Expanding Healthcare Research Capacities through the Integration of Medicaid and

描述(由申请人提供)：这份STTR申请申请资金用于扩大Acumen LLC的医疗保险/医疗补助研究信息中心(MEDRIC)的能力。为了提高可用于公共政策研究的数据的质量，Medric促进从医疗保险和医疗补助服务中心(CMS)向由国家老龄研究所(NIA)赞助的调查和登记的参与者获取数据。通过将管理和调查数据连接成一个连贯的结构，Acumen将显著降低研究人员目前获取和使用CMS管理数据所承担的财务和时间成本。尽管Medric已经将NIA的调查数据与联邦医疗保险登记和索赔文件联系起来，但这个项目将加强这些努力，包括与医疗补助索赔数据库的联系。通过成功地扩展Medric的能力，该项目将显著减轻研究人员和政策分析师在调查低收入个人、儿童和孕妇的医疗保健利用率、质量和支出模式时面临的负担。 公共卫生相关性：为了促进对收入和资源有限的患者进行更有效的公共政策研究，该项目将创建新的数据资源，将NIH调查数据与医疗补助索赔文件联系起来。这种集成不仅将为研究人员提供更高质量的信息，还将降低NIH资助的研究人员访问和使用这些关联数据的成本。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This STTR application requests funding to expand the capabilities of Acumen LLC's Medicare/Medicaid Research Information Center (MedRIC). To advance the quality of the data available for public policy research, MedRIC facilitates the acquisition of data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to participants of surveys and registries sponsored by the National Institute on Aging (NIA). By linking administrative and survey data into a cohesive structure, Acumen will significantly reduce the financial and time costs that researchers currently bear to acquire and use CMS administrative data. Although MedRIC has already linked NIA survey data to Medicare enrollment and claims files, this project will augment these efforts to include linkages to Medicaid claims databases. By successfully expanding MedRIC's capabilities, this project will significantly reduce the burden that researchers and policy analysts face as they investigate health care utilization, quality, and expenditure patterns among low- income individuals, children, and pregnant women. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: To promote more effective public policy research on patients with limited income and resources, this project will create new data resources linking NIH survey data with Medicaid claims 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.