Creating Medicare and Medicaid Research Files to Augment Census Survey Data

描述(由申请人提供)：这份提交给国家老龄研究所(NIA)的STTR提案要求提供资金，以扩大Acumen LLC在NIA早期支持下最近建立的医疗保险研究信息中心(MEDRIC)的能力。MEDRIC的目的是促进从医疗保险和医疗补助服务中心(CMS)获得行政数据，并将其链接到由NIH和其他联邦机构赞助的调查和登记的参与者。通过扩大MEDRIC的能力，ACUMEN将建立一个基础设施，能够极大地降低研究人员获取和使用CMS管理数据以及联邦支持的流行调查/登记所必须承担的成本和负担。到目前为止，Medric的活动重点是将来自Medicare数据的功能研究文件与NIA支持的调查联系起来。该项目的目的是扩大S医生的工作范围，将美国人口普查收集的数据集纳入其中。与美国人口普查局合作，这一STTR项目将制定一项战略，根据联邦医疗保险和医疗补助管理文件创建研究补充资料，与几项著名的人口普查调查相匹配，这些调查纳入了满足第13条数据分发限制性禁令所需的协议。 为了实现该项目的目标，第一阶段将完成八项具体任务：(1)建立数据访问和隐私协议，满足人口普查和CMS的保密要求；(2)确定与人口普查一致的联邦医疗保险和医疗补助数据源之间有关受益人信息的替代方法？(3)评估为人口普查CPS、ACS、NHIS和SIPP执行联邦医疗保险/医疗补助数据链接的优点；(4)使用联邦医疗保险和/或医疗补助文件开展一项试点项目，评估与人口普查兼容的链接方法的有效性；(5)制定研究数据结构发展计划，将来自联邦医疗保险/医疗补助行政数据源的信息纳入人口普查调查文件；(6)制定广泛的数据文档计划，以使构建的变量易于研究人员理解和检索；(7)调查将联邦医疗保险/医疗补助信息整合到人口普查中的各种选择。正在开发的新项目，以便于通过基于网络的应用程序访问机密数据，这些应用程序限制了结果的报告；以及(8)为S医疗集团制定了数据存储和提取所需的计算机基础设施计划。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This STTR proposal to the National Institute on Aging (NIA) requests funding to expand the capabilities of the Medicare Research Information Center (MedRIC) recently established by Acumen LLC with earlier support from NIA. The purpose of MedRIC is to facilitate the acquisition and linking of administrative data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to participants of surveys and registries sponsored by NIH and other federal agencies. Through expanding the capacities of MedRIC, Acumen will establish an infrastructure capable of vastly reducing the costs and burdens that researchers must bear to attain and use CMS administrative data in conjunction with popular federally-supported surveys/registries. To date, MedRIC's activities have focused on linking functional research files derived from Medicare data to NIA-supported surveys. The aim of this SBIR/STTR project is to expand MedRIC?s efforts to include data sets collected by the U.S. Census. In partnership with the U.S. Census Bureau, this STTR project will develop a strategy for creating research supplements based on Medicare and Medicaid administrative files matched to several prominent Census surveys that incorporate protocols necessary for satisfying restrictive Title 13 prohibitions on data distribution. To meet the goals of this project, Phase I will accomplish eight specific tasks: (1) establish protocols for data access and privacy, satisfying the confidentiality requirements of Census and CMS; (2) identify alternative methodologies for linking information about beneficiaries across Medicare and Medicaid data sources consistent with Census? special protocols; (3) evaluate the merits of carrying out linkages of Medicare/Medicaid data for the Census surveys CPS, ACS, NHIS, and SIPP; (4) conduct a pilot project assessing the effectiveness of the Census-compatible linking methodologies using Medicare and/or Medicaid files; (5) produce plans for the development of research data structures that incorporate information from Medicare/Medicaid administrative data sources into Census survey files; (6) formulate plans for extensive data documentation to make constructed variables easily understood and retrievable by researchers; (7) investigate options for integrating Medicare/Medicaid information into Census? newly-established projects that are being developed to facilitate access to confidential data through web-based applications that restrict the reporting of results; and (8) prepare plans for MedRIC?s computer infrastructure needed for data storage and extraction.