5183.0 Health Services Research: Cost Analyses

Wednesday, November 7, 2007: 2:30 PM
Oral
Presider:
R. Paul Duncan, PhD, MS

2:30 PM
Patient Cost-sharing Effects on Emergency Department Visits: Incentives and Alternatives
John Hsu, MD, MBA, MSCE, Mary Price, MA, Richard Brand, PhD, Vicki Fung, PhD, Bruce Fireman, MA, Joseph V. Selby, MD, MPH and Joseph P. Newhouse, PhD
2:45 PM
Cardiometabolic risk factors and healthcare cost for a sample of health plan members
Sarah J. Beaton, PhD, Scott B. Robinson, MA, MPH, Ann Von Worley, RN, BSHS, Herbert T. Davis, PhD, Audra Boscoe, PhD, Rami Ben-Joseph, PhD and Lynn J. Okamoto, PharmD
           
3:00 PM
Total Hip Replacement: Practice Makes Perfect – Procedure Volume Predicts Operative Time, Rehabilitation, Inpatient Cost, and LOS
Sudha Xirasagar, MBBS, PhD and Herng-Ching Lin, PhD
        
3:15 PM
Health expenditures across racial and ethnic groups among childhood cancer patients/survivors
Junling Wang, PhD and Zhiyong Dong, MS
     
3:30 PM
Surveillance intensity and costs after curative-intent treatment for melanoma patients: Wide variation or consensus?
Katherine Virgo, PhD, MBA, Qiao Guo, BA, Bradley W. Stockmann, BS, Barry S. Handler, MD and Frank E. Johnson, MD
  

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Organized by: Medical Care

CE Credits: CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

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