Out and About

AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting

Chicago, IL—June 27- July 1, 2009

This page lists Mathematica Policy Research and Center for Studying Health System Change staff. For a full listing of all presenters, go to the AcademyHealth website.

Date/Time

Sessions, Presentations, and Posters

Presenter/Author(s)

Saturday, June 27

Child Health Services Research Interest Group Meeting

Session: Building on the Opportunities Presented by CHIP Reauthorization

Christopher Trenholm, Speaker

Saturday, June 27

Health Economics Interest Group Meeting

"Medicare Fees and the Volume of Physicians' Services"

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Jim Reschovsky

Sunday, June 28

Meet the Experts Student Breakfast

Paul Ginsburg

Opening Plenary: Welcoming Remarks

Catherine McLaughlin, Conference Chair

Alice S. Hersh New Investigator Awards

Hoangmai Pham, Awardee
Paul Ginsburg, Presenter

Session: Pathways to the Use of Health Services Research in Policy

Marsha Gold, Chair
Paul Ginsburg, Panelist

"Pathways to Using Health Services Research (HSR) in Policymaking: Lessons for Getting Beyond the Black Box"

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Marsha Gold

Session: Investigating the Causes of Medicare Spending Growth

"Medicare Fees and the Volume of Physicians' Services"

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Jim Reschovsky

Poster Session A and Lunch

"Health Insurer-Sponsored Personal Health Records: Potential Benefits and Limitations to Patients and Physicians"

Joy Grossman

Session: Cutting Medicare Spending Growth: Examining New Approaches

"Medicare Advantage (MA): Within a Strengthened Medicare Program"

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Marsha Gold

Session: Economic Determinants and Consequences of Health Insurance Coverage

"Family Financial Pressures from Medical Bills: Implications for Defining Affordability Standards in Health Reform"

Peter Cunningham

Session: Issues in Community and Institutional Long-Term Care

"The Use of Medicaid Claims Data to Describe Patterns of Antipsychotic Prescribing in U.S. Nursing Homes"

Samuel Simon, James Verdier, and Christal Stone

Session: Drilling Down: Applied Informatics and Health Information Technology

"Factors Influencing EHR Use in Small Physician Practices: Case Studies in Four States"

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Sue Felt-Lisk, Christopher Fleming, Brenda Natzke, and Rachel Shapiro

Session: Medicare Private Plans: Whose Advantage?

"Medicare Advantage (MA): Current Status and Future Role"

Marsha Gold

Monday, June 29

Poster Session B and Continental Breakfast

"A Viable Alternative to Private Medicaid Managed Care Models: Performance of the Oklahoma Primary Care Case Management Program in Controlling Preventable Hospitalizations"

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Margaret Colby, Samuel Simon, and James Verdier

"Promising Therapies, Prohibitive Costs: A Qualitative Assessment of the Effects of the Medicare Part D Doughnut Hole on Access to Costly Cancer Medications"

Leslie Jackson Conwell and Dominick Esposito

"Common Characteristics of High-Impact Investigator-Initiated Research"

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Tim Lake, Kate Stewart, Tara Krissik, and Marsha Gold

"AHRQ-Funded Investigator-Initiated Research on Health Care Costs, Productivity, Organization, and Market Forces: Goals, Dissemination Strategies, and Impacts"

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Kate Stewart, Tim Lake, and Marsha Gold

Session: Medicare Part D

"Crossing the Doughnut Hole: The Effects of the Medicare Drug Coverage Gap for Patients Who Require High-Cost Medications"

Margaret Colby and Dominick Esposito

Session: Impact of Public Reporting on Quality of Care

Hoangmai Pham, Chair

Session: Consumer Use of Information to Make Health Care Decisions

"Informational Messages and Improved Decisions: The Case of Seniors' Choice of Medicare Drug Plans"

Marian Wrobel

Session: Health Reform in the New Administration

Catherine McLaughlin, Chair

"Medicare Advantage Benefit Design and Beneficiary Choice"

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Marsha Gold

Session: Changes and Challenges in Primary Care

"Involvement of Primary Care Physicians in Inpatient Care and Risk of Hospital Readmission"

Hoangmai Pham

Session: Lessons for Health Reform from the Military Health System

Thomas Croghan, Chair

"Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities in TRICARE"

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Ann Bagchi

"Looking Behind the Numbers: A Qualitative Exploration of Patient Experiences Within the Military Health System"

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Kristen Purcell

"Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Children's Health Care in the Military Health System"

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Kate Stewart

Session: Disparities: Interventions

"What Are Physicians Doing to Address Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care?"

Jim Reschovsky

Session: Addressing Disparities Through Public Health System Research and Adaptations to Public Health Practice

"Healthy People (HP) 2010 Disparity Elimination Goals: Case Studies of State Efforts"

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Marsha Gold

Session: How Activated Are Consumers and What Does This Mean for Their Health and Health Care

"Racial and Ethnic Differences in Patient Activation"

Peter Cunningham

Session: Unstable Ground? Comparing Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Estimates from Major National Surveys

"Income and Poverty in 2002: The View from Five Surveys"

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John Czajka

Session: Medicaid Costs: Searching for Silver Bullets

"An Assessment of the Impact of an Educational Pharmacy Management Intervention on Prescribers to Medicaid Beneficiaries"

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Dominick Esposito and James Verdier

Poster Session C and Reception

"Emerging Federal and State Activities on the Collection of Data to Measure Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities"

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Patricia Collins Higgins and Erin Fries Taylor

"Emerging State Activities on Language Access Services in Health Care"

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Melanie Au, Erin Fries Taylor, and Marsha Gold

"Availability of Data to Measure Disparities in Leading Health Indicators at the State and Local Level"

Allison Hedley Dodd and Marsha Gold

Tuesday, June 30

Session: Physician Resource Use Management in Medicare

"What Physicians Think About Resource Use Reports"

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Sunyna S. Williams, Margaret Gerteis, Mary Laschober, and Myles Maxfield

Disability Research Interest Group Meeting

"Disease Management and Coordination of Care in Medicare Projects: A Meta-Analysis"

Deborah Peikes

"Lessons from the Medicare Coordinated Care Demonstration and Other Studies on Coordinating Care for People with Disabilities"

Deborah Peikes and Randall Brown

Wednesday, July 1

Public Health Systems Research Methods Meeting

Session: Relevant Questions & Data Challenges

"Best Practices in Public Health Systems Research: Resources and Gaps in Administrative Data to Identify Relevant Population Health Outcomes"

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Marsha Gold

Ecole Libre Des Hautes Etudes

Session: Issues in the Coordination of Services and Supports for Persons with Complex Needs in the Community

Deborah Peikes, Discussion Leader