SI 2015 Health Care
Organized by Jon_Gruber, Jonathan Gruber, David A. Wise, Emily Wiessner, and Joan Stillwell
July 23-24, 2015
Sonesta

Thursday, July 23

9:00 am

Prescription Drug Advertising and Drug Utilization: The Role of Medicare Part D

Abby Alpert, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Darius N. Lakdawalla, University of Southern California and NBER
Neeraj Sood, University of Southern California and NBER

10:00 am

Risk Adjustment and Low Income Subsidy Distortions in Medicare Part D

Daniel Miller, Clemson University

11:30 am

Plan Switching and Inertia in Medicare Part D: Evidence from Administrative Data

Florian Heiss, University of Duesseldorf
Daniel L. McFadden, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Joachim Winter, University of Munich
Amelie C. Wuppermann Bo Zhou, Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics

1:30 pm

Insurer Competition in Health Care Markets

Kate Ho, Princeton University
Robin S. Lee, Harvard University and NBER

2:30 pm

Assessing Incentives for Adverse Selection in Health Plan Payment Systems

Timothy J. Layton, University of Virginia and NBER
Randall P. Ellis, Boston University
Thomas McGuire, Harvard University and NBER

4:00 pm

Hospitals as Insurers of Last Resort

Craig Garthwaite, Northwestern University and NBER
Tal Gross, Boston University and NBER
Matthew J. Notowidigdo, University of Chicago and NBER

Friday, July 24

9:00 am

Saving Lives or Saving Money? Understanding the Dual Nature of Physician Preferences

Alice Chen, University of Southern California
Darius N. Lakdawalla, University of Southern California and NBER

10:00 am

Physician Concentration and Negotiated Prices: Evidence from State Law Changes

Naomi Hausman, Hebrew University
Kurt J. Lavetti, The Ohio State University and NBER

11:30 am

Hospital Network Competition and Adverse Selection: Evidence from the Massachusetts Health Insurance Exchange

Mark Shepard, Harvard University and NBER

1:30 pm

Medicaid as an Investment in Children: What is the Long-Term Impact on Tax Receipts?

David W. Brown, U.S. Department of the Treasury
Amanda E. Kowalski, University of Michigan and NBER
Ithai Lurie, U.S. Department of the Treasury

2:30 pm

Childhood Medicaid Coverage and Later Life Health Care Utilization

Laura R. Wherry, New York University and NBER
Sarah Miller, University of Michigan and NBER
Robert Kaestner, University of Chicago and NBER
Bruce D. Meyer, University of Chicago and NBER

4:00 pm