Laura Pomeranz joined ResDAC in November 2023 as a Data Processing Associate. She has studied Public Health Education and Promotion through St Catherine University and Rasmussen University. Her previous experience includes elementary education in various capacities.
Lex Grundorf joined ResDAC in November 2023. After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Florida, he worked in office management for a psychological clinic and in administration for facilities operations at the University of Florida. After moving to Minnesota, he supported senior research faculty in the Division of Infectious Diseases and International Medicine at the University of Minnesota.
The Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Patient Assessment Instrument (IRF-PAI) is collected on all Medicare patients who receive services from an inpatient rehabilitation unit or hospital. The data collected for IRF-PAI are used to measure quality of care.
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This video is one segment in a series of videos from ResDAC’s Introduction to using Medicare Fee-for-Service (FFS) Data for Research.
CMS is pleased to announce the availability of the Enrollee-Level External Data Gathering Environment (EDGE) Limited Data Set (LDS) for the 2021 benefit year to requesters who seek the data for research purposes.
CMS is pleased to announce the release of the Preliminary 2021 Medicare Advantage (MA, also known as Part C) Encounter Research Identifiable Files (RIFs). Beginning with 2019 data, CMS releases a “Preliminary” version of the Medicare Advantage Encounter RIFs for each service year to give researchers earlier access to Encounter data in the research file format.
The Medicaid and CHIP TAF (T-MSIS Analytic File) Demographic and Eligibility (DE) file contains one record for every individual eligible for and enrolled in Medicaid or CHIP for at least one day during the file calendar year.
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This video is one segment in a series of videos from ResDAC’s Introduction to the Use of the Medicare Encounter Data for Research.
This presentation highlights the strengths and limitations of Medicare Advantage Encounter data, highlighting which are unique to encounter data and which belong to all administrative data analysis. Dr. Huckfeldt also presents an example of a method for overcoming one limitation - the lack of MA encounter payment information - using FFS prices. Considerations when analyzing the data are also discussed.
This video is one segment in a series of videos from ResDAC’s Introduction to the Use of the Medicare Encounter Data for Research.
