The Health Policy Forum at Rice University’s Baker Institute hosted the 25th Annual Health Economics Conference (AHEC) on Oct. 16-17, 2014.
To watch the video and view the speakers' slides from the plenary session, scroll down to the bottom of the page.
Agenda
Click here to view the full agenda for the 2014 conference.
Thursday, October 16
8:15 am |
Breakfast |
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9:15 am |
Welcome and Introduction Vivian Ho, Ph.D., James A. Baker III Institute Chair in Health Economics, and Director, Health Policy Forum, Baker Institute |
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9:30 am |
Session 1: Medicare ReformModerator: Vivian Ho (Baker Institute) "Does Privatized Health Insurance Benefit Patients or Producers? Evidence From Medicare Advantage" "The Impact of Consumer Inattention on Insurer Pricing in the Medicare Part D Program" "Upcoding or Selection? Evidence from Medicare on Squishy Risk Adjustment" |
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12:20 pm |
Lunch |
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1:30 pm |
Session 2: Improving Health OutcomesModerator: Aimee Chin (University of Houston) "Can Walmart Make Us Healthier? The Effect of Market Forces on Health Care Utilization" "The Long-Term Effect of Health Insurance on Near-Elderly Health and Mortality" "Physicians versus Midwives: Returns to Childbirth Technologies for Low-Risk Births" |
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4:20 pm |
Session 3: Health InsuranceModerator: Laura Dague (Texas A&M University) "Moral Hazard in Health Insurance Expansions: Liquidity or Distortion?" |
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6:30 pm |
Dinner Remarks by Chuck Phelps, Founding Member, AHEC |
Friday, October 17
8:00 am |
Breakfast |
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8:30 am |
Session 3: Health Insurance (cont.)Moderator: Laura Dague (Texas A&M University) "The Effect of High-Deductible Health Plans on Consumer Health Spending" "The Effect of Health Insurance Subsidy on Mortality for Low-Income Individuals" |
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10:30 am |
Session 4: Moral Hazard and Price TransparencyModerator: Ellerie Weber (University of Texas School of Public Health) "Moral Hazard in Search: Evidence from the Market for Health Care" |
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11:20 am |
Lunch and Plenary "The Past and Future of Health Economics Research" |
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1:00 pm |
Session 4: Moral Hazard and Price Transparency (cont.)"Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection in Private Health Insurance" "The Effects of Price Transparency Regulation on Prices in the Healthcare Industry" |
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2:45 pm |
Concluding Remarks Vivian Ho (Baker Institute) |
Call for Papers
- View slides from the presentation by Karen Davis, Eugene and Mildred Lipitz Professor and director, Roger C. Lipitz Center for Integrated Health Care Department, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
- View slides from the presentation by Amitabh Chandra, professor, Harvard Kennedy School of Government