Decision on SIG-2026-0340

[MSOM Conference]

08-May-2026

Re: SIG-2026-0340, "Matching with Choice: Menu Design for Patient-Provider Assignment"

SIG Day Decision: Reject

Dear Author (this is to ensure anonymity):

We received many excellent submissions for the Healthcare Operations Management SIG-Day Conference. Unfortunately, we were unable to accept all of them to be included in the program, and we are sorry to say that your paper was not accepted to the SIG-Day conference.

If you also submitted an extended abstract of your paper to the main MSOM Conference, a decision on that submission will come separately.


Sincerely,

Healthcare Operations;SIG Co-Chairs

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Please summarize the paper briefly. - Rev: The paper contributes to the field of operations management by bridging the gap between assortment optimization and matching markets through an offline-menu/online-selection framework. Theoretically, it characterizes the trade-offs of menu design, proving that upfront menus incentivize early patient response while demonstrating that traditional Offer-One or Offer-All policies
fail under preference uncertainty and capacity congestion.

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Please summarize the paper briefly. - Rev: The paper proposes a new patient-provider matching model that utilizes choice menus to balance preference uncertainty with provider capacity constraints. The authors demonstrate that extreme policies (offering only one provider or offering all providers) fail to maximize system utility. To address this, they develop the Scenario-Averaged Marginal (SAM) algorithm to compute tailored menus offline, and they use a semi-synthetic simulation to show that their approach successfully hedges against preference uncertainty and mitigates capacity bottlenecks in large healthcare platforms.-


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