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View the video from the July 2012 APPAM forum, Allies, Adversaries, or Strange Bedfellows? The Relationship Between Research, Politics, and Policy.
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Senior fellow David Stapleton testified before the House Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Social Security on three key topics regarding Social Security disability reform: evidence for why the disability support system is not working; potential reforms that could ensure people with disabilities lead fulfilling lives while also reining in both state and federal expenditures; and suggestions for Congress regarding Social Security policy reform. View the recording.
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Brown Presents on Care Coordination at Long-Term Care Commission Hearing
Mathematica’s Randall Brown recently presented research findings on effective care coordination programs for high-risk individuals with chronic health care needs at a public hearing of the bipartisan Commission on Long-Term Care. Based on this Health Affairs article, Brown identified six common characteristics for successful care coordination that can reduce hospitalizations for high-risk patients over multiple years including frequent in-person contact (in addition to telephone contact) by care coordinators with patients and their providers, robust medication management, and comprehensive transitional care when patients are hospitalized. Brown concluded his remarks by reminding commissioners that in order to increase likelihood of success, these approaches are not one-size fits all and will need to vary across subpopulations. Click here for a copy of the presentation.
Center on Health Care Effectiveness June Forum
Using Performance Measures to Promote Evidence-Based Health Care
Using Performance Measures to Promote Evidence-Based Health Care: Challenges and OpportunitiesJune 2013
For many years, Mathematica has developed, tested, and implemented a wide range of health care measures intended to promote better clinical practice thereby containing costs, while improving quality. A panel of leading health care and performance measure experts discussed intermediate and long-term approaches to strengthening the relationship between measures of health care performance and one of the many goals of these measures—to support evidence-based clinical practice.
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- Providing More Training Money, Counseling Would Yield Significant Net Benefits to Unemployed Workers, Government, and Society (April 26, 2012)
- Transfer Incentives Help Bring Highest-Performing Teachers to Low-Achieving Schools in Seven Cities (April 3, 2012)
- Report Reveals Promising Practices of High-Impact CMOs (March 26, 2012)
- Teacher Incentive Program in Chicago (March 7, 2012)
- Provider Support and Electronic Exchange Among Factors Critical to Successful Integration of Information
- New Review Evaluates Potential of Medical Home as Effective Primary Care Model (February 29, 2012)
- Mathematica’s Marsha Gold Provides a “Perspective” on Medicare’s Future in the New England Journal of Medicine (February 22, 2012)
- New Analysis Reveals CMO Impacts On High School Graduation, College Enrollment (January 9, 2012)
- Youth Transition Demonstration (YTD) Evaluation Finds Positive Impacts on Employment in Florida and West Virginia
- Expanding the Toolbox: Novel and Underused Methods to Study and Refine Patient-Centered Medical Home Models
- Health Services Research: Increasing Value, Improving Care
- Incentivizing the Use of Electronic Health Records
- About Us: Collecting Information, Conducting Research, Informing Policy
- Center for Studying Disability Policy
- Data Quality Consulting Group
- Evaluating and Disseminating Innovations in Education Programs and Policy
- Larger Training Awards and Counseling Improve Cost Effectiveness, Long-Term Outcomes of Individual Training Accounts
- Performance Management Group
- Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)
- Understanding Practices in Residential Treatment Facilities for Youth
Center for Improving Research Evidence:
Systematic Reviews as a Tool in Evidence-Based Decision Making: Improving Research and Informing Practice (January 30, 2013)
Measuring Performance of Teachers and Doctors: What's Doable and Is It Useful? (June 2012)
Center for Studying Disability Policy:
New Data on Efforts to Reduce Hospitalization and Nursing Home Care Among High-Risk Medicaid Beneficiaries (June 6, 2013)
Young Social Security Disability Beneficiaries and Early Intervention to Increase Employment (April 2013)
Growing Pains: How Disability, Risky Behaviors, and Expectations During Youth Influence Early Adult Outcomes
(February 2013)
SSA's Disability Programs: New Findings on the Dynamics of Employment and Health (December 2012)
Obstacles and Opportunities: The U.S. Economy, State VR Programs, and SSDI Beneficiaries
(October 2012)
Coordinating Care and Services for Dual Eligibles: Bringing Medicare and Medicaid Together for People with High Needs and High Costs (June 2012)
The Future for Young Americans with Disabilities: Economic Success or Dependence? (May 2012)
Causes of the Chasm: Factors that Impact Employment Among Persons with Disabilities (March 2012)
The Transition to 21st-Century Disability Policy in an Era of Fiscal Austerity: A Road Map (January 2012)
Center on Health Care Effectiveness:
Using Performance Measures to Promote Evidence-Based Health Care: Challenges and Opportunities (June 2013)
Expanding the Toolbox: Using Methodological Approaches from Varied Disciplines for Health Services Research (May 2, 2013)
New Evidence on Incentives for Electronic Health Records in Medicare (November 2012)
Paying Wisely: Using Incentive Reforms to Reduce Costs and Improve Patient Outcomes (October 2012)
Implementing the Patient-Centered Medical Home: Remaining Questions and Challenges (June 7, 2012)
A New Tool for Rapid-Cycle Comparative Effectiveness Research: The Promise of Orthogonal Design (April 2012)
Early Childhood:
The Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS) Evaluation Toolkit
Home Visiting Evidence of Effectiveness
Education:
What Works Clearinghouse
Family Support:
"Housing for Youth Aging Out of Foster Care: A Review of the Literature and Program Typology" (April 2012)
Disability:
"Post-Institutional Services of MFP Participants: Use and Costs of Community Services and Supports." The National Evaluation of the Money Follows the Person (MFP) Demonstration Grant Program, Reports from the Field #9 (February 2012)
"How Many Disability Beneficiaries Forgo Cash Benefits Because of Work? Evidence from a New Measure." Issue Brief 12-03 (February 2012)
"The Work Incentives Planning and Assistance Program: Promoting Employment Among Social Security Disability Beneficiaries." Issue Brief 12-02 (February 2012)
"Service Providers' Experiences Under the Revised Ticket to Work Regulations." Issue Brief 12-04 (February 2012)
"A Roadmap to a 21st-Century Disability Policy." Issue Brief, 12-01 (January 2012)
Health:
"Health-e-App Public Access: A New Online Path to Children's Health Care Coverage in California. An Overview of the First Year" (March 2012)
"Medicare Advantage 2012 Spotlight: Plan Availability and Premiums" (November 2011)
Nutrition:
"Reaching Those in Need: State Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Participation Rates in 2009" (December 2011)