Expanding Healthcare Research Capacities through the Integration of Medicaid and

描述（由申请人提供）：本STTR申请请求资助，以扩大Acumen LLC的医疗保险/医疗补助研究信息中心（MedRIC）的能力。为了提高公共政策研究可用数据的质量，MedRIC促进从医疗保险和医疗补助服务中心（CMS）获取数据，以参与由国家老龄化研究所（NIA）赞助的调查和登记。通过将管理和调查数据链接到一个有凝聚力的结构中，Acumen将大大降低研究人员目前为获取和使用CMS管理数据而承担的财务和时间成本。虽然MedRIC已经将NIA调查数据与医疗保险登记和索赔文件联系起来，但该项目将加强这些努力，包括与医疗补助索赔数据库的联系。通过成功地扩大medicic的能力，该项目将大大减轻研究人员和政策分析人员在调查低收入个人、儿童和孕妇的医疗保健利用、质量和支出模式时所面临的负担。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This STTR 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.