Seminar Series
Join us as we dive deeper into the minds of health policy experts through seminars and guest lectures hosted by CAHPR.
Seminar Series
Join us as we dive deeper into the minds of health policy experts through seminars and guest lectures hosted by CAHPR.
2025 Seminar Series

The Impact of the Medicare Advantage Program on Market Level Medicare Spending
Michael Chernew, PhD
Leonard D. Schaeffer Professor of Health Care Policy and the Director of the Healthcare Markets and Regulation (HMR) Lab in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School
Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Value-Based Insurance Design: Aligning Patient and Provider Incentives to Increase Use of High-value Care, Enhance Equity, and Eliminate Low-Value Services
Mark Fendrick, MD
Professor of Internal Medicine in the School of Medicine and a Professor of Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health at the University of Michigan
Wednesday, April 9, 2025

How will Medicare Advantage's Performance Change as it Grows?
Matthew Fiedler, PhD
Joseph A. Pechman Senior Fellow in Economic Studies, The Brookings Institution
Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Medicare Spending After People Disenroll from Medicare Advantage
Jeannie Fuglesten Biniek, PhD
Associate Director, Program on Medicare Policy, KFF
Wednesday, February 12, 2025
2024 Seminar Series
Navigating Health Policy in 2025: Implications for the 119th Congress and Next Administration
Jared Perkins, MPA
Director of Health Policy Strategy, Brown University
Wednesday, December 11, 2024
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Increases in Inpatient Hospital Upcoding Between 2011 and 2019
Daniel J. Crespin, PhD, MSPH
Associate Policy Researcher, RAND
Wednesday, November 13, 2024

Vertical Consolidation and the Transformation of Medicare
Hayden Rooke-Ley, JD
Post JD Fellow, CAHPR, Brown University
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
Impacts of Physician Vertical Integration on Risk Score Growth
David J. Meyers, PhD
Associate Director, CAHPR & Assistant Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice, Brown University
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
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Increases in Professional Fees in Private Equity Owned vs Health System-Affiliated Physician Practices
Yashaswini Singh, PhD
Assistant Professor of Health Services, Policy & Practice, Brown University
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
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Health Care Reform: ACA-Biden vs. Trump vs. Single Payer
Oliver T Fein, M.D.
Professor Emeritus of Clinical Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College
Tuesday, Apr 30, 2024

Don't Feed the Bugs: Reproducibilty for Health Policy Research
Alyssa Bilinsky, PhD
Peterson Family Assistant Professor of Health Policy
Assistant Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice and Biostatistics, Brown University
Tuesday, Apr 3, 2024
Do Ordeals Work for Selection Markets? Evidence from Health Insurance Auto-Enrollment
Mark Shephard, PhD
Associate Professor, Harvard Kennedy School of Government & Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Wednesday, Mar 13, 2024
Quality Disclosure, Demand, and Congestion: Evidence from Physician Ratings
Ben Chartock, PhD
Assistant Professor, Economics at Bentley University
Wednesday, Feb 7, 2024
2023 Seminar Series
Changes in Enrollee Cost-Sharing and Care Utilization After Two Years of Oregon's Hospital Payment Cap
Roslyn (Roz) Murray, MPP (current PhD candidate at the University of Michigan School of Public Health)
Monday, Oct 2, 2023