18th DGGÖ Conference, Wuppertal

11 March 2026, by Hannes Rathjen

At the 18th Annual Conference of the German Society for Health Economics, held in Wuppertal from March 9–10, several doctoral researchers from the Graduate School “Managerial and Economic Dimensions of Health Care Quality” presented their work:

Janice Schönfeld: Medical Loss Ratio Enforcement and Healthcare Spending: Evidence from Organizational Differences in Medicaid Markets

Lena Imhof: Evaluating Hospital Discharge Planning in Cardiac Care: Evidence from a Hospital Survey and Administrative Data

Lea Bullenkamp: Physician Performance Pay under Treatment Risk: Theory and Experimental Evidence

Patricia Vester: Economic Burden of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) in Germany: A Claims Data Analysis

Lara Lenz: Umbrella Review on the Effects of Matching Preferences in Mental Health Care

Benedikt Langenbeck: Causal Effects of Surgical Learning

Michael Möller: Estimating Heterogeneous Treatment Effects of Integrated Healthcare Using Machine Learning

Robert Wittram: Modelling the Effectiveness of Pancreatic Cancer Screening for Economic Evaluation: A Microsimulation Study

Isadora Mathevet: The role of the family in the location choice of adult children