Creating Medicare and Medicaid Research Files to Augment Census 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早期支持下建立的医疗保险研究信息中心（MedRIC）的能力。MedRIC的目的是促进医疗保险和医疗补助服务中心（CMS）的行政数据的获取和链接，以参与由NIH和其他联邦机构赞助的调查和登记。通过扩大MedRIC的能力，Acumen将建立一个基础设施，能够大大降低研究人员必须承担的成本和负担，以获取和使用CMS管理数据，并结合流行的联邦政府支持的调查/登记。迄今为止，MedRIC的活动主要集中在将来自Medicare数据的功能性研究文件与nia支持的调查联系起来。这个SBIR/STTR项目的目的是扩大医学和医疗保健？美国政府努力将美国人口普查收集的数据集纳入其中。该STTR项目将与美国人口普查局合作，制定一项战略，以医疗保险和医疗补助管理文件为基础，创建研究补充文件，这些文件与几项重要的人口普查调查相匹配，并纳入必要的协议，以满足第13条对数据分发的限制性禁令。

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.