NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Frontiers in Health Policy Research

Alan Garber, Organizer

June 7, 2001

The Hyatt Regency Bethesda

One Metro Center

Bethesda, MD 20814

PROGRAM

THURSDAY, JUNE 7:

9:00 AM Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:20 AM Opening Remarks

ALAN GARBER, Stanford University and NBER

9:30 AM JEANETTE CHUNG, University of Chicago

DAVID MELTZER, University of Chicago and NBER

Effects of Competition under Prospective Payment on Hospital Costs among High and Low Cost Admissions: Evidence from California, 1983-1993

JOHN CAWLEY, University of Michigan

MICHAEL CHERNEW, University of Michigan and NBER

CATHERINE MCLAUGHLIN, University of Michigan

HMO Participation in Medicare Managed Care

11:00 AM Break

11:30 AM FRANK LICHTENBERG, Columbia University and NBER

The Effect of Medicare on Health Care Utilization and Outcomes

12:15 PM Reception and Luncheon

2:00 PM MARK PAULY, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

Cutting Taxes For Insuring: Options and Effects of

Tax Credits for Health Insurance

and

Expanding Coverage Via Tax Credits: Trade-Offs and Outcomes

FRANK A. SLOAN, Duke University and NBER

Hospital Ownership Conversion:

Defining the Appropriate Public Oversight Role

3:30 PM Adjourn

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