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Mai N. Hubbard
Senior Researcher
Mai Hubbard is a senior health researcher whose research interests lie in health care services utilization and spending trends. She also has expertise in health care quality indicators.
Hubbard, who joined Mathematica in 2009, is a deputy project director on two projects focused on developing value-based physician payments and provider feedback designed to reduce health care expenditures and improve health care quality. She also served as the principal investigator on a project that compared hospital utilization, expenditures, and care coordination of Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries with atrial fibrillation to beneficiaries with other chronic conditions.
Her research informed an evaluation of recent health care spending trends in Massachusetts conducted for the Division of Health Care Finance and Policy. Hubbard also developed and produced composite hospital quality measures for acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, pneumonia, and surgical safety for public reporting by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
Before joining Mathematica, Hubbard held research and teaching positions at the University of North Carolina and was a teacher at the Walden Autism Research Center. She has authored book chapters in the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences and published in the American Journal of Medical Quality. She is a member of the American Society of Health Economists and has presented at its conference. She holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Less Detail More DetailStaff Profile
- Areas of Expertise
- Key Projects
- Professional Activities
- Publications
- Value-based physician payment modifiers
- Medicare quality measurement
- Maternal and child health
- Development and Calculation of the Value-Based Payment Modifier/ Production of the Quality and Resource Use Reports or Physician Feedback
- Development of Resource Use Reports for Medicare Fee-for-Service Claims
- Production and Implementation of Hospital Outcome and Efficiency Measures
- Analysis of Health Care Provider and Health Care Payer Costs and Cost Trends
- Member, American Economic Association
- Member, American Society of Health Economists
- "Association Between Outpatient Visits Following Hospital Discharge and Readmissions Among Medicare Beneficiaries with Atrial Fibrillation and Other Chronic Conditions" American Journal of Medical Quality (July 2013)
- "Reporting Period and Reliability of AHRQ, CMS 30-Day and HAC Quality Measures" (November 2011)