FRIDAY, MAY 7:

8:00 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue.

8:15 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue.

8:30 AM Continental Breakfast

9:00 AM PAUL GERTLER, UC, Berkeley and NBER

TIM SIMCOE, UC, Berkeley

Disease Management: Exploiting Standards and Information

Technology to Improve Health-care Productivity

10:00 AM MARK DUGGAN and WILLIAM EVANS, University of Maryland and NBER

Lifetime Medical Costs of Treating HIV Patients on Medicaid

11:00 AM Break

11:30 AM JAY BHATTACHARYA, Stanford University and NBER

DARIUS LAKDAWALLA, Rand Corporation and NBER

Time-Inconsistency and Welfare

12:30 PM Lunch

1:30 PM FRANK LICHTENBERG,Columbia University and NBER

The Expanding Pharmaceutical Arsenal in the War on Cancer

2:30 PM WILLIAM DOW, University of North Carolina and NBER

MICHAEL HURD, Rand Corporation and NBER

Medicare as Valued by Recipients

3:30 PM Adjourn

3/15/04