Research & Publications Office to host seminar on ‘Impact of Regulation on Deceased-Donor Liver Offer Acceptance: A Framework and Analysis’ on 18 September
The talk will be delivered by Prof. Shubham Akshat, University of Houston
17 September, 2024, Bengaluru: The Office of Research and Publications (R&P) at IIM Bangalore will host a research seminar on, ‘Impact of Regulation on Deceased-Donor Liver Offer Acceptance: A Framework and Analysis’, to be led by Prof. Shubham Akshat, University of Houston (Decision Sciences area), at 2.30 pm on 18 September 2024, at Classroom P-22.
Abstract: Organ transplantation is a life-saving therapy. In the United States, around three patients die every day awaiting a liver transplant. Thus, it is important to make the best use of the limited supply of organs. The post-transplant outcomes at transplant programs in the US are publicly reported every six months in the form of program-specific reports. These reports are used by insurance companies to make business decisions and direct patients to programs with superior outcomes. Historically, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the largest single-payer of transplant services in the US, used these reports to regulate the programs, low performers risked losing their contract with CMS.
The research studies the systematic impact of CMS regulations on the deceased-donor liver organ-offer acceptance behavior of a transplant program. They develop a novel empirical framework that jointly models the patient-centric considerations (exclusive to optimizing acceptance decisions to maximize the utility in the form of survival chances) and regulatory considerations (to avoid the risk of regulatory scrutiny). They use approximately five years’ data (March 2014 to December 2018) on the candidates’ decisions on organ offers to estimate the parameters.
In this talk, the speaker will present the research findings on a transplant program’s offer acceptance behavior, and interesting insights that have not been documented before. He will conclude by discussing the implications and future steps.
Speaker Profile: Dr. Shubham Akshat is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Decision & Information Sciences at the C.T. Bauer College of Business, University of Houston. His research primarily concerns improving resource allocation in the public sector using data-driven frameworks. He works in liver-organ transplantation (healthcare) and the child welfare system. He earned a PhD in Operations Management from the University of Maryland, College Park, and a Bachelor of Technology in Production & Industrial Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.
Research & Publications Office to host seminar on ‘Impact of Regulation on Deceased-Donor Liver Offer Acceptance: A Framework and Analysis’ on 18 September
The talk will be delivered by Prof. Shubham Akshat, University of Houston
17 September, 2024, Bengaluru: The Office of Research and Publications (R&P) at IIM Bangalore will host a research seminar on, ‘Impact of Regulation on Deceased-Donor Liver Offer Acceptance: A Framework and Analysis’, to be led by Prof. Shubham Akshat, University of Houston (Decision Sciences area), at 2.30 pm on 18 September 2024, at Classroom P-22.
Abstract: Organ transplantation is a life-saving therapy. In the United States, around three patients die every day awaiting a liver transplant. Thus, it is important to make the best use of the limited supply of organs. The post-transplant outcomes at transplant programs in the US are publicly reported every six months in the form of program-specific reports. These reports are used by insurance companies to make business decisions and direct patients to programs with superior outcomes. Historically, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the largest single-payer of transplant services in the US, used these reports to regulate the programs, low performers risked losing their contract with CMS.
The research studies the systematic impact of CMS regulations on the deceased-donor liver organ-offer acceptance behavior of a transplant program. They develop a novel empirical framework that jointly models the patient-centric considerations (exclusive to optimizing acceptance decisions to maximize the utility in the form of survival chances) and regulatory considerations (to avoid the risk of regulatory scrutiny). They use approximately five years’ data (March 2014 to December 2018) on the candidates’ decisions on organ offers to estimate the parameters.
In this talk, the speaker will present the research findings on a transplant program’s offer acceptance behavior, and interesting insights that have not been documented before. He will conclude by discussing the implications and future steps.
Speaker Profile: Dr. Shubham Akshat is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Decision & Information Sciences at the C.T. Bauer College of Business, University of Houston. His research primarily concerns improving resource allocation in the public sector using data-driven frameworks. He works in liver-organ transplantation (healthcare) and the child welfare system. He earned a PhD in Operations Management from the University of Maryland, College Park, and a Bachelor of Technology in Production & Industrial Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.