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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
Paul Ginsburg, Ph.D., Center for Studying Health System Change
What
Happens When Medicare Payments Change? Putting Medicare in Perspective
Stuart Guterman, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Cost-Shifting:
An Integral Aspect of U.S. Health Care Finance
Allen Dobson, Ph.D., The Lewin Group
Cost-Shifting
Again?
Michael Morrisey, Ph.D., University of Alabama at Birmingham
Economic
Theory and Evidence on Cost Shifting: Hospital and Physician Responses
Thomas McGuire, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School
Session II
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Bringing Practice to Policy:
Effects of Reductions in Public Payments
The
Impact of Changing Payment Levels on Providers
Richard Showalter, Jr., Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
When
Public Payment Declines Does Cost-Shifting Occur? Hospital and Physician
Responses
Donald Fisher, Ph.D., American Medical Group Association
When
Public Payment Declines Does Cost-Shifting Occur? The California
Experience
Joan Trauner, Ph.D., Independent Consultant
Maryland
Medicaid Program: Cost-Shifting Among Payers
Debbie Chang, Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
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