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Marsha Gold
Senior Fellow
Marsha Gold is a senior fellow at Mathematica in Washington, DC. She is a nationally known expert on health care delivery and financing, especially in managed care and public programs such as Medicare and Medicaid. Her expertise covers trends in the organization and financing of medical care and its implications for access to care.
Current studies include the Medicare Advantage Monitoring Program, which has been tracking the use of private plans in Medicare, the Global Assessment of HITECH for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, and several studies that aim to monitor emerging models (e.g. accountable care) and support policymakers (e.g. the Medicaid Access and Payment Commission). Recent projects have involved support for Mathematica’s work with AHRQ on the patient centered medical home, analysis of the Consensus Development Process used by the National Quality Forum, and evaluations of the National Health Plan Collaborative to reduce racial and ethnic disparities.
Gold has focused on synthesizing and translating data to better support health policy development. Her work has been funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Kaiser Family Foundation, the Agency for Health Care Quality and Research, the Commonwealth Fund, the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and others.
Gold publishes widely in peer-reviewed journals, sits on a number of expert and technical panels, and serves as an expert resource for policymakers, other researchers, and the media. She is on the editorial board of national journals, including Health Affairs and Health Services Research, and she has served on the board of directors of AcademyHealth. Before joining Mathematica in 1992, she was director of research and analysis for the Group Health Association of America. She has a Sc.D. in health services/evaluation research from Harvard University, School of Public Health.
Staff Profile
- Areas of Expertise
- Key Projects
- Professional Activities
- Publications
- Health care delivery and financing
- Medicare and Medicaid
- Access to care
- Medicaid Affordable Care Organizations and Managed Care Projects
- Support to the Medicare and Children’s Health Insurance Program Payment and Access Commission
- Monitoring Medicare Advantage and Prescription Drug Plans
- Elected Member, National Association for Social Insurance
- Editorial Board, Health Affairs and Health Services Research
- Chair, Research Insights from Organizational and Market Research Advisory Committee, AcademyHealth
- "Obtaining Providers' 'Buy-In' and Establishing Effective Means of Information Exchange Will be Critical to HITECH's Success." Health Affairs (March 2012)
- "Medicare Advantage: Lessons for Medicare's Future." New England Journal of Medicine (March 2012)
- "Medicare Advantage 2012 Spotlight: Plan Availability and Premiums" Medicare Policy Data Spotlight (November 2011)