Come see us at the American Society of Health Economists conference

If you’re attending the ASHEcon conference I hope you will come see my colleagues and me at the sessions below. These all include members of the Partnered Evidence-based Policy Resource Center (PEPReC) at the VA Boston Healthcare System and/or the Department of Health Law, Policy & Management (HLPM) at the Boston University School of Public Health. Those individuals are in bold, below.*

Monday June 24

9:30 – 10:45

Applications of Nonlinear Modeling Techniques: Econometrics and Machine Learning

Chair: Partha Deb

Location: Madison A

(9:30)

• Moneyball in Medicare: New Insights

Presenter: Edward Norton

Co-Authors: Emily Lawton; Jun Li; Lena Chen

Discussant: Elena Prager

(10:00)

• Using Machine Learning to Estimate the Heterogeneous Impacts of Medicaid Managed Care

Presenter: Augustine Denteh

Co-Author: Sherri Rose

Discussant: Kevin N. Griffith

(10:30)

• Forecasting Health Care Spending: A Comparison of Nonlinear Econometric and Machine Learning Methods

Presenter: Partha Deb

Discussant: Naomi B. Zewde

1:15 – 2:45

Access To Mental Health Services Among Minority and Severely Ill Patients

Chair: Vicki Fung

Location: Jefferson

(1:15)

• State policies permitting the denial of services to same-sex couple and sexual minority mental distress

Presenter: Julia Raifman, BU

Co-Authors: Ellen Moscoe; S. Bryn Austin; Mark Hatzenbuehler; Sandro Galea

Discussant: Elham Mahmoudi

(1:45)

• Do Gender Minority Medicare Beneficiaries with Depression Receive Adequate Mental Health Care?

Presenter: Ana Progovac

Co-Authors:  Brian Mullin; Laura Hatfield; Alex McDowell; Mark A. Schuster; Benjamin Le Cook

Discussant: Neil Kamdar

(2:15)

• The Impact of Medicare Mental Health Cost-Sharing Parity on Outpatient Care for Beneficiaries with Serious Mental Illness

Presenter: Vicki Fung

Co-Authors: Mary Price; John Hsu; Benjamin Le Cook

Discussant: Ana M. Progovac

1:15 – 2:45

Health Insurance, Adolescents and Young Adults

Chair: Austin Frakt

Location: Hoover

(1:15)

• Parental Coverage and Insurance Use Behavior of Young Women for Sexual and Reproductive Health Services in Massachusetts

Presenter: Jacqueline Ellison, BU

Co-Authors: Megan Cole, BU; Lewis Kazis; Amresh Hanchate

Discussant: Christine Yee

(1:45)

• Did the ACA Improve Rates of Well Child and Depression Screening Visits for Commercially Insured Adolescents?

Presenter: Carolina-Nicole Herrera, BU

Discussant: Kandice Kapinos

(2:15)

• Changes in Insurance Coverage and Access to Care for Young Adults in 2017

Presenter: Kevin Griffith

Co-Authors: Benjamin Sommers; David Jones

Discussant: Sarah Miller

1:15 – 2:45

Incentives, Integration and Efficiency

Chair: Joshua Rolnick

Location: Madison A

(1:15)

• Are Medicare Advantage plans more or less effective at reducing hospital readmissions for patients with multiple chronic conditions?

Presenter: Jayasree Basu

Co-Author:  Paul Jacobs

Discussant: Keaton Miller

(1:45)

• The Impact of ACO Physician-Hospital Integration on Healthcare Spending and Utilization

Presenter: Meng-Yun Lin

Co-Authors: Amresh Hanchate, Austin Frakt, Kathleen Carey, BU

(2:15)

• Longer-Term Effects of Bundled Payments for Medical Conditions on Spending and Utilization: A Difference-In-Difference Analysis of the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Initiative

Presenter: Joshua Rolnick

Co-Authors:  Joshua Liao; Xinshuo Ma; Eric Shan; Jingsan Zhu; Erkuan Wang; Qian Huang; Amol Navathe

Discussant: Michael Barnett 

Tuesday June 25

10:00 – 11:30

Private Plans in Medicare and Disadvantaged Populations

Chair: Zirui Song

Location: Jefferson

(10:00)

• Home Health Care Use in Medicare Advantage Compared to Traditional Medicare: The Role of Benefit Design

Presenter: Laura Skopec

Co-Authors: Stephen Zuckerman; Doug Wissoker; Peter Huckfeldt; Joshua Aarons; Robert Berenson; Judy Feder; Judy Dey

Discussant: Austin Frakt

(10:30)

• Aligning Medicare and Medicaid Benefits in Tennessee

Presenter: Laura Keohane

Co-Authors:  Zilu Zhou; David Stevenson

Discussant: Courtney H. Van Houtven

(11:00)

• Medicare Advantage Dual-Eligible Special Needs Plans: An Examination of Beneficiary Characteristics and Enrollment Decisions

Presenter: Brian McGarry

Co-Authors:  Timothy Layton; Zirui Song; David Grabowski

Discussant: Daria M. Pelech

10:00 – 11:30

Treatment Effects & Heterogeneity

Chair: Steve Pizer

Madison A

(10:00)

• Practical Considerations for Estimating Treatment Effects with Machine Learning

Presenter: Kenneth John McConnell

Co-Author: Stephan Lindner

Discussant: Eric Roberts

(10:30)

• Vector-Based Kernel Weighting: A Simple Estimator for Improving Precision and Bias of Average Treatment Effects in Multiple Treatment Settings

Presenter: Jessica Lum

Co-Authors: Steven Pizer, Austin Frakt, Melissa Garrido

Discussant: Partha Deb

(11:00)

• A Sequence of Two Studies to Learn & Test Heterogeneous Treatment Sub-groups: Effects of Cost Exposure on Use of Outpatient Care

Presenter: Amelia Haviland

Co-Authors: Rahul Ladhania; Neeraj Sood; Ateev Mehrotra

Discussant: Jeffrey S. McCullough

1:30 – 3:00

Effects of Policy Reforms and Access to Care on Rates of Suicide

Chair: Timothy Classen

Location: Jefferson

(1:30)

• Age 21 handgun purchase policies & adolescent suicide fatalities

Presenter: Julia Raifman, BU

Co-Authors: Elysia Larson; Michael Siegel; Michael Ulrich; Colleen Barry; Anita Knopov; Sandro Galea

Discussant: Timothy Classen

Location: Jefferson

(2:00)

• Association Between Changes in Community Mental Health Services Availability and Suicide Mortality in the US

Presenter: Peiyin Hung

Co-Authors: Susan Busch; Shiyi Wang

Discussant: Julia Raifman, BU

(2:30)

• The ACA Dependent Coverage Expansion of 2010 and Rates of Suicide Among Young Adults

Presenter: Timothy Classen

Discussant: Peiyin Hung

1:30 – 3:00

The Effects of Care Coordination and Vertical Integration on Patient Outcomes

Chair: Lacey Loomer

Location: Madison A

(1:30)

• Identification and Evaluation of Informal Inter-Organizational Ties between Hospitals and Skilled Nursing Facilities

Presenter: Cyrus Kosar

Co-Authors:  David Meyers; Vincent Mor; Momotazur Rahman

Discussant: Jia Yu

(2:00)

• The Comparative Advantage of Accountable Care Organizations in Structuring Post-Acute Care for Medicare Beneficiaries

Author(s): Derek Lake; David C. Grabowski; Pedro Gozalo

Discussant: Brian E. McGarry

(2:30)

• Evaluating the Impact of Payer and Provider Integration on Medicare Advantage Enrollee Hospitalization and Enrollment Outcomes

Presenter: David Meyers

Co-Authors: Vincent Mor; Momotazur Rahman

Discussant: Steven Pizer

1:30 – 3:00

Indirect Effects of Insurance Design

Chair: Thomas Buchmueller

Location: Hoover

(1:30)

• Health insurance mandates and traffic fatalities: The effects of substance use disorder parity laws

Presenter: Catherine Maclean

Co-Authors: Ioana Popovici; Michael T. French

Discussant: Otto Lenhart

(2:00)

• Consumption Effects of Health Insurance Expansions: Evidence from Scanner Data

Presenter: Aparna Soni

Discussant: Xiaoxue Li

(2:30)

• Sources of Inertia in Health Plan Choice in the Individual Health Insurance Market

Presenter: Coleman Drake

Co-Authors: Conor Ryan; Bryan Dowd

Discussant: Paul Shafer, BU

5:15 – 7:00 Posters

Location: Exhibit Hall C (lower level)

Changes in Coverage, Access to Care, and Disparities in 2017

Presenter: Kevin Griffith

Co-Authors: Benjamin Sommers; David Jones

(Posters cont.)

Do High Deductibles Reduce the Use of ‘Free’ Preventive Services Under the Affordable Care Act?

Presenter: Paul Shafer, BU

Co-Authors: Stacie Dusetzina; Lindsay Sabik; Timothy Platts-Mills; Sally Stearns; Justin Trogdon

Wednesday June 26

8:00 – 9:30

Topics in Health Care Financing and Incentives

Chair: Jean M Fuglesten Biniek

Location: Madison A

(8:00)

• Use of Integrated Health Record Viewer Reduces Duplicate Imaging

Presenter: Yingzhe Yuan

Co-Authors: Megan E. Price; David F. Schmidt, MD; Merry Ward, PhD; Jonathan R. Nebeker, MD; Steven Pizer

Discussant: Jeffrey S. McCullough

(8:30)

• Sources of Geographic Variation in Health Care Spending and Utilization Among Individuals with Employer Sponsored Insurance

Presenter: Jean Fuglesten Biniek

Co-Author:  William Johnson

Discussant: Sayeh S. Nikpay

(9:00)

• The Incidence of Hospital Drug Price Subsidies: 340B, Drug Utilization, and Subsidized Medical Care

Presenter: Sayeh Nikpay

Co-Authors:  Rena Conti; Melinda Buntin

Discussant: David Cutler

8:00 – 9:30

Physician Productivity and Quality of Care

Chair: Steven Pizer

Location: Taylor

(8:00)

• The Trade-off between Productivity and Quality of Care in Primary Care Services

Presenter: Taeko Minegishi

Discussant: John Romley

(8:30)

• Clinician Productivity & Veterans’ Access to Specialty Care

Presenter: Christine Yee

Discussant: Austin Frakt

(9:00)

• Physician Turnover and Productivity in the Veterans Health Administration

Presenter: Aigerim Kabdiyeva

Discussant:  Michael R. Richards

8:00 – 9:30

Recent Empirical Evidence on the Affordable Care Act (ACA): Coverage and Payment

Chair: Zhiyou Yang

Location: McKinley

(8:00)

• Potential Unintended Consequences of the New Stratified Methodology by Dual Proportion Under the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP)

Presenter: Zhiyou Yang

Co-Authors: Peter Huckfeldt; Neeraj Sood; Jose Escarce; Teryl Nuckols; Ioana Popescu

Discussant: Eric Roberts

(8:30)

• The Impact of Medicaid Expansion on Continuous Enrollment: A Two-State Analysis of All Payer Claims Data

Presenter: Sarah Gordon, BU

Co-Authors: Benjamin Sommers; Ira Wilson, MD; Omar Galarraga; Amal Trivedi

Discussant: Jacob Wallace

(9:00)

• Spillovers of Medicare’s Mandatory Bundled Payment for Joint Replacement into Other Patients

Presenter: Andrew Wilcock

Co-Authors: Michael Barnett; J. McWilliams; David Grabowski; Ateev Mehrotra

Discussant: Neeraj Sood

10:00 – 11:30

Evaluation of Behavioral Health Integration Initiatives and Measures

Chair: Megan B. Cole, BU

Location: Jefferson

(10:00)

• Effects of a Community-Based Care Management Program on Utilization and Spending Among High-Utilizers

Presenter: Xinqi Li

Co-Author: Omar Galarraga

Discussant: Kimberley Geissler

(10:30)

• Evaluating Mental Health Follow-Up Care After Emergency Department Visits for Mental Illness

Presenter: Kimberley Geissler

Discussant: Michael Flores

(11:00)

• Integrating Behavioral Health into the Pediatric Medical Home for Low-Income Children: Impact on Utilization and Cost of Care

Presenter: Megan Cole, BU

Co-Authors: Qiuyuan Qin; Megan Bair-Merritt

Discussant: Xinqi Li

* If I’ve overlooked anyone please bring it to my attention and I will update.

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