping (concordant with work in the data core)

4)  Feedback on the delivery system mapping: how it accords with provider data in your APCD and with your institutional knowledge of local markets

5)  Descriptions of specific policy/research topics you would like to investigate in the context of this project

10:15 am

Break

12:00pm

Lunch

12:45 pm

Afternoon Session:  Data Core Issues and Coordination –HRET, HMS, NBER

Nancy D. Beaulieu, Harvard Medical School
Stephen Hines,
Health Research & Educational Trust
Greg Foster, Health Research & Educational Trust

2:00 pm

Break

 

 

3:30

Next Steps

 

 

3:45

Adjourn