Overview:
With funds available through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) is developing a multi-payer claims database (MPCD) to support the growing effort in comparative effectiveness research (CER). HHS contracted with Avalere Health to develop three to six strategies for creating, operating, and maintaining the MPCD for CER purposes and to recommend one strategy for implementation. The results of this work will be used to inform the second stage of this project— the implementation phase—which will be conducted under separate contract.
Key findings from each work stream as well as our final recommendation and implementation plan are summarized in this paper. All work was completed over the course of fourteen weeks from January 21, 2010 to April 30, 2010.
Author(s):
Avalere Health
Contacts:
Nora Hoban, Avalere
Citation:
Avalere, Multi-Payer Claims Database/ Task 12: Summary Report and Recommended Design Option, May 2010.
