Health Care Costs Workshop Agenda
Health Care Costs:
In Pursuit of Standardized Methods and Estimates for Research and Policy Applications
Rockville, Maryland
December 6 - 7, 2007
The workshop was co-sponsored by the National Cancer
Institute (NCI) and the Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality (AHRQ), and focused on arenas of application, approaches to framing
cost analyses, approaches to calculating/imputing health care costs, and issues in the
statistical analysis of cost data.
Specific goals of the workshop were to:
- examine current applications and standard practices in health care cost estimation;
- discuss core methodological and empirical challenges;
- evaluate potential advantages and hurdles in developing standardized cost estimates;
- identify "best practices" in the measurement, statistical analysis, and application of health care costs; and
- inform the research agenda on improving data, methods, and the scientific quality and relevance of cost analyses.
Thursday evening (5:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.)
Sheraton Rockville Hotel
920 King Farm Boulevard
| 5:30 – 6:00
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Reception and Welcome
| | 6:00 – 7:00
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Dinner
| | 7:00 – 7:10
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Introduction to the Workshop
Joseph Lipscomb, PhD -
Emory University
[view presentation]
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| Arenas of Application |
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| 7:10 – 7:40
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National-level estimates of economic burden of disease: Implications from the Disease Control Priorities Project
Dean Jamison, PhD -
University of California, San Francisco
[view presentation]
| | 7:40 – 8:10
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Economic analysis alongside clinical trials and in observational studies
Deborah Marshall, PhD -
i3 Innovus and McMaster University
[view presentation]
| | 8:10 – 8:40
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Cost-effectiveness analysis, cost-benefit analysis, decision modeling
Tom Hoerger, PhD -
Research Triangle Institute
[view presentation]
| | 8:40 – 9:00
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Core methodological and empirical challenges
Joseph Lipscomb, PhD -
Emory University
[view presentation]
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Friday (8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.)
AHRQ Conference Center
540 Gaither Road
| Approaches to Framing a Cost Analysis |
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| 8:00 – 9:00
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Prevalence and incidence approaches to estimating costs and attributable costs
Speaker: Martin Brown, PhD -
National Cancer Institute
[view presentation]
Discussant: Bill Barlow, PhD -
Cancer Research and Biostatistics and University of Washington
[view presentation]
| | 9:00 – 10:00
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Perspectives on determining "incremental cost" for decision making: Planning for the long-run, living in the short-run
Speakers: Paul Fishman, PhD - Group Health Center for Health Studies and University of Washington;
Mark Hornbrook, PhD - Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research and Oregon Health & Science University
[view presentation]
Discussant: Peter Neumann, ScD - Tufts University
[view presentation]
| | 10:00 – 10:15
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Break
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| Approaches to calculating/imputing health care costs |
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| 10:15 – 11:15
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National health accounts
Speaker: Steven Heffler, MBA -
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services [view presentation]
Discussants: Steve Cohen, PhD -
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
[view presentation];
Jessica Banthin, PhD -
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
[view presentation]
| | 11:15 – 12:00
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Administrative/claims data
Speaker: Gerald Riley, MSPH -
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
[view presentation]
| | 12:00 – 12:30
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Lunch
| | 12:30 – 1:30
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Micro-costing
Speaker: Kevin Frick, PhD -
Johns Hopkins University
[view presentation]
Discussants: Paul Barnett, PhD -
VA Palo Alto Healthcare System and Stanford University
[view presentation];
Louise Russell, PhD -
Rutgers University
[view presentation]
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| Issues in the Statistical Analysis of Cost Data |
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| 1:30 – 2:30
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Speaker: John Mullahy, PhD -
University of Wisconsin
[view presentation]
Discussants: Eugene Huang, PhD -
Emory University
[view presentation]
| | 2:30 – 2:45
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Break
| | 2:45 – 4:00
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Final Roundtable Discussion [view presentation]
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