Final program of the Swiss Health Economics Workshop 2013

1. 1
Final Program for the first Swiss Health Economics Workshop (September 13, 2013)
Location: Meeting Rooms at the CSS Versicherung Hauptsitz, Tribschenstr. 21, 6002 Luzern
10:00 Start
10:15 Introduction by Konstantin Beck
10:30 Plenary Speeches (Room 5.250) Speaker Discussant Chair
10:30 -
11:00
The division of labor between private and
social insurance
Peter Zweifel, Prof. em. Department of Economics, University
of Zurich, Zurich
Konstantin Beck
11:00 -
11:30
Inpatient Payment Schemes and Cost
Efficiency: Evidence From Swiss Public
Hospitals
Stefan Meyer, Department of Health Economics, University of
Basel, Basel
Parallel Session 1 (Room 5.250)
11:30 -
12:15
Is population ageing really dwarfed by
advances in medical technology as a driver
of healthcare expenditure (HCE)? Evidence
from the Swiss case
Carsten Colombier, Finanzwissenschaftliches
Forschungsinstitut, Universität zu Köln and Eidgenössische
Steuerverwaltung, Bern
Viktor von Wyl Harry Telser
12:15 -
13:00 Lunch
13:00 -
13:45
Choice of Reserve Capacity With Uncertain
Demand: Evidence from Swiss Hospitals
Under Prospective Payment
Phillippe Widmer, Polynomics, Olten and Department of
Economics, University of Zurich, Zurich
Konstantin Beck
Peter Zweifel
13:45 -
14:30
Risk Adjustment – Did we take the right
track?
Konstantin Beck, CSS-Institute for Empirical Health
Economics, Lucerne and Department of Economics, University
of Zurich, Zurich
Peter Zweifel
14:30 -
15:15
Risk adjustment can undermine solidarity
between generations: A longitudinal case
study from Switzerland
Viktor von Wyl, CSS-Institute for Empirical Health Economics,
Lucerne and Institute for Social and Preventive Medicine,
University of Bern, Bern
Renate Strobl
15:15 -
15:45 Coffee - Break
15:45 -
16:30
Reimbursement Reform and the Distribution
of Labor between In- and Outpatient Care:
Evidence from Switzerland
Timo Tondelli, Department of Health Economics, University of
Basel, Basel
Simon Spika
Konstantin Beck
16:30 -
17:15
Prospective payment in psychiatry: Early
experience from a natural experiment in the
canton of Zurich
Mark Pletscher, Winterthur Institute for Health Economics,
Zürich University of Applied Sciences, Winterthur
Carsten Colombier

2. 2
Parallel Session 2 (Room 5.264) Speaker Discussant Chair
11:30 -
12:15
Costs, Quantities, and Prices of the Swiss
Health Care System
Reto Schleiniger, Center for Economic Policy, Zürich
University of Applied Sciences, Winterthur
Mark Pletscher Simon Wieser
12:15 -
13:00 Lunch
13:00 -
13:45
Disability and Subjective Well-being -
Disentangling the effect of time-use and
emotional aspects
Michael Ingenhaag, Faculty of Business and Economics,
University of Lausanne, Lausanne
Timo Tondelli
Stefan Meyer
13:45 -
14:30
Development of a patient classification
system for inpatient rehabilitation in
Switzerland
Simon Wieser, Winterthur Institute for Health Economics,
Zürich University of Applied Sciences, Winterthur
Carola Huber
14:30 -
15:15
Internal decision-making processes and
hospital behavior: Hierarchical principal-
agent vs. bargaining models
Simon Spika, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich and
Department of Economics, University of Zurich
Stefan Meyer
15:15 -
15:45 Coffee - Break
15:45 -
16:30
Prediction of health care expenditures,
utilization, and mortality using health care
claims data
Carola Huber, Helsana Versicherungen, Zurich Reto Schleiniger
Reto Schleiniger
16:30 -
17:15
Community-based health insurance in
Rwanda: An effective measure against child
labour?
Renate Strobl, Department of Health Economics, University of
Basel, Basel
Michael Ingenhaag
17:15 Closing remarks (Room 5.250)
17:30 End of Workshop