The 3rd Health Care Markets Conference

The health care market landscape in the United States has changed rapidly in the past several years, requiring an integrated perspective to understand the complex interaction between choices at the micro level and the shifting regulatory and institutional landscape at the macro level. This two-day conference provides a forum for industry leaders, policy analysts, and academic experts to examine how consumer and firm choices, as well as government regulation and policy, shape and transform health care markets.

Agenda

Thursday, March 27

8 – 8:45 a.m. Breakfast

8:45 – 9 a.m. Opening Remarks

Goker Aydin, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School

9 – 10 a.m.

Comparing the Effects of Vertical Integration and Horizontal Consolidation: Evidence from the Dialysis Industry
Presenter: Ryan McDevitt, Duke University
Co-author: Paul J. Eliason, Brigham Young University
James W. Roberts, Duke University

10 – 11 a.m.

Mergers Effect on Data Breaches in Hospitals
Presenter: Nan Clement, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

11 – 11:20 a.m. Break

11:20 a.m. – 12:20 p.m.

Can Generative AI Improve Marketing Communications for Small Businesses? Evidence from Mental Health Care
Presenter: Daniel Goetz, University of Toronto

12:20 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Lunch

1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Does Access to Human Coaches Lead to More Weight Loss Than with AI Coaches Alone?
Presenter: Sridhar Narayanan, Stanford University
Co-author: Anuj Kapoor, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad Puneet Manchanda, University of Michigan

2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Engagement Dynamics in mHealth
Presenter: Yikun Jiang, University of California, Berkeley
Co-author: Kosuke Uetake, Yale University
Nathan Yang, Cornell University

3:30 p.m. - 3:50 p.m. Break

3:50 p.m. – 4:50 p.m.

Health Insurance and the Dynamics of Patient Decision-Making
Presenter: Jong Yeob Kim, Nanyang Technological University
Co-author: Masakazu Ishihara, New York University
Vishal Singh, New York University

5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Reception

Friday, March 28

8 a.m. – 9 a.m. Breakfast

9 a.m. – 10 a.m.

Predictably Unpredictable: Inspections and Quality in Healthcare
Presenter: Ashvin Gandhi, University of California
Co-author: Andrew Olenski, Lehigh University
Maggie Shi, University of Chicago

10 a.m. – 11 a.m.

Selection into Medicine
Presenter: Diane Alexander, University of Pennsylvania
Co-authors: Molly Schnell, Northwestern University

11 – 11:15 a.m. Break

11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.

The Determinants of Physicians’ Location Choice: Understanding the Rural Shortage
Presenter: Elena Falcettoni, Federal Reserve Board of Governors

12:15 p.m. Concluding Remarks and Boxed Lunch