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Grant Number: 1R41AG029715-01A1 Project Title: Creating Medicare and Medicaid Research Files to Augment Census Survey Data
PI Information: Name Title MACURDY, THOMAS E. tmac@acumenllc.com MANAGING MEMBER Abstract: DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This STTR proposal to the National Institute on Aging (NIA) requests funding to expand the capabilities of the Medicare Research Information Center (MedRIC) recently established by Acumen, LLC with earlier support from NIA. The purpose of MedRIC is to facilitate the acquisition and linking of data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to participants of surveys and registries sponsored by NIA and other related federal agencies, and to advance the use of these data for research and public policy. By expanding the capabilities of MedRIC, Acumen hopes to establish an infrastructure capable of vastly reducing the costs and burdens that researchers must currently bear to acquire and use different sources of administrative data from CMS. To date MedRIC's activities have focused on linking functional research files derived from Medicare enrollment and claims files to surveys and registries. The aim of this STTR project is to expand these linked files beyond Medicare to incorporate Medicaid enrollment and claims files, and to develop a strategy for partnering with the U.S. Census Bureau to create research supplements from CMS administrative files matched to four prominent Census Bureau surveys. In order to meet the goals for this project, Phase I will accomplish seven specific tasks. These are: formalizing arrangements with CMS to add Medicaid enrollment and claims files to the inventory of MedRIC - with the goal of creating research extract that are linkable to Census Bureau survey data, developing an approach for linking information about beneficiaries across these files, conducting a pilot project to demonstrate the effectiveness of this linking approach, working with CMS and the Census Bureau to establish data privacy and confidentiality protocols, completing plans for the creation of several "standardized" research data structures processed from the raw CMS administrative files and formulated to supply most of the needs of researchers and policy analysts, formulating plans for extensive data documentation, and preparing plans for expanding MedRIC computer infrastructure needed for this data storage and extraction. By completing these seven tasks and successfully expanding the capabilities of MedRIC, this project will vastly relieve the burden that researchers and policy analysts currently face as they attempt to fully understand patterns of health care utilization and expenditures among Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries. This proposal, which is a resubmission of our previous STTR proposal, has been amended to address reviewers' comments and critiques.
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Institution: ACUMEN, LLC 500 AIRPORT BLVD, STE 365 BURLINGAME, CA 940101936 Fiscal Year: 2007 Department: Project Start: 01-SEP-2007 Project End: 31-MAR-2008 ICD: NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING IRG: ZRG1