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<h1>Experience in Medicare Data Analysis </h1>
<h3>Why Analyze Medicare Data? </h3>
<p>Medicare is the single largest payer for health care services in the United States, accounting for 17.1% of national health expenditures in 2005. The core of Medicare’s beneficiary cohort is America’s elderly population, who with their use of health care services and rapidly growing numbers represent a significant aspect of national healthcare and associated costs. Medicare payment policies also often serve as benchmarks for other public sector programs and for the private sector.</p>
<p>Medicare data provide the most comprehensive available picture of health care practice and expenditure patterns associated with this critical cohort of health care consumers, and thus constitute an indispensable source of insight into health care provider behavior and cost drivers. The ABS team has analyzed Medicare data to accomplish several objectives: </p>
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<li>Assess the occurrence and natural history of acute and chronic diseases </li>
<li>Understand the characteristics of patients with certain diseases or who undergo certain procedures </li>
<li>Evaluate physician and hospital practice patterns over time and across patient groups and geographic regions </li>
<li>Evaluate the cost of acute or chronic diseases, and differences in costs over time, across patient groups or across geographic regions</li>
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<h2>Extent of Available Medicare Data </h2>
<p>Encrypted public use files provided by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) are available for our analysis on a random 5% sample of the Medicare population, who enter the database upon becoming eligible for Medicare and exit upon death. These data allow us to track a captured cohort of approximately 1.5 – 2 million patients 65 and older over many years and across many settings of care. Hospital inpatient, hospital outpatient, and physician claims data files are available for 1991 through 2006 as well as data on services related to skilled nursing facilities, home health agencies, and durable medical equipment.</p>
<p>Although these data cannot take the place of detailed medical records, they provide extensive information on patient principal diagnosis, comorbidities, and demographic characteristics as well as medical and surgical procedures done for diagnosis and treatment. Data are captured on services covered by Medicare, and this includes the use of medical devices and diagnostics as well as inpatient and physician-administered drugs.</p>
<h2>ABS Experience </h2>
<p>Members of the ABS team have extensive experience analyzing Medicare data, publishing findings, and using the results to help plan prospective clinical trials and registries as well as to provide strategic planning support for our pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device sponsors. Our researchers’ Medicare experience includes work sponsored by the U.S. government as well as by corporate sponsors. Dr. Chris L. Pashos managed the Acute Myocardial Infarction Patient Outcomes Research Team (AMI PORT, 1989-1996) and contributed to the early methods literature on how to analyze and interpret Medicare data. Dr. Won Chan Lee has analyzed Medicare data in multiple therapeutic areas, particularly oncology and cardiovascular medicine, in collaboration with leading clinicians. Luke Boulanger has conducted extensive analysis of SEER Medicare data. Dr. Brooke Harrow has analyzed Medicare claims and cost report data for numerous evaluations of prospective payment systems and their impact on health care providers.</p>
<h2>Indications </h2>
<p>Medicare data cover all diseases and therapeutic areas of the U.S. population insured by Medicare. As shown below, ABS has the most experience in cancer, cardiovascular, and women’s health.</p>
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