NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

FRONTIERS IN HEALTH POLICY RESEARCH CONFERENCE

David M. Cutler and Alan M. Garber, Organizers

June 6, 2003

The Mayflower

A Renaissance Hotel

1127 Connecticut Avenue, NW

Washington, DC 20036

PROGRAM

FRIDAY, JUNE 6:

8:00 AM Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:20 AM Opening Remarks

ALAN M. GARBER, Stanford University and NBER

8:30 AM PATRICIA M. DANZON, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

JONATHAN D. KETCHAM, UC, Berkeley

Reference Pricing of Pharmaceuticals: Evidence from Germany, the

Netherlands and New Zealand

9:30 AM MARK PAULY, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

Adverse Selection and the Challenges to Stand-Alone Prescription

Drug Insurance

10:30 AM Break

11:00 AM WILLIAM H. CROWN, Medstat

ERNST BERNDT, MIT and NBER

KENNETH E. HAVER, Massachusetts General Hospital

JONATHAN MAGUIRE, Medstat

WHITNEY P. WITT, Massachusetts General Hospital for Children

Benefit Plan Design and Prescription Drug Utilization Among Asthmatics:

Do Patient Copayments Matter?

12:00 PM Luncheon

1:00 PM JAY BHATTACHARYA, Stanford University and NBER

DAVID CUTLER, Harvard University and NBER

DANA GOLDMAN, Rand Corporation and NBER

MICHAEL HURD, Rand Corporation

DARIUS LAKDAWALLA, Rand Corporation and NBER

CONSTANJIN PANIS, Rand Corporation

Disability Forecasts and Future Medicare Costs

2:00 PM NANCY BEAULIEU, Harvard University and NBER

Health Plan Conversions: Are They in the Public Interest?

3:00 PM Adjourn 6/2/03