Presentations: When Public Payment Declines, Does Cost-Shifting Occur? Hospital and Physician Responses

Sponsored by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation under its Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization (HCFO) initiative and conducted by AcademyHealth
November 13, 2002 - Wyndham Washington, Washington, D.C.

Session I - Economic Theory and Research Evidence: What do They Say?

Hospital and Physician Cost-Shifting: A Conceptual Framework [1]
Paul Ginsburg, Ph.D., Center for Studying Health System Change

What Happens When Medicare Payments Change? Putting Medicare in Perspective [2]
Stuart Guterman, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services

Cost-Shifting: An Integral Aspect of U.S. Health Care Finance [3]
Allen Dobson, Ph.D., The Lewin Group

Cost-Shifting…Again? [4]
Michael Morrisey, Ph.D., University of Alabama at Birmingham

Economic Theory and Evidence on Cost Shifting: Hospital and Physician Responses [5]
Thomas McGuire, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School

Session II - Bringing Practice to Policy: Effects of Reductions in Public Payments

The Impact of Changing Payment Levels on Providers [6]
Richard Showalter, Jr., Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

When Public Payment Declines Does Cost-Shifting Occur? Hospital and Physician Responses [7]
Donald Fisher, Ph.D., American Medical Group Association

When Public Payment Declines Does Cost-Shifting Occur? The California Experience [8]
Joan Trauner, Ph.D., Independent Consultant

Maryland Medicaid Program: Cost-Shifting Among Payers [9]
Debbie Chang, Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
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• Overview [10]
• Presentation Slides
• Agenda [11]
• Goal Statement [12]
• Kaiser Webcast [13]