Creating Research Files from CMS Data for Integration with Survey Data

描述（由申请人提供）：这份STTR提交给国家老龄研究所（NIA）的提案要求获得资金，以扩大最近由Acumen， LLC在NIA的支持下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）获取数据并将其与NIA和其他相关联邦机构赞助的调查和登记的参与者联系起来，并促进这些数据在研究和公共政策中的使用。通过扩展MedRIC的功能，Acumen将大大减少研究人员目前必须承担的获取和使用CMS管理数据的财务和时间成本。迄今为止，医疗保险中心的活动已经将医疗保险登记和索赔文件与NIA调查和登记联系起来。该STTR项目的目的是扩大项目的范围，将养老院居民的国家评估记录纳入长期护理最低数据集（MDS），并将家庭保健患者的国家评估记录纳入结果和评估工具集（OASIS）。通过成功扩展MedRIC的能力，该项目将极大地减轻研究人员和政策分析师目前在调查疗养院和家庭健康患者的医疗保健利用、质量和支出模式时所面临的负担。

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 support from NIA. The purpose of MedRIC is to facilitate the acquisition and linking of data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to participants of surveys and registries sponsored by NIA and other related federal agencies, and to advance the use of these data for research and public policy. By expanding MedRIC's capabilities, Acumen will vastly reduce the financial and time costs that researchers must currently bear to acquire and use CMS administrative data. To date, MedRIC's activities have already linked Medicare enrollment and claims files to NIA surveys and registries. The aim of this STTR project is to expand the scope of the project to include the national assessment records for nursing home residents in the Long-term Care Minimum Data Set (MDS) and for home health patients in the Outcomes and Assessment Instrument Set (OASIS). By successfully expanding MedRIC's capabilities, this project will vastly relieve the burden that researchers and policy analysts currently face as they investigate health care utilization, quality, and expenditure patterns for nursing home and home health patients. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: To promote more effective public policy research on patients receiving home health and nursing home care, this project will create new data resources linking NIH survey data with Medicare patient assessment files. This integration will not only provide researchers higher quality information, but will also reduce the cost for NIH-funded researchers to access and use this linked data.