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AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting

June 11-14, 2011—Washington State Convention Center—Seattle, WA

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

Topic

Presenter/Author(s)


Saturday, June 11    
10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Child Health Services Research Interest Group Meeting: New Data on Enrolling and Retaining Children in Public Insurance Programs: Evidence to Inform Implementation of the Affordable Care Act  
  Presentation: Understanding Public Coverage Trends and States' Capacity to Implement Health Reform Christopher Trenholm
11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. State Health Research and Policy Interest Group Meeting: What Can State Data Sources Tell Us? Deborah Chollet, Panelist
2:10-3:20 p.m. Disability Research Interest Group Meeting: Invited Paper Panel  
  Presentation: Impact of Early Intervention Programs for Working Adults with Mental Health Conditions Gilbert Gimm
3:15-4:00 p.m. Health Economics Interest Group Meeting: Peer and Environmental Effects on Weight Gain: Evidence from Randomized Roommate and Dormitory Assignments Catherine McLaughlin, Moderator
3:30-5:00 p.m. Disability Research Interest Group Meeting: Data, Methods, and Findings as Resources for Policy on Health Care of People with Disabilities Craig Thornton, Moderator
  Presentation: A Fledgling National Disability Data System: Linked Administrative Records from SSA and CMS Craig Thornton
3:00-7:00 p.m. Quality Interest Group Meeting Myles Maxfield, Chair
Sunday, June 12    
9:00-10:30 a.m. Session: Issues in Medicare Payment Policy  
  Presentation: Paying More for Primary Care Cognitive Services May Help Bend the Medicare Cost Curve James Reschovsky, Arkadipta Ghosh, Kate Stewart, and Deborah Chollet
  Presentation: How Do Changes in Medicare Hospital Payment Rates Affect the Volume of Services? Chapin White
11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Session: Dollars and Sense: Assessing Effectiveness of
Interventions and Incentives for Reducing Health Care Costs for
People with Chronic Illness
Randall Brown, Chair
  Presentation: Operational Responses of Small- to Medium-Sized Primary Care Practices to Financial Incentives for Prevention and Treatment
of Chronic Illness
Suzanne Felt-Lisk
11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Session: Addressing Cost and Affordability in Public Programs: Implications for the Affordable Care Act  
  Presentation: Risk Selection in Massachusetts' CommonwealthCare Program: Lessons for Program Design Deborah Chollet and Allison Barrett
2:30-4:00 p.m. Poster Session A  
  Poster: The Effect of a Major Coverage Expansion on Physician Work Hours: Evidence from the Children's Health Insurance Program Chapin White
  Poster: Opposite Pathways to the Same End: Linking Interorganizational Partnership Processes to Outcomes Using Social Network Analysis Valerie Cheh
4:30-6:00 p.m. Session: Examining Patterns and Trends in Medicare Use and Spending Chapin White, Chair
  Presentation: How Do Geographic Variations in Medicare Vary by Type of
Service? Implications for Medicare Policy (Best Abstract)
Arkadipta Ghosh, James Reschovsky, Kate Stewart, and Deborah Chollet
4:30-6:00 p.m. Roundtable: Identifying, Monitoring, and Evaluating Promising Payment and Delivery System Innovations Randall Brown and Marsha Gold, Panelists
Monday, June 13    
8:00-9:30 a.m. Session: The Impact of Market Consolidation on Cost of Health Care Paul Ginsburg, Chair
  Methods Workshop: Using Creative Orthogonal Designs to Conduct Comparative Effectiveness Research Randall Brown, Chair
Jelena Zurovac
8:00-9:30 a.m. Session: The Role of the Patient-Centered Medical Home for Special Populations Erin Fries Taylor, Chair
  Presentation: Integrating Mental Health Treatment into the Patient-Centered Medical Home Thomas Croghan
  Presentation: Challenges of Coordinating Care for Disabled Adults, Frail Elderly, and Dying Patients within the Context of the PCMH Debra Lipson
  Presentation: Understanding the Healthy San Francisco Medical Home and the Populations It Serves Erin Fries Taylor
9:45-11:15 a.m. Poster Session B  
  Poster: CMS' New Measures of Hospital-Acquired Conditions: Correlations Among Measures and Between Periods Mai Hubbard
  Poster: A Window into Current Care Management and Future Plans of 53 Small- to Medium-Sized Primary Care Practices Christopher Fleming
  Poster: Systematic Literature Review of Care Coordination Programs for Community-Dwelling Disabled Populations: Illuminating the "Black Box" Melanie Au
11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Roundtable: Future of the Safety Net in a Reform Environment Peter Cunningham, Panelist
11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Session: Impact of Medicare Part D on Drug Utilization, Health Outcomes, and Medical Spending Boyd Gilman, Chair
  Presentation: Impact of Medicare Part D on Medical Spending: Evidence from a Natural Experiment of Low-Income Beneficiaries Boyd Gilman
3:00-4:30 p.m. Session: Moving Past Insurance and Cost Barriers: The Next Hurdles to Access to Care  
  Presentation: Non-Affordability Barriers and Access to Care for U.S. Adults Catherine McLaughlin, Coauthor
6:30-8:00 p.m. Poster Session C  
  Poster: Making Accountable Care Organizations Real: Lessons from the Field Kate Stewart
  Poster: Medicare Home Health Care and Severely Disabled Beneficiaries: Explaining the Low Impact of an Experiment Relaxing the "Homebound" Requirement Valerie Cheh