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Public Health Speaker Series: Understanding the Causes and Consequences of Care Cascades that Result from Low-Value Services

Wednesday, September 21, 2022 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Brown Lounge 2nd Floor Brown Lounge

We're kicking off the fall semester of the Public Health Speaker Series in conjunction with the Center for Health Economics and Policy. Together, we are pleased to welcome Meredith Rosenthal, the C. Boyden Gray Professor of Health Economics and Policy at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health and the Faculty Chair of Harvard’s Advanced Leadership Initiative.

Rosenthal will present her talk “Understanding the Causes and Consequences of Care Cascades that Result from Low-Value Services”. Routine medical tests may trigger cascades of further medical services that are of uncertain value and can cause substantial harms to patients. Understanding the prevalence of these tests and their cascades would allow payers, policymakers, and clinicians to prioritize and target efforts to mitigate low value care and its consequences. We used national Medicare claims data to estimate the prevalence of specific routine tests performed to identify patient, area-level, and visit characteristics associated with receiving these tests, and to measure the prevalence and cost of their cascades -- attributable laboratory tests, imaging tests, procedures, visits, hospitalizations and new diagnoses that follow.

The lecture is free and open to the public. It will be a hybrid event, streaming live from Brown Lounge.

Event Type

Lectures & Presentations

Schools

Brown School

Topic

Medicine & Health

Event Contact

mphprogram@brownschool.wustl.edu

Speaker Information

Rosenthal received her Ph.D. in health policy at Harvard University in 1998.  Her research examines the design and impact of market-oriented health policy mechanisms, with a particular focus on the use of financial incentives to alter consumer and provider behavior.

Rosenthal’s recent research examines the structure and performance of health systems across the U.S., vertical integration of physician practices, and market factors driving cancer drug pricing trends. Dr. Rosenthal is a member of the Massachusetts Center for Health Information and Analysis oversight commission. Dr. Rosenthal received her B.A in International Relations from Brown University in 1990 and her Ph.D. in Health Policy from Harvard University in 1998. Dr. Rosenthal was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 2014.

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