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Policy Related Studies & Analyses
We focus on the development and implementation of unbiased, defensible, and quantitative methodology to achieve interdisciplinary approach and pragmatic solution to complicated problems.
Our staff analysts are experts in planning and performing intricate studies in areas such as health care financing, public health, quality measurement, applied economics, finances, income security, and law issues. Such a focused content specialization requires hands-on expertise in multiple methods of basic and applied research. Consequently, our staff is highly trained and experienced in quantitative and qualitative methods.
Our selected experiences, by subject matter, are listed below.
Experiences in Health Care & Health Economics
Medicare Research and Demonstration (MRAD)
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) / Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
Under this MRAD task order contract, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will award task orders for a wide range of general research, analysis, demonstration and survey activities. These research and demonstration projects may relate to: Medicare, Medicaid, the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) issues related to uninsured populations, and any other aspects of CMS program responsibilities.
Impact of Payment Reform For Part B Covered Outpatient Drugs and Biologicals
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) / Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
Prior to the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA), drug manufacturers largely determined the prices paid by Medicare for Part B covered drugs, and providers could profit from the “spread” between Medicare’s payment for drug costs and providers’ actual - and often considerably lower - costs. The MMA Part B drug payment reform sought to correct these problems by bringing drug payments in line with providers’ true acquisition costs, and increasing service payments to match the providers’ actual costs for service provision. This study intends to evaluate the effects of the MMA payment reform, controlled for regulatory changes such as the CMS chemotherapy quality of care demonstration, the implementation of Part D of Medicare, and changes in physician payment mandated by the sustainable growth rate system, etc.
Short-term Policy Assessment and Studies
Assistant Secretary for Planning & Evaluation (ASPE), DHHS /
Moshman Associates, Inc.
This IDIQ task order contract provides timely and policy-oriented information for use by the Secretary of the DHHS and the ASPE, and other senior policy officials for their legislative, budgetary, regulatory, and other policy decisions; and conducting policy research and evaluation to improve the design and performance of current programs and, where appropriate, develop policy options and alternatives.
Evaluation of the Capitated Disease Management Demonstration
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) / Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
The purpose of this project is to evaluate the effectiveness of the Medicare Capitated Disease Management Demonstration for Medicare beneficiaries with chronic medical conditions such as stroke, congestive heart failure, and diabetes; people who receive both Medicare and Medicaid (dual eligibles); or frail elderly patients that would benefit from a greater coordination of services.
Medicare Quality Monitoring System (MQMS)
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) / Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
MQMS study is to promote and support data-driven decisions by policymakers concerning health care purchased by Medicare and to provide consumers with meaning information for selected health care providers. ANASYS is responsible for producing data on the trends, patterns and variations of health status, service utilization, patient safety, process and outcomes of care.
Economic Analyses and Forecast
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) /
DRI-WEFA (Currently, Global Insights, Inc.)
This study is to conduct economic analysis and economic forecast for the National Health Statistics Group. This study covers development and maintenance of a variety of input price indexes - designed to reflect the prices of inputs used by providers in providing health care services and used to recommend Medicare provider reimbursement rates to Congress. These indexes are weighted averages of economy-wide price indices for specific goods and services, periodically re-estimated and rebased to track the rate at which prices for health care would escalate as in competitive markets.
Analysis of Large Data Sets Task Order (ADDSTO)
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
This project is a five year IDIQ Task Order Master Contract to develop and apply analytic methods to address specific issues relate to the resolution of major U.S. health care financing issues.
Research,
Analysis, Demonstration Task Order (RADSTO)
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) / Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
This project is a five year IDIQ Task Order Master Contract to
conduct studies and analyses relating to major health care
financing, the assessment of the quality and appropriateness of
services delivered to the HCFA's program beneficiaries, and the
development of new methods and approaches for the administration
of HCFA's programs.
National Hospital Malpractice Insurance Costs
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
By conducting the National Hospital Malpractice Insurance Survey (NHMIS), this study aimed to estimate hospital malpractice insurance costs in light of the increasingly prevalent self-insurance and develops a method for calculating the malpractice insurance cost change over time at the national level. The study results were used to rebase the Medicare hospital input price index and the annual percent change to update the Medicare prospective payment (PPS) operating reimbursement rates to hospitals.
Exploratory
Study of Urban Hospitals
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
This study analyzed market structures of managed care industry. Exploratory measures were developed as quantitative comparative measures of managed care impact. The measures were evaluated against other available measures for managed care including Herfindahl Index for inpatient hospital services. Using the results, we assessed how Medicare inpatient hospital utilization and revenue among urban hospitals have changed by their differing degrees of managed care impact over the study period. This study included comparative geographical analysis employing statistical metropolitan area (MSA) as the unit of analysis.
Research Support Services
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
This project is a five year IDIQ Task Order Master Contract to provide data programming and processing services in data analysis, data acquisition, data collection, and development of research files in support of research, analytic, and demonstration projects.
Experiences in Epidemiology
Health Effects of Resource Recovery Facility
State of Maryland / ENSR Corporation
This epidemiologic study assesses whether the Montgomery County municipal waste resource recovery facility (RRF) is associated with causing any adverse health effects in the community, specifically focusing on respiratory illnesses and asthma (International Classification of Diseases - ICD-9 code 460-519).
Experiences in Law
An Empirical Study of Custody and Divorce Cases in Maryland
Women's Law Center of Maryland
Large scale statistical study of custody and the financial outcomes of divorce in the state of Maryland.
Study of Pro Bono Activities among Maryland Lawyers
State of Maryland, Administrative Office of the Courts
Through annual surveys of more than 30,000 lawyers certified to practice law in the State of Maryland, this study analyzes their pro bono activities and IOLTA accounts through a combination of cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses.
Experiences in Income Security & Management Consulting
Financial Analysis of the Defined Contribution Plans
Department of Labor
This study analyzed financial performance of private defined contribution plans in terms of providing retirement income to participants. We examined rates of returns and employer/employee contributions by various characteristics of private pension plans such as plan entity, industry, type of plans, funding arrangement, plan age, number of participants and participating ratio, asset size, investment in employer security, and plan termination. Through a longitudinal analysis, this study focused on cumulative rate of return as a cumulative wealth index of individual accounts and contributions with recent IRS Form 5500 data.
Feasibility Study of Transforming Pro-Net into a Self-Supporting Entity
Small Business Administration
The objectives of this feasibility study were to design and evaluate the feasibility of transforming the PRO-Net system, a nationwide Internet based database of information on small businesses, into a self-supporting entity. The study was charged to address the issues of public access and accountability, structure and responsibility, management and staffing, and fiscal soundness. For the purposes of this study, we examined various funding mechanisms to make the PRO-Net a self-support entity. These included funding through sponsors or advertising, user fees, and other funding arrangements including one percent industrial funding fee (IFF) of the General Services Administration (GSA) and registration fee.