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Deborah N. Peikes
Senior Researcher
Deborah Peikes is a senior researcher at Mathematica Policy Research. She has technical and substantive expertise in studying how to improve the effectiveness of care coordination and disease management for people with chronic illnesses; delivery of primary care through medical homes; and health, employment, and social integration of beneficiaries with severe disabilities.
Peikes currently serves as the project director and/or principal investigator of a foundational study of medical homes for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; a project designing and evaluating medical home pilots for UnitedHealth; evaluations of care coordination for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Health Care Financing and Organization, and the Medicare Chronic Care Practice Research Network; and a study of Medicare Advantage for Aetna. She also helped design a medical home demonstration for CMS.
She also plays a lead role in evaluating the effect of the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) provision of insurance and employment supports to uninsured Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) beneficiaries. She has been principal investigator for studies that involved (1) designing an SSA-funded project to improve the employment outcomes, health, and functioning of SSDI beneficiaries; and (2) evaluating the SSA-funded State Partnership Initiative, which tested employment supports and benefits counseling in 12 states.
Peikes was recently the first author of an article on the effects of care coordination on Medicare beneficiaries in the Journal of the American Medical Association, and has written on and spoken widely about care coordination, primary care, and disability policy. The JAMA article was awarded Best Paper recently by both AcademyHealth and the National Institute for Health Care Management.
Peikes teaches a graduate class on program evaluation at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. She holds an M.P.A. in economic policy and a Ph.D. in public policy from Princeton University.
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- Areas of Expertise
- Key Projects
- Professional Activities
- Publications
- Improving the effectiveness of care coordination and disease management for people with chronic illnesses
- Delivery of primary care through medical homes
- Health, employment, and social integration of beneficiaries with severe disabilities
- Establishing Federal Resources to Support the Patient-Centered Medical Home Concept
- Evaluation Design for the UnitedHealth Group Medical Home Pilot
- Medicare Chronic Care Practice Research Network
- “The Business Case for Accurate Data on Quality and Savings in Medical Home Programs.” Philadelphia, PA: Second National Medical Home Summit (March 2010)
- "Early Evaluations of the Medical Home: Building on a Promising Start." The American Journal of Managed Care (February 2012)
- "Organizing Care for Complex Patients in the Patient-Centered Medical Home." Annals of Family Medicine (January/February 2012)
- "Building the Evidence Base for the Medical Home: What Sample and Sample Size Do Studies Need?" (October 2011)