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HCFO Grantees at AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting

Publication Date:
May 14, 2014
We are looking forward to seeing past and current HCFO grantees at AcademyHealth’s 2014 Annual Research Meeting (ARM), June 8-10 in San Diego. A schedule of the sessions featuring current and former grantees is listed below.
Sunday, June 8
- James Maxwell, Early Observations from Accountable Care Organizations Developing in the Private Market
- Harold Luft, Transformations in Primary Care and Specialty Medicine: Medical Homes and Beyond
- Glen Mays, Public Health Financing and Costs
- Laurence Baker & Andrew Ryan, Care Transformation and Delivery System Reform
- R. Adams Dudley & Andrew Ryan, Greater Expectations: Pay-for-Performance's Lessons for Value Based Purchasing
- Matthew Maciejewski, Improving the Management, Care Coordination, and Patient Outcomes of Multiple Comorbid Populations
- Mark Hornbrook, Complications and Procedures during Pregnancy and Childbirth
- Susan Busch, Health Policy, Payment and Delivery System Reforms
- Jean Abraham & Donald Taylor, What Do Medicare Policymakers Say They Need from Researchers
Monday, June 9
- Michael Chernew & Len Nichols, Is it Time for Comprehensive Competitive Pricing in Medicare?
- Ateev Mehrotra, How Do We Meaningfully Solve the Primary Care Shortage?
- Stephen Parente & Jack Needleman, Best of ARM: Part One
- Judith Hibbard & Anna Sinaiko, Navigating the Health Insurance Exchanges: Consumer Choice and the Use of Available Information
- Marisa Domino, Innovative Practices in Behavioral Health and Health Services
- Daniel Polsky & Kevin Volpp, Research Funding 2014: Federal Funding Mechanisms
- Joel Cantor & Jose Escarce, Reporting and Interpretation of Coverage Expansion: Lessons Learned
- Vincent Mor, ACO and Bundled Payments for Post-Acute Services
- Alison Galbraith, Effect of Benefit Design on Health Care Access, Quality or Utilization
- Jean Abraham & James Maxwell, The ACA: Exchanges, Awareness, and Outreach
- Kevin Volpp, Incentives for Health Risk Assessments and Biometric Screening: Controversies around Their Evidence, Policy and Ethics
- Michael Chernew, Publishing Instead of Perishing: Meet the Editors Part Two
- Kathleen Thiede Call, Measurement Error in Survey Estimates of Medicaid Participation: Current Problems and Future Directions
- Chapin White, Supply Side Simulation Modeling
- Carrie Colla & Michael McWilliams, The Evolution of Accountable Care Organizations: Promise and Performances
- Timothy Waidman, Coverage Trends and Dynamics for Lower-Income Children: Role of Medicaid, CHIP and Private Insurance
- Andrew Ryan, Cutting Edge Advancements in Quality Measurement and Evaluation
- Ashish Jha, Extending the Reach of Your Academic Expertise
- Kevin Volpp, Financial Incentives for Health Behavior
- Sandra Decker, Moving from Coverage to Care: System Capacity and the Role of the Health Care Safety Net Under the ACA
- Austin Frakt, Beyond Peer Review: Packaging Your Work for Different Audiences
Tuesday, June 10
- Donald Taylor, Best of ARM: Part Two
- Arnold Milstein, The Pathway toward Value: Building on Cost and Quality Measurement
- Ateev Mehrotra, Training Needs of the Future
- Jean Abraham, Advances in Public Health Systems and Services Research
- Eric Schneider, Spreading Evidence-Based Practices: Collaboratives, Campaigns, and the Law
- Marsha Gold, Barriers and Facilitators Shaping the Health Information Exchange Landscape: Findings from the HITECH National Program Evaluations
- Genevieve Kenney, Children’s Health Insurance Coverage: Progress, Obstacles, and Opportunities
- William Schpero, Choosing Wisely and the Measurement of Low-Value Medical Care Services
- Stephen Parente, Emerging Opportunities for Health Services Researchers to Access Large National Datasets
- Stephen Zuckerman, Late-Breaking Abstract Session: The ACA and Early Performance
- Sandra Decker, NCHS Research Resources for Studying Geographic Disparities: Location, Location, Location
- David Dranove, Real Applications of 'Big Data' to Drive Near-Term Value and the Use of Data for Research
For a full list of presentations see the ARM agenda. The standard registration deadline for ARM is May 30th so if you have not registered click here for more information.