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AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting

Orlando, FL—June 3-5, 2007

This page lists only Mathematica and the Center for Studying Health System Change staff. For a full listing of all presenters, go to the AcademyHealth website.

Date/Time   Topic   Presenter/Author(s)
Sunday, June 3        
11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.   "MMA Effects on Medicare Advantage Availability, Benefits, and Enrollment 2005-2007"
PowerPoint | PDF of Slides
  Marsha Gold
3:00-4:30 p.m.   Ten+ Years of Tracking Health System Change: What Does It Tell Us About the Potential for Markets in Health Care?   Paul Ginsburg, Chair
    Impact of Coverage on Utilization   Deborah Chollet, Chair
Monday, June 4        
9:00-10:30 a.m.   "Quality Improvement Research Methods: Issues in Detecting Change in Physician Performance"
PowerPoint
  Hoangmai Pham, Panelist
    "Aggressiveness of Imaging for Acute Low Back Pain in Elderly Patients"
PowerPoint
  Hoangmai Pham
11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.   "Measuring Trends in Racial/Ethnic Health Care Disparities"   Benjamin Cook
    Implementation Issues in Medicare's Physician Voluntary Reporting Program (PVRP)
PowerPoint | PDF of Slides
PowerPoint | PDF of Slides
  Myles Maxfield, Chair
    "Operational Insights from Early Physician Practice Adopters in the PVRP Program"
PowerPoint | PDF of Slides
  Timothy Lake
    "Creating a PVRP Data Validation Strategy that Also Supports Program Improvement"   Mary Laschober
    "Practice Workflows, Reporting Time, and Implementation Experiences Associated with PVRP"
PowerPoint | PDF of Slides
  Angela Merrill and Lorenzo Moreno
    "Performance Measurement and P4P Considerations for Providers Treating Vulnerable Patients"
PowerPoint | PDF of Slides
  Hoangmai Pham
         
12:45-2:15 p.m.  
Presentation of Awards
   
    "Hunt for the Right Counterfactual: Estimating Disparities in Minority Health Care"   Benjamin Cook, Dissertation Awardee
2:30-4:00 p.m.   "Does Disease Management/Care Coordination Work for Medicare?"
PowerPoint
  Randall Brown
    "Identification of Usual Source of Care Provider for Medicare Beneficiaries: Development of a Claims-Based Approach"
PowerPoint | PDF of Slides
  Samuel Simon
4:30-6:00 p.m.   "Do Referral Patterns Differ When Physicians Own the Hospital? Evidence from Texas"
PowerPoint | PDF of Slides
  Su Liu, Cheryl Fahlman, and Deborah Chollet
    "Clinical Information Technology Varies Across Subspecialties"
PowerPoint
  Catherine Corey
Tuesday, June 5        
1:00-2:30 p.m.   "Adherence to Medications for the Treatment of Congestive Heart Failure and Its Effect on Medicaid Expenditures"
PowerPoint | PDF of Slides
  Ann Bagchi, Dominick Esposito, and Jim Verdier
         
 
Interest Group Meetings
   
         
   
State Health Research and Policy
   
Saturday, June 2      
11:30 a.m-12:45 p.m.   "Using a Mixed Methods Evaluation to Assess Health Care Reform in Progress: The Maine Experience"   Debra Lipson, Jim Verdier, Lynn Taylor, Shanna Shulman, and Elizabeth Seif
         
   
Disability Research
   
Tuesday, June 5      
5:00-6:05 p.m.   State of the Art in Disability Health Services Research: Healthy People 2010/2020 and Institute of Medicine   Craig Thornton, Moderator
    "Relevance of the IOM Report and the Healthy People Series to Health Services Research in Disability"   Craig Thornton
       
   
Poster Sessions
   
Sunday, June 3        
12:45-2:45 p.m.  
"Comparative Effectiveness of Alternative SSRI Treatments"
  Dominick Esposito and Tom Croghan
    "Trends in Medicaid Pharmacy Benefits: 1999-2002"   Dominick Esposito, Ann Bagchi, and Jim Verdier
    "Estimating the Cost of Interpreter Services to State Medicaid Programs"   Ann Bagchi
    "Addressing Disparities in Maternal and Child Health Through Interconceptional Care"   Margo Rosenbach
    "Partnerships for Quality: Lessons in Translating Research into Practice"   Debra Lipson, Marsha Gold, and Melanie Au
    "The Financial Impact of Niche Hospitals on General Hospitals"   Gilbert Gimm
Monday, June 4        
6:15-8:15 p.m.   "Feasibility of Using Personal Health Records to Address Disparities in Health Care"   Lorenzo Moreno, Ann Bagchi, Raquel af Ursin, and Stephanie Peterson
    "Citizenship Status and Limited English Proficiency: Implications for Health and Health Care Policy"   Ann Bagchi
    "Provider Burden as a Barrier to the Identification of Youth Mental Health Needs in Pediatric Primary Care"   Jonathan Brown
    "High-Performance Health Plan Networks: Early Experiences"   Debra Draper

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