Health Care Program Meeting.

PositionProgram and Working Group Meetings

The NBER's Program on Health Care met in Cambridge on March 1, 2013. Program Director Jonathan Gruber, NBER and MIT, organized the meeting. These papers were discussed:

* Mireille Jacobson, RAND Corporation and NBER; Joseph Newhouse, Harvard University and NBER; and Craig Earle, Harvard University, "Can Physician Induced Demand Benefit Patients? Evidence from a Major Change to Medicare Chemotherapy Reimbursement Policy"

* Robert Kaestner, University of Illinois and NBER, and Anthony Lo Sasso, University of Illinois, Chicago, "Does Seeing the Doctor More Often Keep You Out of the Hospital?"

* Jason Abaluck, Yale University and NBER, and Leila Agha, Boston University, "Negative Tests and the Efficiency of Medical Care: Investigating the Determinants of Imaging Overuse"

* Benjamin Handel, University of...

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