Geographic Adjustment in Medicare Payment Phase II: Implications for Access, Quality, and Efficiency (2012) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix F: Committee and Staff Biographies
Appendix F: Committee and Staff Biographies
Pages 195-208
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His current research interests include alcohol use prevention, long-term care, medical malpractice, and costeffectiveness analyses of medical technologies. Professor Sloan also has a longstanding interest in hospitals, health care financing, and health manpower.
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Prior to that, he was a senior analyst at the Congressional Budget Office, a principal research associate in the health policy center at the Urban Institute, and deputy director of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (and its predecessor, the Prospective Payment Assessment Commission) from 1988 through 1999.
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In 2005, he was appointed to a 3-year term on the National Advisory Council to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. He received a Generalist Physician Faculty Scholar Award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and a Cancer Control Career Development Award for Primary Care Physicians from the American Cancer Society.
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Other duties include serving as corporate monitor on two Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contracts, and as project director on one Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality IDIQ contract, while continuing to conduct research on a range of health policy issues.
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Dr. Pohl's research has focused on health care quality and outcomes, cost of care in nurse-managed health centers, disparities, and health informatics in safety-net practices and has been funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Health Resources and Services Administration, and private foundations.
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Prior to joining GAO, he served with the National Health Policy Forum of George Washington University, Covance Health Economics and Outcomes Services, Inc., and as deputy director of the Prospective Payment Assessment Commission (now the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission)
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Ms. Wynn led major Medicare regulatory initiatives, including the Medicare hospital inpatient capital prospective payment system, the hospital outpatient prospective payment system, the resource-based practice expense for physician services, and implementation of the Medicare+Choice program.
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Dr. Zuckerman's research on Medicare physician payment includes several studies that developed the geographic practice cost indices used in the fee schedule for physician services, estimated the extent of the volume offset in the market for physician services, analyzed the growth in the volume and intensity of physician services, and outlined an approach to Medicare assignment that could avoid mandatory assignment of all claims yet protect low-income beneficiaries.
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During the 1990s, he submitted recommendations to HCFA regarding updating the physician malpractice insurance component of the Medicare Geographic Practice Cost Index. Recent work includes examining alternative methods for configuring payment localities for the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule and an examination of the relative merits of the Bureau of Labor Statistics versus hospital-specific wage data for the IPPS area wage index.
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He assisted with the analyses of Medicare's hospital wage index for the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission in 20062007. Alton Wright, B.S., joined RTI in 2009 as a public health analyst in RTI's Health Care Financing and Payment Program.
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Kathleen Haddad, Ph.D., senior program officer for the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Study of Geographic Adjustment Factors in Medicare Payment, is a health services researcher with extensive background in Medicare claims data analysis, Medicare payment systems, Medicare quality, chronic disease management, health insurance policy, and geriatric mental health.
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Besides assisting on the Geographic Adjustment Factors project, she worked on the Breast Cancer and the Environment: The Scientific Methodology, Research Findings, and Future Directions study funded by Susan G Komen for the Cure; the Defining and Revising an Essential Health Benefits Package for Qualified Health Plans study; and the Expert Panel on Access to Medicare Part D Routine Vaccines project.
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In 2007, he was also appointed director of the IOM Board on Health Care Services. During his work at the IOM, Dr.
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