Room: Phillips 307
Time: Mon 08:30 AM-10:00 AM

Evaluation of Health Care Market Innovations

Chair: Stephen Parente (University of Minnesota)

Session Description

This session highlights new areas of market research in the areas of provider care reporting, retail clinics and hospital competition. The first paper examines the revisits the provider report card technology with new data on consumer use of the information and subsequent changes in care patterns. The second paper presents a longitudinal cohort analysis on the effect of retail clinics on health care cost and utilization. The third paper investigates whether hospital market competition is associated with an increased compliance on several key evidence-based heart failure quality indicators.

Key Terms health insurance, consumerism, welfare effects, report cards, hospital competition

Session Organizer: Stephen Parente (University of Minnesota)

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Presentations

1. Survival Guaranteed or Your CABG Is On Us: Efficient Quality Revelation in Healthcare

   Presenter: Lorens Helmchen (University of Illinois at Chicago)

   Discussant: Pinar Karaca-Mandic (University of Minnesota)

2. The Effects of Market Competition on Hospital Performance: Does it lead to Better Heart Failure Care?

   Presenter: Jared Maeda (University of Illinois at Chicago) and Anthony Lo Sasso (University of Illinois at Chicago)

   Discussant: Jeffrey McCullough (University of Minnesota)

3. The Impact of Retail Clinics on Cost and Utilization: Substitute or Complements to Physician Services

   Presenter: Robert Town (University of Minnesota)

   Discussant: Leemore Dafny (Northwestern University)